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Tracklisting:
1. Poems For Freaks
2. Sticks And Stones
3. 25
4. NYC (Money Money)
5. Kill Me Know (Or You Never Will)
6. Stuff In Your Pocket
7. One More Hit
8. Six Pieds Sous Terre
9. New Variety
10. Idealize
‘Sticks
and Stones’ embodies the power and dynamism of the band’s notable live
performance, typifying the energy, fury and blistering musicianship of
the band in a memorable four-minute blast.
Formed five years
ago in Paris, Underground Railroad released their debut album ‘Twisted
Trees’ on One Little Indian in the summer of last year – a ferocious
squall of a record crystallising the band’s love for post-punk and New
York’s No Wave scene, it won them a passionate following through its
wholly uncompromising nature.
“Dark French post-rock…sounds like Pixies covering Psychocandy” NME
“Black-hearted avant punk…whiplashing climaxes.” Metro
“A sound to frighten Gallows back into the tattoo parlour.” The Fly
“Awesome.” Jason McGerr (Death Cab For Cutie)
Drummer
Raphael Mura, guitarist Marion Andrau (who both take lead vocal duties)
and bassist/backing vocalist JB Ganivet return in the latter half of
2008 with ‘Sticks and Stones’, a new album that smoothes over the
jagged edges of their debut, imbuing upon them a strong melodic drive,
without losing a trace of the band’s trademark integrity.
Recorded
in Seattle at the dawn of 2008 with renowned producer John Goodmanson
at its helm (Death Cab For Cutie, Blood Brothers, and Sleater Kinney),
it sees Underground Railroad gain maturity without sacrificing their
angular, noisy leanings; a Velvet Underground / Jesus and Mary Chain
psychedelic swirl is discernible in the hypnotic ‘Stuff in Your
Pocket’, while the simple, overdrive-led buzz of Pixies or Sebadoh is
palpable in the heady fury of tracks like ‘Kill Me Now (Or You Never
Will)’. The record also features Seattle’s prodigal cello player Phil
A. Peterson, whose arrangements on ‘Poems For Freaks’ or ‘Six Pieds
Sous Terre’ lend these songs an unabashed, epic edge.
“Dark
French post-rock that sounds like Pixies covering ‘Psychocandy’. So
melodic it made our workie cry a bit”. NME, On The Stereo May 2008 |
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