FOGGY NOTIONS PRESENTS
NO KIDS (P:ANO/TOMLAB)
WHELANS, SATURDAY MAY 24TH
TICKETS FROM WAV, ROAD, CITY DISCS, TICKETS.IE
www.myspace.com/nokidsband
No Kids are Julia Chirka, Justin Kellam and Nick Krgovich of the critically revered pop band P:ANO along with a number of other contributors. Work on their first album Come Into My House was recently completed at The Hive Studios.
“Come Into My House is a studied synthesis of forms, a sweetly sad song cycle about loneliness and domesticity, and a totally singular pop record.” - The Stranger
RECORD OF THE MONTH, February 2008 - Vice Magaine Germany
“It could well be one of the unlikely contenders for record of the year." - AngryApe
“This Canadian trio have made what might be one of the most perfect records of 2008 with Come Into My House, an album inspired equally by Janet Jackson, '40s musicals and Arthur Russell... There's really not enough time to fully describe what to expect out of this one, you'll have to try it for yourself.” - Austinist
Come Into My House (which takes its name from a 1989 Queen Latifah dance single) is the first release by Vancouver, Canada trio No Kids. Recorded at The Hive Studio in Vancouver (with the help of a sizeable grant from the Canadian government and the talents of nine guest musicians), Come Into My House achieves an unexpected cohesiveness despite the wide range of musical styles covered in its forty-one minutes. Golden era Hollywood musicals, Jam & Lewis-inspired production techniques, the icy displacement of contemporary R'n'B, and the breadth of Arthur Russell's, disco, pop, and avant-garde compositional work are referenced and married together by novelistic narrative strains, a lush instrumental palette, and a cinematic atmosphere.
Come Into My House is an album set in the perpetual Autumn New England of Douglas Sirk's classic melodramas. Krgovich's songs are populated by stuffy, lonely, Ivy League educated recluses with amazing wardrobes, languishing in empty beach houses while the leaves whip past enormous picture windows. Like the characters in an Alex Katz painting coming to life and bursting into song, Come Into My House turns the mundane into cinemascopic musical extravaganza. It's easy to imagine Busby Berkeley-esque dance numbers for any one of these twelve tracks.
Ambitious to the point of absurdity, Come Into My House is an album too grand to ignore.
The first single, “For Halloween,” capitalizes on elaborate vocal arrangements, thick bass, skittering rhythms, and an unexpected bassoon break to deliver an endlessly listenable piece of pop music.
NO KIDS (P:ANO/TOMLAB)
WHELANS, SATURDAY MAY 24TH
TICKETS FROM WAV, ROAD, CITY DISCS, TICKETS.IE
www.myspace.com/nokidsband
No Kids are Julia Chirka, Justin Kellam and Nick Krgovich of the critically revered pop band P:ANO along with a number of other contributors. Work on their first album Come Into My House was recently completed at The Hive Studios.
“Come Into My House is a studied synthesis of forms, a sweetly sad song cycle about loneliness and domesticity, and a totally singular pop record.” - The Stranger
RECORD OF THE MONTH, February 2008 - Vice Magaine Germany
“It could well be one of the unlikely contenders for record of the year." - AngryApe
“This Canadian trio have made what might be one of the most perfect records of 2008 with Come Into My House, an album inspired equally by Janet Jackson, '40s musicals and Arthur Russell... There's really not enough time to fully describe what to expect out of this one, you'll have to try it for yourself.” - Austinist
Come Into My House (which takes its name from a 1989 Queen Latifah dance single) is the first release by Vancouver, Canada trio No Kids. Recorded at The Hive Studio in Vancouver (with the help of a sizeable grant from the Canadian government and the talents of nine guest musicians), Come Into My House achieves an unexpected cohesiveness despite the wide range of musical styles covered in its forty-one minutes. Golden era Hollywood musicals, Jam & Lewis-inspired production techniques, the icy displacement of contemporary R'n'B, and the breadth of Arthur Russell's, disco, pop, and avant-garde compositional work are referenced and married together by novelistic narrative strains, a lush instrumental palette, and a cinematic atmosphere.
Come Into My House is an album set in the perpetual Autumn New England of Douglas Sirk's classic melodramas. Krgovich's songs are populated by stuffy, lonely, Ivy League educated recluses with amazing wardrobes, languishing in empty beach houses while the leaves whip past enormous picture windows. Like the characters in an Alex Katz painting coming to life and bursting into song, Come Into My House turns the mundane into cinemascopic musical extravaganza. It's easy to imagine Busby Berkeley-esque dance numbers for any one of these twelve tracks.
Ambitious to the point of absurdity, Come Into My House is an album too grand to ignore.
The first single, “For Halloween,” capitalizes on elaborate vocal arrangements, thick bass, skittering rhythms, and an unexpected bassoon break to deliver an endlessly listenable piece of pop music.
