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Artist: Thieves & Villains
Album: South America
Label: Victory
Playtime: 38:01 min
Genre: Rock
URL: http://www.victoryrecords.com/thievesandvillains
Rip date: 2010-08-03
Street date: 2010-08-03
Size: 64.10 MB
Type: Normal
Quality: 224 kbps / 4410kHz / Joint Stereo
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When it came to writing South America, THIEVES & VILLAINS decided to sculpt
the album as if they were the only four people on earth to hear it. Looking
for a new sense of direction, THIEVES & VILLAINS mentally escaped to a
beautiful hiding place that they named South America. The band found that
this venture in their collective minds would allow them to be free, which
in-turn, helped create music that excited them, and that they would
ultimately fall in love with.
However, the record was still being created under the same confines as many
bands today; a spastic sinking ship of a country that has never been as
stressed out, paranoid, or misled as it is right nowà an America that is
truly going ôSouth.ö The result of this is the album title that came to
represent the dichotomy of one location being the place you hate and love the
most; the place you escape to, yet the place you despise. Produced by Tim
Gilles, THIEVES & VILLAINS took an old approach and made it new again. In a
world of over-produced and over-auto-tuned songs recorded take after take,
the band set out to bring music as a whole, back to its roots. ôWe record the
entire album to analog tape on Mr. GillesÆ vintage tape machines and used all
our own gear and live tones. We didnÆt do takes of anything to death and
approached every section with a real ôwhat you see is what you getö logic.
What youÆre listening to is not the productive of hours of tweakingàits the
product of a few friends having fun and making music the old fashioned way.ö
THIEVES & VILLAINS took the same indie-rock vibe as VAMPIRE WEEKEND, combined
it with the childlike sense of wonder found in an early DANIEL JOHNSTON song,
and added the quirkiness implemented in the Pinkerton-era of WEEZER while
crafting their sophomore record THIEVES & VILLAINS ambitiously recorded South
America to analog tape on vintage tape machines and used all their own gear
and live tones. They didnÆt record hundreds of takes on any song, and
approached every section with real talent and logic. What youÆll listen to on
South America is not the product of hours of tweaking, but rather the product
of great friends having fun while making music the old-fashioned way.
- Track List ---------------------------------------------------------------- -
01. 16 Hits ( 2:56)
02. Song For Dean Moriarty ( 3:58)
03. Virginia Woolf ( 2:58)
04. I Want a Friend Like You ( 2:48)
05. Drunk In Amsterdam ( 2:48)
06. Island Waterfall Blues ( 2:37)
07. Youth ( 2:55)
08. Central Park ( 2:32)
09. Some May Call It Rain ( 2:37)
10. The Aesthetic Life is the Life For Me ( 2:52)
11. American Boy ( 2:40)
12. South America ( 2:54)
13. South St. Hymnal ( 3:26)
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