ARTiST: Menomena
ALBUM: Mines
BiTRATE: 196kbps avg
QUALiTY: EAC Secure Mode / LAME 3.97 Final / -V2 --vbr-new / 44.100Khz
LABEL: City Slang
GENRE: Indie
SiZE: 80.37 megs
PLAYTiME: 0h 54min 19sec total
RiP DATE: 2010-07-26
STORE DATE: 2010-07-23
Track List:
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01. Queen Black Acid 4:47
02. Taos 5:00
03. Killemall 4:06
04. Dirty Cartoons 4:52
05. Tithe 4:53
06. Bote 5:52
07. Lunchmeat 3:29
08. Oh Pretty Boy, You're Such A 5:19
Big Boy
09. Five Little Rooms 4:57
10. Sleeping Beauty 5:17
11. Intil 5:47
Release Notes:
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Menomena's Danny Seim on the new album: It's been three-and-a-half years since
the release of our last album. Roughly two of those years were spent touring and
working on the music contained on Mines, and the rest was spent continuing to
work on the new music and on arguing over it. On one hand, it seems like
forever. On the other hand...well no, it still seems like forever. Nothing holds
up a process like an indispensable band member being both a perfectionist and a
control freak. Especially when your band features three of these types. And we
certainly haven't gotten any more agreeable in our old age ù quite the opposite.
However, in the wake of brutal disagreements, unrelenting grudges and failed
marriages (not to mention a world full of modern terrorism, natural disasters
and economic collapse) somehow this band is still standing. Mines was
constructed the same way we've always made music: We jammed and recorded
hundreds of loops spontaneously, using the same ol' trusty software program
Brent wrote as a college assignment back in the day. We individually pieced the
resulting loops together like jigsaw puzzles, adding in voices and
sentimentality. We made big strides building skeletal song structures, and did a
decent job collaborating as the ideas began to take shape. But just when a song
became familiar to one of us, the other two members broke it apart again,
breaking each others' hearts along the way. We rerecorded, rebuilt, and
ultimately resented each other. And believe it or not, we're all proud of the
results.
I should have started this thing off with a catchy headline. Something like,
"Mines will blow off your limbs like an Italian VS-50!" or, "Get ready to strike
gold in the mineral-rich soil of Mines!" But again, I can't speak too smugly
here. So then, Mines. Land mines, ore mines, plural possessive "mines"? All of
the above, I guess... But mostly the latter. I'm just realizing now that I've
already illustrated the possessive by choosing to write this myself.
As usual, the end somehow justifies the means. It's done, and it's the best
record we could make at this time in our lives. Thank you for listening.
Menomena will release their fourth full-length record, mines, on July 27th.
Danny Seim, Justin Harris, and Brent Knopf perform, sing, arrange, and create
Menomena songs. On stage, Danny usually plays drums and sings. Justin usually
plays bass, saxophone, MOOG, electric guitar, and sings. Brent usually plays
keyboards, bells, guitar, and sings.