ARTIST: Stand
TITLE: Travel Light
LABEL: New World Music
GENRE: Indie
BITRATE: 182kbps avg
PLAYTIME: 0h 42m total
RELEASE DATE: 2006-11-00
RIP DATE: 2007-01-30
Track List
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1. Carousel 4:00
2. Low Culture 3:41
3. Days Gone 3:34
4. White Elephants 5:20
5. Who Made You Jesus 4:09
6. Dressed To Kill 3:40
7. Everything You Do Is Right 3:32
8. Slave To The Weekend 3:24
9. Time Flies 4:10
10. My Theory 3:36
11. Travel Light 3:24
Release Notes:
A story from front to back: 2006 After many months of sonic construction and
underground whispering, Dublin's Stand are about to release their fourth album
proper, ôTravel Lightö onto the world next November. Sessions were booked.
Release dates were nudged. Tracks were pulled apart limb from limb and put back
together in novel ways. What emerged can only be described as their strongest
body of songs to date. Mr. Walsh wore the producer hat, sifting through the do's
and dont's, letting the songs core breathe, giving a fine ôSlanö (Goodbye) to
tiresome layering. Kudos. The melodies carry the weight. This album finds Neil
and Alan in fine voice. Michael McCoy made sure tracks didn't need redoing
because the kick drum microphone was left unplugged. Chief engineer of the Hit
Factory NY, his craft, humour and tendency to an 18hr session kept spirits
afloat. The venues: Buffalo, Rhinebeck, Manhattan, NYC and Lexington KY. Work
started in a northern blizzard and finished under a southern sun. Newcomers
should note that this band have wavered their part in the corporate
merry-go-round. No one is wearing high-street garb. Free of making up PR sound
bites, reducing themselves to industry fodder they paved their own path on the
hard shoulder parallel to their mentors' highways. Imagine the tunesmith of Neil
Finn, the wide-open spaces of The Pink Floyd, the live emotion of Neil Young.
Listen to this record. Check out a live show. Only then will the penny drop.