Artist: Teenagersintokyo
Title: Sacrifice
Label: Backyard
Genre: Indie
Bitrate: 183kbit av.
Time: 00:42:05
Size: 58.36 mb
Rip Date: 2010-04-27
Str Date: 2010-05-10
01. Sacrifice 3:59
02. Peter Pan 3:53
03. New Day 3:31
04. Long Walk Home 4:20
05. Isabella 4:37
06. End It Tonight 2:52
07. As We Are 4:11
08. Talk To The Fire 3:30
09. Robocat 4:35
10. 3046 6:37
Release Notes:
Recorded at Bryn Derwen studios deep in the welsh countryside with
Faultlinemainman and twice Mercury Prize nominated Bat For Lashes
producer David Kosten; 'Sacrifice' draws together the most exciting
subterranean music of the past thirty years. Sinister, crawling
synthsmarry pulsing rhythms and screaming guitars.
In a short space of time Teenagersintokyo have come from nothing to
quickly rising as one the bands to watch in 2010; selling out venues
across the UK, bagging support from the likes of Zane Lowe and the NME;
and most recently topping the Hype Machine chart with The Horrors remix
of 'Peter Pan'. Following the celebrated release of their self-titled
EP in 2009 the band caught everyoneÆs attention, landing themselves
international acclaim, support slots with CSS, The Slits & Gossip, a
record deal with Backyard and a move to the other side of the world.
The result is debut album 'Sacrifice'; an album that promises delight,
thick in imagery, where landscapes and fire dominate the pastoral
gloom. Album references are immaculate: 'Isabella' recalls prime era
Siouxie & The Banshees with a serrated electro punk edge; while 'Long
Walk Home' is awash with Joy Division synth swatches. The relative
light and optimism of 'New Day' is outweighed by the suicidal calamity
of 'End It Tonight', and new single 'Peter Pan', whips, lashes and
sparks like a loose electric cable. The bass is tar thick, the drums
edgy and jittering, the guitars sharp and slicing. And caught in the
centre, singer Samantha Lim's veneer of fragile innocence fractures and
collapses to allow glimpses to the turmoil beneath. It's a crooked
shadow racing for the dancefloor with its knives drawn.
Teenagersintokyo are poised to take their place amongst the art-pop new
wave; now sultry shimmerscapes like '3046' and deviant dancefloor
destroyers like 'Talk To The Fire' and 'Peter Pan' are set to draw back
the curtain on a more opulent Big Picture.
Prepare to be dazzled, blackened, bewitched.
sire@hush.ai