Artist.......: Dub Trio
Album........: Another Sound is Dying
Label........: n/a
Genre........: Avantgarde
Catnr........: n/a
source.......: CDDA
rip.date.....: Dec-23-2007
str.date.....: 000-00-0000
quality......: VBR/44.1Hz/Joint-Stereo
Url..........: n/a
track title time
01. Not for nothing 05:34
02. jog on 02:01
03. bay vs. leonard 03:21
04. felicitacion 04:34
05. mortar dub 04:19
06. regression line 04:29
07. who wants to die? 03:24
08. respite 05:24
09. no flag 04:10
10. the midnight rider 04:40
11. safe and sane 02:59
12. agonist 06:50
13. fuck what you heard 03:41
14. funishment 04:36
Runtime 60:02 min
Size 83,3 MB
Release Notes:
Given that their new album opens with a guitar riff
that could melt leadùa theme, incidentally, that
extends throughout Another Sound Is DyingùyouÆd be
forgiven for wondering what connects BrookylnÆs Dub
Trio to the nearly 40-year-old Jamaican style that
makes up half their name. The answer, youÆll find,
comes just minutes later, as the riffs, riddims and
raw power at the core of Dub TrioÆs sound get
chopped apart, bounced across speaker channels and
charged with subsonic frequencies. This is dub as
mixing-board art form, not as literal genre
exercise, and itÆs absolutely fugging massive.
Recorded in a week at New HampshireÆs Studio
Metronome, and reconfigured in an additional week
at Studio G in Brooklyn, Another Sound Is Dying
finds Dub Trioùdrummer Joe Tomino, bassist Stu
Brooks and guitarist D.P. Holmesùagain working with
producer/engineer/honorary fourth member Joel
Hamilton on tunes that simultaneously embrace
metal, hip-hop, punk and reggae while pushing all
of the above into dazzlingly unfamiliar areas. From
the dramatic, shoegaze-style post-metal of
ôRespiteö and the straightforward roots-reggae nods
in ôMortar Dub,ö to the contrapuntal, lid-peeling
violence of the closing track, ôFunishment,ö the
album showcases Dub TrioÆs chops and vocabulary
(all three members are also seasoned session
players) as much as it finds them swinging,
grooving and pummeling with wrecking-ball force.
While again a mostly instrumental set, Another
Sound Is Dying features a return vocal cameo (in
the politically charged, thrash-influenced ôNo
Flagö) from Ipecac co-owner/art-rock
jack-of-all-trades Mike Patton. The musiciansÆ
first collaboration, ôNot Alone,ö appeared on Dub
TrioÆs 2006 album, New Heavy, as well as the
eponymous debut that same year from PattonÆs
Peeping Tom project; and when he took Peeping Tom
on the road, Brooks, Tomino and Holmes became the
only constant members in PattonÆs backing band. ôWe
just click with him,ö Tomino says. ôSince this was
our first record on Ipecac, we figured itÆd be
fitting to collaborate again, so we sent him a few
tracks to choose fromùa few obvious ones and some
not-so-obvious onesùand he picked one of the
not-so-obvious ones, which made it that much cooler
to hear when we got it back with vocals.ö
The 13 additional tracks on Another Sound Is Dying
prove that, ripping though the Patton collaboration
is, Dub Trio have never needed a vocal mic to get
their point across. Though a mere hint of what the
group would become, their 2004 debut album for
ROIR, Exploring the Dangers of, testified to Dub
TrioÆs jaw-dropping live skills: the album was
literally recorded as a live-dub experiment. But
with New Heavy, the trio of multi-instrumentalists
(besides operating some serious effects rigs, the
members double on keyboards and melodica) made good
on their albumÆs title, creating a metallic K.O.
grounded in serious low-end theory. That yearÆs
Peeping Tom tour, in which they shared stages with
the likes of Gnarls Barkley and The Who while
opening for and being part of the headlining act,
proved that Dub TrioÆs sound crossed genre and
audience barriers as much as it bridged them.
A live album for ROIR, Cool Out And Coexist, kicked
off 2007; and between session workùthe members have
recorded with 50 Cent, Mos Def, Common, the Fugees,
Tupac and Matisyahu among othersùand tours with
artists as far-flung (but somehow fitting) as Gogol
Bordello, Clutch and Helmet, Dub Trio teamed with
Ipecac to unleash Another Sound Is Dying. As much
as the album continues the louder, heavier
progression of New Heavy, it also finds Dub Trio
melding their preferred styles into a sound thatÆs
at once bigger and more cohesive than ever. ôOur
first two studio records were pretty much
in-your-face in terms of production,ö says Tomino.
ôWith this one, thereÆs a lot more breathing room,
a lot more space than before.ö At the same time,
adds Holmes, ôItÆs got these elements of metal,
because thatÆs a sound we all love, but we never
set out to make this a genre-specific record. The
dub technique is the underlying foundation to
itùitÆs all been composed and produced and arranged
with that sort of aesthetic.ö
Reggae aficionados may also note that the new
albumÆs title is a line from Tenor SawÆs 1985 cut
ôRing the Alarm,ö perhaps the most famous dancehall
song ever recorded, and certainly the most widely
heard boast ever from a sound system that was too
dangerous to stay obscure for much longer. As
Brooks puts it, thatÆs a sentiment that echoes
through Dub TrioÆs m.o., as well. ôIf you really
think about the idea in that song, where youÆre
creating this thing thatÆs out there just
destroying speakers, itÆs actually pretty dark and
aggressive. We loved that idea, because this is the
darkest record weÆve ever done, and itÆs also our
way of opening peopleÆs minds.ö He laughs. ôItÆs
kind of a cocky sentiment, maybe, but it means
weÆre killing it.ö