Road records review Of Electric Penguins CD (1 Viewer)

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Check out today's Evening Herald folks.Eamonn Carr interviewed the Electric Penguins.

Thanks for your time

Keith
http://www.myspace.com/electricpenguins

 

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Tonight Electric Penguins support 'Get cape.Wear cape.Fly' @ Spring & Airbrake in Belfast.

Thanks,Keith

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http://www.the-limelight.co.uk/venues.asp
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Electric Penguins: Goodbye From the Electric Penguins Psychonavigation

Let's hope the title isn't meant literally because it'd be a shame if this is the only music we get from the Electric Penguins; at the very least, the 44 minutes the Irish trio offers up here are certainly splendid enough. That Mark Cummins, Paul Murphy, and Sean Quinn named the group after the password Paul McCartney used for his 1960s Cavendish Square pad feels entirely apropos, given the album's heavy reliance on ‘70s instruments (moog, mellotron, Farfisa organ, guitar, drum machine) and simple production methods (apparently there's next to no programming and most instruments and vocals were performed live). The focus is largely on the songs and performances and both acquit themselves just fine and, in some cases, remarkably.
The style is typically low-key, song-based electronica with natural and vocodered singing couched in pristine keyboard-based arrangements. With its gentle merging of piano, synthesizer, and wordless singing, the lovely overture “Gelb” sets an immediately high standard that the rest of the album largely upholds. Wearing its influences on its sleeve, the breezy “Soft Landing” simultaneously evokes Syd Barrett-era Pink Floyd and The Beatles (circa “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds”) while the loping rhythm in “Answer the Phone” recalls Lennon's “Give Peace A Chance” (the “Venus and Mars send their regards” lyric references McCartney too), even if the vocodered singing doesn't. It's also impossible not to think of Sigur Rós during “Too Far” but the song's lulling caress is beautiful nonetheless. One of the album's best songs, “Lonnie,” sounds like an Everything But The Girl song wrapped in slightly different packaging (it even sounds like Tracey Thorn's voice is at the center of the vocal collective) with the song boosted by glistening pop melodies and crowned by an even sweeter chorus. Such derivative echoes don't subtract from the ample listening pleasure the album affords, incidentally.
Flaws? An overly exaggerated vocal on “Supergirl” is a rare weak spot (though it's offset by the song's otherwise lush pop charm and entrancing chorus) and the steely vocoder sound undercuts the otherwise somber character of “Blau.” Despite such modest lapses, Goodbye From The Electric Penguins impresses as a delightful and, frankly, wholly unexpected surprise.
December 2006

 

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Electric Penguins have been invited to play at anewspace art exhibition in 4 Dame Lane this coming Thursday night.Copies of their debut album 'Goodbye from the electric penguins' will be on sale for just €10. Free admission all night!!

Doors 9pm * The band play upstairs in the venue *

All the best,Keith
http://www.myspace.com/electricpenguins


4 Dame Lane press release :

Anewspace christmas extravaganza featuring works by all of the artist we've shown over the last six months on thursday the 14th of December at 8pm in four dame lane..

This a thank you to everyone who supported the shows, looked at the art, told friends and made to them come to the shows, wrote funny things in the toilets, told us we were idiots, tried to steal art and so on and so forth.

We salute all of you and for this we're having a sale so all your loved ones can share in our love.

We've also booked the Electric Penguins to come and play live us stairs plus the wonderful Aoife Nic Canna will be spinning her magic.

in Four Dame Lane Dublin 2 on Thursday the 14th of December at 8pm

The sale will run until sunday the 16th however stocks are limited, so it first come first served.

 

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Repeat 2FM studio session from Electric Penguins

Dan Hegarty's show tonight @ 12am - 2am on RTE 2FM


http://www.rte.ie/2fm/danhegarty/



Thanks,
Keith
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