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█▓███ ARTIST..: The Swiss Army ▐█▐
██▓██ TITLE...: Private Ambulance ▐█▐
█▓██▓ LABEL...: Women Records ▐█▐
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▒▒▒▓▒ RIP-DATE...: May-06-2004 STREET-DATE: May-07-2004 ▐█▐
▒░▒░░ RIPPER.....: Team-ICE SUPPLIER...: Team-ICE ▐█▐
░░▒░▒ TYPE.......: Album GENRE......: Indie ▐█▐
▒▒░▒░ TRACKS.....: 11 SiZE.......: 54,7 MB ▐█▐
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█▒▒▒▓ QUALITY....: 192kbps / 44.1kHz / Joint-Stereo ▐█▐
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█▓█▓█ URL........: www.women-records.com ▐█▐
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█▐01 █▐ About Freeways ▌█ 02:57▌█ ▐█▐
█▐02 █▐ False Starts And Time Lines ▌█ 03:01▌█ ▐█▐
█▐03 █▐ Another Happy Ending ▌█ 04:05▌█ ▐█▐
█▐04 █▐ 3136 ▌█ 04:12▌█ ▐█▐
█▐05 █▐ The Incline Station ▌█ 03:43▌█ ▐█▐
█▐06 █▐ John Orr ▌█ 04:03▌█ ▐█▐
█▐07 █▐ Bad Art And The F.A.A. ▌█ 03:05▌█ ▐█▐
█▐08 █▐ Tapwire ▌█ 04:13▌█ ▐█▐
█▐09 █▐ Julian Takes Manhattan ▌█ 03:06▌█ ▐█▐
█▐10 █▐ Walker ▌█ 03:37▌█ ▐█▐
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█▐It's unavoidable, when talking with the Swiss Army, not to bring up ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐their friendship with Slug, the globe-trotting Atmosphere MC who helped▌█ ▐█▐
█▐them get a foothold in the Twin Cities scene. But over beers at the Red▌█ ▐█▐
█▐Dragon, I try not to mention their more famous Minneapolis comrade. It ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐works for about 10 minutes. ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐ ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐"You know about Slug and Murs and that whole connection?" asks Kai ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐Benson, the band's bassist and singer. "I guess we better talk about ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐that." ▌█ ▐█▐
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█▐We'd better, I admit, noting that Benson looks a little sad as he says ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐it, despite the quick grin that comes so easily to his cherubic face. ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐He takes a drink--a gesture that his bandmates confirm is not ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐unfamiliar to him--and shrugs. Maybe he's sick of talking about his ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐friend, who released the Swiss Army's new album Private Ambulance and ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐has hooked up the local indie-rock quartet with an opening slot for And▌█ ▐█▐
█▐You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead for the Swiss Army's second show ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐("It was scary as hell," says Benson, "because we only had six songs ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐and we knew each other for, like, two weeks!") Or maybe he's just a ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐little embarrassed to be so indebted to Slug. Judging from the ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐defensive chatter that ensues, I'd say the band is just annoyed to have▌█ ▐█▐
█▐to share their spotlight with a guy who already carries more weight and▌█ ▐█▐
█▐boasts more noise than a Metrodome hot-dog barker. ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐ ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐"We've each been making music for as long as anyone else," says ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐guitarist Josh Syx. "We've been doing it as long as Slug has." ▌█ ▐█▐
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█▐"And this is what Slug's always wanted to do," adds Benson. "He doesn't▌█ ▐█▐
█▐want to rap his whole life. He doesn't want to be the Mick Jagger of ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐hip hop. He wants to run a label and help bands." ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐ ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐Which is how the still-embryonic Women Records--an indie-rock label co ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐-founded by the indie hip-hop team of Slug and Murs, the L.A. rapper ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐from the Def Jux crew--was born. The foreseeable disconnect between ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐four punks and their rap-happy label heads could theoretically make it ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐hard for the Swiss Army to live up to their status as the first band on▌█ ▐█▐
█▐Women, but that just isn't the case. The two cultures run closer than ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐ever before in the Twin Cities, maybe because there aren't enough ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐people in Minnesota to allow major infighting. Punks, indie rockers, ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐hip-hop heads--to borrow Slug's line, they all sing the same song, and ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐half the time they're even the same people. All the guys in the Swiss ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐Army claim a love of hip hop, and Benson goes by the DJ name Marshall ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐Larada in the hip-hop collective Doomtree. And Slug is, after all, a ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐pale and skinny dude from the Midwest who carries a hip-hop monkey ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐around that people keep describing as "backpacker music," so nobody ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐should be too surprised that he digs the Swiss Army's sweat-and-tears, ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐Les Savy Fav-y rock. ▌█ ▐█▐
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█▐Private Ambulance seems like a good investment for the new label. Its ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐indie rock is as familiar as these beer bottles we're sipping at the ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐Dragon, full of tried and true, Jawbox-inspired eighth-note overtures ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐that rock you--more like a cradle than, say, a hurricane--into a head- ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐nodding reverie. Despite the band's connection to hip hop, they're not ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐tempted on Private Ambulance to venture into that territory, or worse, ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐to try to squeeze out a credible hybrid of the two styles--an ill- ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐conceived plot that hatched that whole crappy Sugar Ray/Orange County ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐scene 10 years ago. "We're smart enough to know not to do that," says ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐Syx, who cracks jokes about bands with "a DJ, a guy that plays ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐saxophone, a guy playing bongos, and some dude who just sits there and ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐smokes weed." ▌█ ▐█▐
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█▐As it turns out, discussing the Swiss Army's hip-hop connection is far ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐less interesting than listening to a listless Benson explain what his ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐songs are about. Like "Tapwire": "It's about being a spy, and lying ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐there, dying peacefully on your last day as a spy," he says after ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐thinking about it for a while. "I wrote it, like, three years ago, and ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐have been drinking every day since, so I don't really remember. But ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐it's about a spy, and also I was obsessed with the concept of private ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐ambulance companies. Like instead of dialing 911 you dial some seven- ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐digit number and be like, 'Quick, my leg's broken, what's up.' But it's▌█ ▐█▐
█▐also cool because you've got the option. Ambulances are like an ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐establishment--and I'm not saying Private Ambulance is, like, ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐antiestablishment--but I just like little quirks in the system like ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐that. Like, there's ambulance, right, but yo, a private ambulance, that▌█ ▐█▐
█▐works, too. Know what I'm saying?" ▌█ ▐█▐
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█▐Before I can admit that I don't, the band's other singer/guitarist, ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐Andrew Lund, explains, "Everything Kai writes has to have, like, three ▌█ ▐█▐
█▐meanings." ▌█ ▐█▐
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█▐"Okay, so it's about a spy and a private ambulance," I say. "That's ▌█ ▐█▐
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█▐Kai smiles. "Oh, and Slug pointed out that it's also about being a ▌█ ▐█▐
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