Oppenheimer-Take_The_Whole_Midrange_And_Boost_It-(Advance)-2008-404

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2008-05-20

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ARTiST: Oppenheimer
ALBUM: Take The Whole Midrange And Boost It
BiTRATE: 223kbps avg
QUALiTY: EAC Secure Mode / LAME 3.97 Final / -V2 --vbr-new / 44.100Khz
LABEL:  Bar/None Records
GENRE: Indie
SiZE: 50.81 megs
PLAYTiME: 0h 30min 01sec total
RiP DATE: 2008-05-20
STORE DATE: 2008-00-00

Track List:
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01. Major Television Events          1:08
02. Look Up                          2:14
03. Cate Blanchett                   3:39
04. Only Goal & Winner               2:55
05. Take The Whole Midrange And      1:58
    Boost It
06. Stephen McAuley For President    2:38
07. Support Our Truths               2:19
08. The Blue Rose                    3:01
09. Before And After The Quake       3:25
10. Fireworks Are Illegal In The     2:01
    State Of New Jersey
11. The Never Never                  1:47
12. I Don't Care What Anyone Says    2:56
    About You, I Think You're
    Alright

Release Notes:
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Roll back nearly two years to a small room in a house in Belfast Northern
Ireland. Toying with ideas and pushing all the buttons on their keyboards led
duo Rocky O’Reilly and Shaun Robinson, otherwise known as Oppenheimer, to fall
into a sound that the BBC called “all poetic and blip-tastic.” After looping,
cutting and recording enough tracks, they soon started playing in local clubs.
Encouraged, they started sending music to their favorite labels, Bar/None
Records being the first. In the six months that it took an intern in the Hoboken
office of Bar/None to dig their CD from a pile, the two had continued writing
and recording two minute slices of pop, and were making friends at home. They
played shows with acts like Ash, Architecture In Helsinki, Tilly & The Wall and
The Bravery and were proclaimed to be “immensely watchable pop-peddlers‚” by the
Belfast Telegraph.

By the start of 2006 Oppenheimer put the final synthesizer bleeps on their debut
album. After completing a session with guest vocalist Tim Wheeler of Ash. A
limited edition, hand printed 7” was released in the UK in April, selling out
quickly. Bar/None released the album on June 6th, followed by releases in
Australia, Japan and Thailand. What followed was hundreds of shows, sixteen
weeks of touring in the states and another sixteen in Europe that helped
Oppenheimer hone their lush electronic pop sound.

At the same time their tracks began finding their way into television shows like
How I Met Your Mother and Ugly Betty and commercial campaigns for Fujifilm and
Nike, switching even more people onto this Irish two piece.

Oppenheimer were then invited by They Might Be Giants to tour North America,
before returning to Ireland to record again…

And now the dynamic duo are set to release their sophomore long player for
Bar/None, brazenly titled Take the Whole Midrange and Boost It. We ask, is it a
shot at the shallow pre-fab pop machine, a heady and complicated insight to
their own sound engineering techniques or are Rocky and Shaun going macro,
rendering a title that we’re supposed to take as a metaphor for Life on Earth?

The new record embraces some pretty esoteric themes: politics? fireworks in New
Jersey and Cate Blanchett impersonators to name a few. But they’re certainly not
all above the neck. The band’s soaring, visceral approach is pure pop for now
people, winning the love of friends, fans and press alike-- Gary Lightbody of
Snow Patrol proclaiming, “Oppenheimer are like the Irish Flaming Lips or Mates
of State. It’s extremely rare for a band from Belfast to have that otherworldly
sound. They’re an incredible new band.” Alternative Ulster Magazine voted the
band #1 Most Likely To Succeed Amongst Irish Music Professionals and Ireland’s
Hot Press has said, "Their warm electro pop make Oppenheimer stand apart in a
city dominated by dreary guitar bands.” And it hasn’t only been the obvious
giving the duo their props, "I am stoked and thankful to have been a part of
this record," says Matt Caughtran of thrash-punk godheads The Bronx who lent his
voice to the appropriately heavy handed “The Never Never.”

The other 11 songs embody Oppenheimer’s trademark epic synth and guitar driven
pop, but introduce a more obvious mandate to rock hard. While the album kick off
“Major Television Events,” is reminiscent of “Breakfast In NYC” from their 2006
self-titled debut, the step up to a poignant grind is undeniable. Scribe Gordon
Matthews even said, "Look Up may be Rocky and Shaun's 'Born to Run.'" The
aforementioned “Cate Blanchett” is a vast pop soundscape, “Support Our Truths”
harnesses a sweet, memorable melody in classic Oppenheimer form and “Only Goal
And Winner” slides from a swirling haze of synths and chorale voices before
locking into a beat that takes it to another level of pop ingenuity. And that’s
just to describe a few. But why dance about architecture?

In a few short months, (June, to be exact), Oppenheimer’s Take the Whole
Midrange and Boost It will be released on Bar/None Records. Hang tight till
then. The band will be joining They Might Be Giants for another string of North
American dates come February, so we’ll keep you posted on that.

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