Artist: Grand Atlantic
Album: Constellations
Bitrate: 255kbps avg
Quality: EAC Secure Mode / LAME 3.98.4 / -V0 / 44.100Khz
Label: Grand Atlantic
Genre: Rock
Size: 94.07 megs
PlayTime: 0h 48min 41sec total
Rip Date: 2011-08-18
Store Date: 2011-09-02
Track List:
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01. Searchlights 4:50
02. Central Station Blues 3:28
03. Carved from Stone 3:48
04. Constellations 8:45
05. Mountains Too Steep 3:33
06. Poison to the Vine 3:40
07. Little Traps 4:31
08. Fresh Ideas in Home Security 3:26
09. Voyager 4:26
10. N.M.L. 4:51
11. Queenie 3:23
Release Notes:
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Sometimes, getting a bit lost can be the best thing that happens to you. After a
frenetic 2010, Australia’s Grand Atlantic could be forgiven for disappearing for
a while. Tours of the US, Japan and Australia had gained them a swag of new
fans, and their second album ‘How We Survive’ gained huge exposure and US
airplay… so a strategic disappearance was in order.
Over the later part of the year, around 20 songs were written and arranged by
the band for their third long-player. The power-pop flavour of the first two
albums gave way to a darker, more introspective set of tracks that tip the hat
to the shoegaze sound of the early 90’s, while stripping back the arrangements
to a leaner, tougher, more direct sound.
In early 2011, the band bunkered down in Seacliff Lunatic Asylum, an abandoned
psychiatric hospital near Dunedin, New Zealand, with producer Dale Cotton to
record their upcoming album ‘Constellations’. As singer Phil Usher describes,
“We had a few strange experiences while we were there—hearing voices during
takes, strange sounds, and we also saw a microphone stand move like someone
knocked it.” That strangeness, and the unease of not quite knowing where you
are, informs the sounds on the record.
The new album is sheer psychedelic sophistication, its beating heart urgent and
undeniable. Yet the band is content to let the music build and peak, unhurriedly
and with tangible conviction. Intimate and inscrutable, these songs bend and
fold, stretch out and explode. Guitar-pop mutates into a lush
psycho-geographical map where the band’s headspace mimics the manic contours of
the equally beautiful and punishing New Zealand countryside where the album was
recorded.
In March 2010, Grand Atlantic barnstormed across the US and Canada after
invitations to showcase at SXSW and Canadian Music Week, following extensive
touring of the album in Australia and a growing call from the US powerpop scene.
The release of ‘How We Survive’ in the US prompted radio play on over 50 radio
stations, a glut of media attention and placed them on a bunch of SXSW ‘bands to
watch’ short lists.
Back home, Scene Magazine characterized them best: “How We Survive is classic
guitar pop that leans heavily on Brian Wilson, Ray Davies and The Beatles while
asserting a sonic identity rooted heavily in 90s Brisbane rock...How We Survive
is the best chance yet for this Brisbane band to take on the world.”
Even the massive exposure of their “Gossip Girl” track hasn’t changed their
focus or approach to music. “We’re really proud of what we’ve done on record to
date, but we also wanted to keep evolving and growing as a band. The first two
were done over a long period of between one and two years. This new album was
recorded in 12 days and that created an intense and focused process,” says
Usher. “We’ve really let down our hair, experimented and let things be a lot
more raw than we ever have before. It’s been a frightening, exhilarating and
wild ride!”
March 2011 saw Grand Atlantic return to the US for a repeat tour of both the
East and West coasts, as well as SXSW again. Live, they’re passionate and
intense, a high-energy rock tour-de-force. ‘Constellations’ is due for release
in September 2011.
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