Transitions

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艺人: El Ten Eleven
语种: 英语
厂牌: #
发行时间: 2012年11月06日
专辑类别: 录音室专辑

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The instrumental band El Ten Eleven is set to release their fifth full length album, titled Transitions, on October 2th, 2012. This album will be self-released through the duo’s Fake Record Label and is guaranteed to include lots of beyond skillful guitar trickery and experimental drum beats. El Ten Eleven isn’t just any instrumental band, their guitar loops take twists and turns which keep the tracks exciting and fun.

Sounding more like the work of six musicians rather than the instrumental duo of doubleneck bass/guitar virtuoso Kristian Dunn and acoustic/ electronic drummer Tim Fogarty, the seven-track LP is chock full of the band’s trademark guitar trickery, mesmerizing looping, shape-shifting tempos, intricate time signatures and melodic pop arrangements but also features them experimenting with new sonics, hip-hop drum beats and longer song structures.

The subject matter of Transitions was heavy enough to warrant longer, more complicated songs such as the title track, “Transitions“ a 10-minute roller coaster of unpredictable twists, turns and guitar heroics that plays out like several movements stitched together as one. As the song dips and dives it eventually builds to a triumphant crescendo that’s like the sun coming out after a month long storm.

Although an instrumental band, El Ten Eleven has never really prescribed to the loud/soft post-rock mechanics or bloated arrangements often associated with the genre and are more in line with contemporaries like Maserati, Trans Am and Holy Fuck than the post-rock instrumentals of Explosions in the Sky and Godspeed You! Black Emperor. El Ten Eleven’s compositions instead are more like pop songs with definable verses and choruses, albeit with memorable guitar licks in place of lyrics. While some of the songs are indeed the most technically complex of the band’s career, the duo’s ability to to write catchy, emotional hooks hasn’t been lost on Transitions. On the track, “Thanks Bill,” an ode to Alcoholics Anonymous founder Bill Wilson, shimmering, circuitous guitar lines interweave while a mix of drums and electronic percussion collide resulting in a hypnotic, euphoric melody.

First single, “Yellow Bridges,” surges along like a car racing through the night across one of the many yellow bridges that dot Fogarty’s hometown of Pittsburgh. The cheekily named “No One Died This Time!” celebrates Dunn’s new wave and post-punk upbringing with a charged second half that wouldn’t sound out of place between New Order and The Cure on the dance floor. The ’80s nostalgia continues on ”Tiger Tiger,” a reinterpretation of Duran Duran’s 1983 synth-pop instrumental which features Dunn manipulating his guitar to sound like a synthesizer. Album closer “Lullaby” is as soothing and evocative as its name implies.

Transitions

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