ARTIST: Fred Weaver
TITLE: Five Digit Land
LABEL: Apocolypse the Apocolypse
GENRE: Rock
BITRATE: 216kbps avg
PLAYTIME: 0h 39m total
RELEASE DATE: 2006-05-30
RIP DATE: 2007-02-14
Track List
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1. Five Digit Land 4:30
2. Now All is There Ever is 4:09
3. As You Go 3:58
4. The Light at the Corner 2:11
5. Sparrows 5:39
6. Song of Salvation 3:33
7. Favorite Actors 2:58
8. St. Marys 12:25
Release Notes:
Fred Weaver is a Baton Rouge, Louisiana based band consisting of patriarch Fred
Weaver (guitar, vocals), John Wygle (guitar), John Sullivan (bass) and Matt
Heroman (drums).
Their forthcoming first full band record, Five Digit Land, is a return to the
noisy rock music of WeaverÆs past, though perhaps with a subtlety and better
grasp of dynamics brought about by years of playing solo. Guitarists Weaver and
Wygle neglect traditional rhythm/lead roles in favor of trading off with
WeaverÆs hyperactive skittering chordal leads (often on 12 string guitar, not
often used for such aggressive playing) and WygleÆs more ambience oriented
effected approach. Sullivan and Heroman keep it all together with a mighty,
thunderous, heavy rhythm section. Lyrical themes follow WeaverÆs tradition of
imagistic, almost cinematic, musings on suburbia, alienation, desperation, love
lost, and love gained.
Fred Weaver, 32, has previously issued 2 albums (Present Dusk and Those Ancient
Skies) of largely solo acoustic material, along with having played over 130
shows around the nation between 1999 and 2003. He was also a member of
pioneering early 90Æs NYC prog-noise-math rock band, Vineland, with whom he
matched guitar wits (and largely lost) with ex-Bitch Magnet guitarist and future
BusinessWeek columnist Jon Fine. In between those projects, he has also played
on many other records: drums for the semi-improv noise band Worf, acoustic
guitar for the surreal Ceramic Torment, bass for the girl led indie rock band
Cotillion. He has also contributed writing to Chunklet Magazine (who keep
threatening to issue in book form his diary of an ill-fated fall 2000 tour
opening for Don Caballero), Gambit Weekly along with several online zines.
Throughout his career, WeaverÆs Apocalypse the Apocalypse recording studio has
recorded albums by hundreds of artists and in 2004 launched their own label, on
which heÆs issued releases by himself, Otasco, Slobot, Justinbailey, Reception
Is Suspected.
John Wygle, now 22, was, at 12 years old, the leader of post-hardcore bedroom
legends Third World War. 10 years later, he splits time between pursuing a
degree in Electrical Engineering and playing with Fred Weaver and his
improv-noise/rock band, Black Falcon Destructor.
John Sullivan, 24, also plays bass in the shoegazery 2CV.
Matt Heroman, 21, is pursuing a degree in Psychology and plays drums with Wygle
in Black Falcon Destructor.