ARTIST: Parts & Labor
TITLE: Mapmaker
LABEL: Jagjaguwar/Brah Records
GENRE: Rock
BITRATE: 231kbps avg
PLAYTIME: 0h 42m total
RELEASE DATE: 2007-05-22
RIP DATE: 2007-05-09
Track List
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1. Fractured Skies 4:01
2. Brighter Days 3:04
3. Vision Of Repair 3:36
4. The Gold We're Digging 2:59
5. New Crimes 3:02
6. Long Way Down 3:56
7. Ghosts Will Burn 3:50
8. Unexplosions 4:55
9. Camera Shy 1:08
10. King Of The Hill 2:31
11. Fake Rain 3:15
12. Knives And Pencils 6:03
Release Notes:
Mapmaker is the second Jagjaguwar/Brah album from Brooklyn noisepunks Parts &
Labor. Expanding on the soaring melodies and cracked electronics of 2006's Stay
Afraid, P&L explores a wider array of berserk, malfunctioning instruments and
intricate, pummeling rhythms. These 12 political/personal anthems about ambition
and distraction boast bigger choruses, denser drones and shinier hooks.
Adding new textures to Parts & Labor's searing pop-squall, the album features
guest spots from flautist/megaphonist/vocalist Natalja Kent (of The Good Good)
and guitarist Joe Kremer (of labelmates Pterodactyl). Opening surge "Fractured
Skies" features a horn section (led by P&L's BJ Warshaw on sax) billowing up
through the kaleidoscopic fuzz of electronics. Track 10 is a
distorted-toy-keyboard take on the classic Minutemen antiwar spiel "King Of The
Hill."
Parts & Labor cite the following bands as influences and are totally cool with
you name-checking them: Hⁿsker Dⁿ, Sonic Youth, Boredoms, Minutemen, Neutral
Milk Hotel and Amps For Christ. Parts & Labor spent 2006 touring extensively
around Europe and North America, playing shows with Clinic, Black Dice, Islands,
Sonic Boom, I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness, Wilderness, Man Man, Spank
Rock, An Albatross, Oneida, Year Future, Hidden Cameras, Charalambides, Wooden
Wand, Matt & Kim, Kyp Malone and Oakley Hall; and they can't wait to do it
again.
Mapmaker was recorded and mixed by The Brothers (Oxford Collapse, !!!, Measles
Mumps Rubella, Pterodactyl) at the Brothers Studio in Brooklyn, NY. Additional
vocals and electronics were recorded by Parts & Labor in a windowless bedroom.
In between their Jag full-lengths, P&L recorded an all-electronics EP for
esteemed experimental electronic label Broklyn Beats. Warshaw and Friel also run
their own record label, Cardboard Records, which has recently put out music from
Gowns, Big Bear, Pterodactyl and Aa.