LP - Estrogen Highs - Hear Me On The Number Station
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Trouble In Mind is back with two hot new releases to warm you up this fall!!!!! This one is the fourth album from angular, minimalist rockers, Estrogen Highs, entitled "Hear Me On The Number Station" and the TiM peeps have the whole story thusly:
"It’s been a full two years since the Estrogen Highs have graced our turntables, but after a brief hiatus the boys are back & with a healthy batch of eighteen songs that comprise their fourth full-length “Hear Me On The Number Station”. The teeth-rattling scree of 2012’s “Irrelevant Future” is (mostly) dialed back to a pensive hum, without sacrificing any of the lyrical bite, and sits comfortably alongside an exploratory pop drive, embracing the dichotomy between noise & quietude with confidence & ease.
Vocalist/guitarist Stefan Christiansen’s laconic delivery is the lynchpin to many of the album’s eighteen tunes, with lyrics that sway between the abstract & the intimately specific. The New Haven, Connecticuit band has always had one foot in the musical waters of New Zealand, & the influence of their Kiwi-pop fore- fathers, but this time out the band incorporates the more avant textures of the Xpressway discography rather than Flying Nun. The delicate piano mantra “Ungrateful” & pensive guitar strummers like “Sideways Through Trees”, “Forever Designing My Stationary” & “Poverty of Human Words” are jammed next to lean punk rippers like “The Russian” & “This Harsh Country” & budget anthems “Hospital Cloud” & “For This Structure”, all of which give “Hear Me On The Number Station” the feel of an amazingly curated mixtape of unknown DIY pop.
Recorded & mixed by the band themselves in varying degrees of fidelity, “Hear Me On The Number Station” was mastered by Australian audio guru Mikey Young, comes housed in a black & white jacket & inner sleeve w/lyrics. The first edition of “Hear Me On The Number Station” is pressed on black vinyl & includes a download code.
RIYL: Wire, Parquet Courts, Tyvek, Peter Gutteridge, Xpressway Records & Television Personalities" - Trouble In Mind Records
As mentioned above the Estrogen Highs have invoked the spirit of Xpressway Records for their latest outing while infusing their own particular brand of spider-y chortle and rattle. And be prepared for a journey, these cats have unleashed a MASSIVE album this time around. So buckle up buckaroos and dive into all 18 tracks! of "Hear Me On The Number Station." New Zealand via New England tunesmiths have created powerful pop and erudite strums aplomb. And like all things Trouble In Mind this one's tremendously Recommended.
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"It’s been a full two years since the Estrogen Highs have graced our turntables, but after a brief hiatus the boys are back & with a healthy batch of eighteen songs that comprise their fourth full-length “Hear Me On The Number Station”. The teeth-rattling scree of 2012’s “Irrelevant Future” is (mostly) dialed back to a pensive hum, without sacrificing any of the lyrical bite, and sits comfortably alongside an exploratory pop drive, embracing the dichotomy between noise & quietude with confidence & ease.
Vocalist/guitarist Stefan Christiansen’s laconic delivery is the lynchpin to many of the album’s eighteen tunes, with lyrics that sway between the abstract & the intimately specific. The New Haven, Connecticuit band has always had one foot in the musical waters of New Zealand, & the influence of their Kiwi-pop fore- fathers, but this time out the band incorporates the more avant textures of the Xpressway discography rather than Flying Nun. The delicate piano mantra “Ungrateful” & pensive guitar strummers like “Sideways Through Trees”, “Forever Designing My Stationary” & “Poverty of Human Words” are jammed next to lean punk rippers like “The Russian” & “This Harsh Country” & budget anthems “Hospital Cloud” & “For This Structure”, all of which give “Hear Me On The Number Station” the feel of an amazingly curated mixtape of unknown DIY pop.
Recorded & mixed by the band themselves in varying degrees of fidelity, “Hear Me On The Number Station” was mastered by Australian audio guru Mikey Young, comes housed in a black & white jacket & inner sleeve w/lyrics. The first edition of “Hear Me On The Number Station” is pressed on black vinyl & includes a download code.
RIYL: Wire, Parquet Courts, Tyvek, Peter Gutteridge, Xpressway Records & Television Personalities" - Trouble In Mind Records
As mentioned above the Estrogen Highs have invoked the spirit of Xpressway Records for their latest outing while infusing their own particular brand of spider-y chortle and rattle. And be prepared for a journey, these cats have unleashed a MASSIVE album this time around. So buckle up buckaroos and dive into all 18 tracks! of "Hear Me On The Number Station." New Zealand via New England tunesmiths have created powerful pop and erudite strums aplomb. And like all things Trouble In Mind this one's tremendously Recommended.
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