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└────────┘ 21.05.2008
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artist: The Innits
album: Everything Is True
label: Sunday Service
cat: n/a
year: 2007
genre: Indie
source: Cdda
grabber: Eac
encoder: LAME 3.97 V2 --Vbr-New -V 2
quality: VBRkbps / 44,1kHz / Joint-Stereo
size: 48,4 MB
link: n/a
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│tracklist.
no. time track title
01 02:35 On A Mission
02 02:47 A Walk In Dirty Weather
03 01:51 My Sonic Youth
04 02:17 Everything Is True
05 01:53 Tortured Turkeys On The TV
06 03:20 Rock'n'roll
07 02:16 Stars
08 02:35 Birds
09 02:28 Light and Sound
10 02:48 So Far Alright
11 03:10 Conversations
12 03:07 Always Near
13 03:10 Time I Think
total time: 34:17 min
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│release notes.
äA grass of beer and a lot of shakalang
is our plaisir and thatÆs why weÆre in a band.
No way is too long
no place too far away
no wind too strong
as long as we can play.ô
These are the lines the debut album of The Innits, hailing from
Berlin, begins with. Does the title they have picked for it ¼û
ôEverything Is Trueö û leave any more questions? Not straightaway.
The four-piece begins by lashing out some highly energetic hymns at
the listener, lovingly combining Hⁿsker Dⁿ with sixties beat. What
follows is what sounds like the Smiths playing The Velvet
UndergroundÆs instruments, and thatÆs not the end of the list of
possible associations.
The Innits are referencing music history in a very sophisticated
way. What they deliver is not a pastiche, but an authentic
renaissance with a very own flavour. Their weapons of choice are
insistent guitars, Christopher UheÆs (ex-member of Speed Niggs,
Sharon Stoned and Floor) stripped-down and edgy production and
dazzling singing harmonies, which sometimes remind the listener of
the early Beatles.
And then there are the subtle lyrics, written by singer-drummer Mek
Obaam, cheerfully telling about city cowboys failing to know their
meters and bounds, about the debauches of teenage girls with rock
stars or about the cons of boys refusing to grow up. A collection
of amazing anecdotes rising from intoxication. But now and then
hilarity gets interspersed with reflective passages: ôEverything Is
Trueö, the title track, depicts the consequences of gossip being
handled carelessly. In ôLight And Soundö, Mek Obaam describes in a
crystal-clear way what keeps the world together at its very core,
whereas in ôConversationsö, sun and moon, day and night and heaven
and earth enter a dialogue of almost biblical dimensions. This must
be what happens if you donÆt want to stop going out even if youÆre
beyond thirty û a mechanism seeking to salve consciences seems to
come into effect. At the same time, debauchery becomes something
precious. You begin to wallow.
Even if ôEverything Is Trueö is located on such delicate grounds,
it cannot be emphasised enough how much of a catching zest for life
this record conveys. And when we hear its last line ôItÆs time I
think I changed my life for youö, we would love to ask for the
record to play on and on. But pensive heads and enlightened moments
eventually have to pass.
After the release of a single on the Irish label Earsugar,
ôEverything Is Trueö is the InnitsÆ debut on Sunday Service.
Songwriter Mek Obaam made his name as Schneider TMÆs and Babara
MorgensternÆs sideman and by hitting the drums for The Boggs from
NYC. Guitarist and background vocalist Dirk Kretz also is a member
of The Beautiful Newborn Children and Die Tⁿren. The handsome
four-piece is completed by Vincenzo Perrotta on guitars and Jannes
Wurps on bass.
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