ARTIST: Flight Of The Conchords
TITLE: The Distant Future
LABEL: Sub Pop
GENRE: Alternative
BITRATE: 172kbps avg
PLAYTIME: 0h 22m total
RELEASE DATE: 2007-08-07
RIP DATE: 2007-08-09
Track List
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1. Business Time 4:05
2. If You're Into It 1:45
3. I'm Not Crying 3:24
4. The Most Beautiful Girl In The 5:10
Room (Live)
5. Banter (Live) 3:32
6. Robots (Live) 4:59
Release Notes:
Herewith, Sub Pop's debut release from New Zealand's 4th most popular
folk-comedy duo (and, yes, okay, also current HBO phenoms), Flight of the
Conchords. The Distant Future EP includes Business Time, If You're Into It, and
Not Crying, as well as live versions of The Most Beautiful Girl in the Room and
Robots. Plus, there's live banter! We will be releasing a Flight of the
Conchords full-length recording sometime in early 2008.
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New Zealand's self-proclaimed "4th most popular guitar-based digi-bongo
acapella-rap-funk-comedy folk duo" got their start in Wellington. Bret McKenzie
and Jemaine Clement (musician/funnyman and funnyman/musician, respectively)
started crafting their unique, two-man comedy mΘlange in 2002, while the two of
them were living together at college. Overcome by a dream, in which a V
formation of Gibson Flying Vs resembled a gaggle of Concorde airplanes, the band
christened themselves Flight of the Conchords and began honing their act in the
local comedy and rock clubs around their town in the late '90s. By 2002, they
could be found playing such high-profile gigs as the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
When they returned to the fest in 2003, they were nominated for the Perrier
Award, thus making them "the almost award-winning 4th most popular guitar-based
digi-bongo acapella-rap-funk-comedy folk duo in New Zealand." Between those
gigs, Flight of the Conchords self-released the album Folk the World and, by
2005, was the subject of a six-part BBC Radio 2 broadcast series ù a largely
improvised affair in the vein of Spinal Tap and Tenacious D. Also in 2005, the
group landed a spot on HBO's Friday night series One Night Stand. In 2006,
Clement was featured in a series of humorous commercials for the U.S.-based
Outback Steakhouse restaurant chain, and later that year, the band penned a deal
with U.S. indie imprint Sub Pop. The label released the half-studio, half-live
EP The Distant Future a year later.