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 Enlarge | Artist: Parts & Labor
Label: Jagjaguwar
Customer Rating:  1 Reviews
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| Tracks
- Satellites
- Nowheres Nigh
- Mount Misery
- Little Ones
- Ceasing Now, The
- Wedding In A Wasteland
- Prefix Free
- Solemn Show World
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| Editorial Reviews
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Brooklyn rock foursome Parts & Labor aims high, sometimes quite literally. The band’s fourth album, Receivers, opens with an epically sad elegy to an unspecified number of suicidal satellites. Meanwhile, the instruments burn intense musical fuel, piling layer upon layer of guitar, keyboard, drums, and billowing vocal harmonies atop a muscular quarter-note pulse rendered at relentless tempo, and the whole sonic cavalcade rockets forth at top volume. In all, “Satellites” may be the most grandiose statement of intention from an indie-rock album in years. Not that it’s totally unprecedented. Core members Dan Friel (keyboards, vocals) and BJ Warshaw (bass, vocals) already traded in gargantuan noise and imaginative songwriting on the notable Stay Afraid (2006) and Mapmakers (2007). But newly armed with guitarist Sarah Lipstate and drummer Joseph Wong, Parts & Labor have at last begun flirting with genius. In their twisted reconfiguring of popularly recognizable musical elements, the band lets shine the rock populism that distinguishes this masterpiece from its merely suggestive predecessors. True, there are feral aspects to Receivers: frequently indulgent codas, Friel’s voice (“Mount Misery,” “Wedding in a Wasteland”), and bagpipes (“Little Ones”). Each of the album’s eight songs drill through merciless decibel levels, draw filthy lyrical landscapes, and apologize for nothing. Yet ultimately, Parts & Labor offer an equal share of nirvana in return. --Jason Kirk
Product Description
This Brooklyn noise punk outfit has dramatically altered their wall of sound on their fourth album. It focuses on open spaces, longer movements, expansive arrangements, and loftier goals. Though they've maintained their love affair with glitchy oscillations and anthemic vocals, they're now a mature art-rock quartet. This is a heady mix of psych, noise, and pop influenced by the arty minimalism of Wire, the surreal pop of early Eno, and the spaced out psychedelia of "Dark Side"-era Pink Floyd. LP contains digital download coupon for MP3s of the entire album.
Album Description
Parts & Labor's lyrics, like their music, seek stability within the chaos. Lyrically, Receivers continues Parts & Labor's obsessions with technology gone sinister, post-industrial paranoia, and cultural divides. "Satellites" envisions surveillance machines growing bored watching humans and then hurling themselves into the sun. "Nowheres Nigh" and "Solemn Show World" meditate upon the seemingly endless homogeny of exurban American highways. However, the band's questions this time point more inwardly; these are less calls to arms than they are calls to self-improvement. For every pessimistic observation comes a positive declaration.
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| Customer Reviews
Consistently surprising and an unexpected pleasure October 27, 2008
RadioNDN (Midwestern USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The new album from Brooklyn based band Parts & Labor is a consistently surprising effort, combining noise, prog and psychedelic rock, often with 70's heavy metal guitar backdrop, into an experimental mix that for the first half of the album often doesn't even seem like the same band from track to track. They also layer on some electronic flourishes and display a real talent for a pop hook, as with the irresistible "Nowheres Nigh." Things slow down a bit at the midpoint with "The Ceasing Now," but pick up again with the somewhat regal sounding ballad "Wedding In A Wasteland" and the prog rock workout "Prefix Now," both of which have an epic sweep about them. This is a pretty cool record, and having not listened to Parts & Labor in the past, this was an unexpected pleasure. Standout cuts: "Satellites," "Nowheres Nigh," "Mount Misery" and "Wedding In A Wasteland."
| Product Specifications
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 52133
UPC: 656605213323
EAN: 0656605213323
Release Date: October 21, 2008
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