- Release Info -------------------------------------------------------------- -
Artist: His & Her Vanities
Album: The Mighty Lounge
Label: Science of Sound
Playtime: 29:24 min
Genre: Indie
URL: http://www.myspace.com/hishervanities
Rip date: 2009-11-11
Street date: 2009-10-20
Size: 45.06 MB
Type: Normal
Quality: 202 kbps / 4410kHz / Joint Stereo
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Madison, Wisconsin-based His & Her Vanities developed when Ricky and Terrin
Riemer began writing music together in their basement while their infant son
was asleep at night. With Terrin playing around on bass and Ricky on drums,
the couple worked up entire song arrangements, recorded them, and layered
other instruments and vocals on top. After amassing a collection of slightly
angular, post-punk/pop-rock songs this way, the couple decided to bring the
songs to the stage with a full band. In 2001, drummer Sara Quigle joined the
Riemers, and with Ricky moving to guitar they played several shows together
before recording their self-titled debut, released in June 2002. With the
addition of Matt Abplanalp on rhythm guitar (also a bandmate of Ricky's in
spazzy math-rock band Transformer Lootbag), H&HV emerged as a four-piece for
live shows.
While the debut album's extensive use of back-up vocals and synthesizer
tracks at times gravitated toward sonic chaos, their sophomore effort, A
Thought Process (2004), took a toned-down approach presenting the songs
closer to the way they would sound live. Immediately following the disc's
release, Ricky and Terrin's second son arrived, making it a little trickier
to find creative time to work on new H&HV music. Concurrently, their self-run
record label, Science of Sound, began growing as well. After existing solely
to release their own bands music, the label's reach expanded to other
Midwestern acts including the garage-folk punk of Sleeping in the Aviary and
orchestral-pop outfit Pale Young Gentlemen. Between time spent promoting the
label, more extensive recording work for others in their basement studio and
raising two active young boys, it took awhile for H&HV's third release to
emerge. But The Mighty Lunge makes it to the finish line in October 2009.
Self-recorded, mixed and produced, with eight tracks and a running time just
shy of 30 minutes, The Mighty Lunge combines many of the band's past sounds
along with some fresh forms of experimentation.
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01. Hits Like Hail ( 3:12)
02. Wait It Out ( 3:14)
03. What It Is ( 3:51)
04. Fragments ( 3:07)
05. Fuses ( 3:46)
06. New Designs ( 3:15)
07. Agenda ( 4:54)
08. Wake Up This Day ( 4:05)
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