ARTiST: The Residents
TiTLE: Tweedles!
LABEL: Mute Records
GENRE: Indie
TiME: 61:20 min
SiZE: 87,5 MB
BiTRATE: VBRkbps
RiP DATE: Oct-28-2006
RELEASE DATE: Oct-30-2006
WEBSiTE: n/a
Track List:
01. Dreams 03:55
02. Almost Perfect 04:06
03. Mark Of The Male 02:15
04. Life 03:38
05. Isolation 04:22
06. Stop Signs 06:05
07. Elevation 04:56
08. Forgiveness 01:28
09. Insincere 02:08
10. The Perfect Lover 03:32
11. Brown Cow 05:19
12. Sometimes 03:06
13. Ugly (At The End) 03:20
14. Keep Talkin' 03:42
15. Shame On Me 06:51
16. Susie Smiles 02:37
Release Notes:
Tweedles is the follow up to 2005Æs Animal Lover, of
which the Metro newspaper said ôThe Residents have
been disregarding genres and musical conventions for
30 years and this album, astonishing in its range of
styles and references, shows no sign of them slowing
down or drying upö.
Tweedles will be available as a limited edition
hardback book package with sleevenotes and
illustrations.
As we discovered in The Godfather, there are offers
one cannot refuse. In the fall of 2005 The Residents
got such an offer: a young gentleman in Romania had
built himself a state of the art recording studio
and had the wild dream of asking his favourite band,
The Residents to try it out. As it happened, The
Residents' own studio was undergoing a process known
as seismic upgrade (strengthening the building to
withstand a major earthquake) and the facility could
not be used for a year.
Fate had again stepped in and The Residents saw no
reason not to have a look at the studio. The group
boarded a jet for Bucharest in early 2006 with the
idea of recording a couple of tracks while taking a
nice vacation in a country they had never visited.
Since no ideas had been formed in advance as to what
would be recorded, they felt it was appropriate to
record everything during the trip, including the
jet's take off. Once on the plane and bored, ideas
started coming and soon The Residents were roughing
out an idea for a whole album.
The group's ultimate destination was not Bucharest,
but a town 400 kilometers away, Hunedoara. Hunedoara
is in the area of Romania known as Transylvania,
historically the home of Count Vlad III,
fictionalized by Bram Stoker as the vampire Dracula.
By the time they landed in Bucharest, they had
outlined an album about a "vampire" of sorts. Not a
Bela Lugosi vampire, but one that feasted on broken
hearts; a man who devoured the romantic emotions of
others as a source of power. A man who took the
stance that anyone who would stoop so low as to love
him was not worth loving in return.
As it turned out, the group fell in love with
Hunedoara and as they produced their story of sexual
compulsion, their impromptu recordings of street
musicians, church bells and a small traveling circus
with its strong Felliniesque presence, soon made it
into their electronic pieces. The Residents' product
manager at Mute happened to be Romanian and he had
connections with classical musicians in Bucharest.
As a result, The Film Orchestra of Bucharest
interpreted some of the group's electronic
compositions and these recordings were also
integrated into the new work.
Focussing less on harmonics and melody than their
previous release, Animal Lover, the new compositions
could be described as a patchwork of new and often
exotic textures. For the group, this patchwork was
the reflection of an often chaotic, but uniquely
immersive experience.