a r t i s t : The Evenings
t i t l e : Firefighters-Dying
d a t e : 2006
l a b e l : Unlabel (un52006/30)
g e n r e : Electronic
r l s. d a t e : Mar/2007
t r a c k s : 12
b i t r a t e : VBRkbps
s i z e : 68,2 MB
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Welcome to unlabel series52! This is number 30, released on
July 24th, 2006.
Artist Info:
The Evenings - The Evenings make uptempo electronic rock
music. The band formed in 2002 and for the first eighteen
months of its life did not perform twice with the same lineup
-- musicians, dancers, VJs and artists from their home town of
Oxford joined the band for increasingly flamboyant stage
shows, earning the band a strong local following and an
excellent live reputation. The lineup settled into its current
form in early 2004, since when The Evenings have supported the
likes of Gravenhurst, Trans Am, The Faint and 65daysofstatic,
as well as serving breakfast to a packed audience at 2004's
Truck festival. They describe their music as
"eclectronimentica", and have been compared to acts as diverse
as Squarepusher, Neu, David Bowie, Aphex Twin, Ian Dury and
The Blockheads, The Polyphonic Spree, Boards of Canada, The
Rock of Travolta, Daft Punk, Future Pilot AKA, The Flaming
Lips and Ultravox. Mark Wilden and Jo Edge have also played
with eeebleee, Philip Oakley also plays with Borderville and
Sebastian Reynolds also plays with Keyboard Choir.
The series52 Concept:
While chatting on the phone back in September 2005 the two
people who run Unlabel decided to do this...
During 2006 Unlabel is releasing a series of 52 CD albums -
one every week of the year, all by people who aren't connected
with us (i.e. none of our regular artists), to include all
genres that we cover from the usual guitar based music -
acoustic and alt. country to post-rock / math-rock, hardcore
and beyond, piano, electronica / idm through to ambient,
glitch, microsound, gabber, industrial / noise, soundscapes
and anything else that takes our fancy, each in a strictly
limited edition of just 100 copies.
We decided to do something slightly different - instead of
focusing on local artists, as has been traditional with
Unlabel, we opened this project up to submissions from all
over the world. It is entirely separate from the usual
catalogue of releases and will run as a new offshoot of the
unlabel family.
The idea is to release work by unknown artists who may not
otherwise be recognised at all alongside a handful of
carefully selected guests, including a few names which may be
familiar due to their other releases elsewhere. We receive
quite a few demos these days from all over the world and it
will be good to work with some of these people and to document
music (albeit in a small way) that may not otherwise be
noticed at all...
Each 'album' in this project includes at least 8 tracks OR at
least 30 minutes of material and obviously quality control is
being kept to a high standard.
All releases are packaged in distinctive matching artwork with
the musical artists' own image on the front and two images
from Unlabel on the back - including one of a landscape
photographed every week over the 12 months of 2006 and all
pictures are professionally printed on high gloss photo paper.
Each sleeve is hand numbered and every CD includes a diary
page insert for the relevant week of the year, which can be
filled in and returned to Unlabel to win a unique prize. There
are also inserts from the artists and Unlabel making each one
of these fine discs a collector's item.
http://www.unlabel.net/series52.htm
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01-When Adults Act Like The Children They Really Are [01:35]
02-Fizzy Piss [01:52]
03-Corporate Brainstorming [05:12]
04-See For Pt 1 [03:36]
05-See For Pt 2 [03:15]
06-Firefighting [03:29]
07-Chicken and King [04:52]
08-At Me [02:37]
09-Last Night (Was Great) [09:15]
10-Taken Over The Skies [04:43]
11-Sometimes We Take Ourselves Too Seriously [08:13]
12-Epilogue [04:37]
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53:16 min