ARTIST: A Lull
TITLE: Ice Cream Bones
LABEL: Lujo Records
GENRE: Indie
BITRATE: 200kbps avg
PLAYTIME: 0h 11m total
RELEASE DATE: 2009-00-00
RIP DATE: 2010-03-19
Track List
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1. Skinny Fingers 4:37
2. White/Gold 1:28
3. Little Echoes 3:30
4. Our Age 1:44
Release Notes:
http://www.myspace.com/alullmusic
For over two years, A Lull was an idea that was being flushed out and tried and
retried in basements, bedrooms and practice spaces all around Chicago. Then, in
December of 2008, Nigel Evan Dennis, Todd Miller and Mike Brown decided to make
their long, hard work public. They formed a live band to play a few of the more
than fifty songs that theyÆd recorded over those two years of writing.
Since the beginning, the writing hasnÆt changed much. It is and always has been
a process thatÆs primarily based on trial and error. Nothing is off limits-
throwing a pile of percussive instruments against a wall, churning a can full or
garbage and beer bottles with a broom stick, hitting drums with microphones,
recording unplugged electric guitars with extremely sensitive microphones- and
many things donÆt make it into the songs, but some do. Having recorded
everything themselves, A Lull has the opportunity to try anything and everything
and then keep what works.
In May of 2008, A Lull released its debut effort, Ice Cream Bones EP, an EP that
is a sort of compilation of the four songs that were the closest to a finished
state at the time and that made sense together. It was an introduction to the
band, and is an EP that showcases the bandÆs range as well as its ability to
write pop songs that are sonically interesting and imaginative while remaining
catchy and accessible at the same time.
Since December of 2008, as an eight-piece band at its largest and a five-piece
at its smallest, A Lull has played all over Chicago in venues such as Schubas,
Empty Bottle, Bottom Lounge, Subterranean, Beat Kitchen and more, and has also
taken itÆs show on the road, to the east coast as well as to many other cites in
the Midwest.
The balance of writing and touring continues. A Lull is currently writing and
recording songs for its upcoming full-length album, Confetti. The band will also
be touring significantly, with plans of making it back to the east coast at
least two more times before the year is out.
What the Internet and others have been saying about A Lull, "Ice Cream Bones"
EP, the "Skinny Fingers" video and everything else:
"...catchy, buoyant pop out of sometimes skewed or experimental ingredients,
including dark electronic ambience and sputtering synthesized percussion." Jim
DeRogatis, Chicago Sun-Times
"Very Eno-esque recording, catchy, quirky. It's got pop-sensibility...DAMN GOOD"
Richard Milne, WXRT Chicago, 93.1
"A Lull is like the current crop of Blitzen Trappers and Fleet Foxes all playing
at once, making a monumental mellow mess of reverb and itchy harmonies. It might
be too easy to compare them to hyper-textural groups such as Grizzly Bear, since
A Lull aims for a feeling of unease instead of rapture, overloading their songs
with squelchy textures, bummer hooks, and dark-hued studio rattles." Christopher
Weingarten, The Village Voice
"A Lull creates a vast sound far more massive than the sum of its parts. Their
beat-heavy brand of post-rock relies equally on instrumental rhythms as it does
melodic vocal percussion...A Lull's songs inhale as much as they exhaleùtrading
in swirling electronics and tribal beats for acoustic rhythms and harmonized
vocal hooks as it breathes." www.XLR8R.com