skinny wolves
Well-Known Member
Skinny Wolves Presents:
SHOOTING SPIRES (NYC/USA, Cardboard Recs. BJ from Parts & Labor, side project)
Somadrone
Children Under Hoof
Thursday 5th March
Transformer (Below Thomas Reads), Dame St, Dublin 2
Followed by KABOOGIE CLUB
http://www.myspace.com/kaboogiemusic
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SHOOTING SPIRES
www.myspace.com/shootingspires
Shooting Spires is the bedroom art-pop project of BJ Warshaw, bassist and vocalist for Parts & Labor. Retreating from the Brooklyn stalwarts and their extroverted noise-punk, his self-titled debut album is an agoraphobic mix of soaring choruses and tormented electronics, fueled on Brian Eno, Boredoms and Peter Gabriel. Warshaw showcases his ability to harness drone, noise, tweaked electronics and singed circuits: the violent hum of Sunroof! juxtaposed against hooks catchy enough for fans of TV on the Radio.
He fuses off-kilter electronic beats, oscillator blips, glitchy loops, toy keyboards, distorted guitars, saxophone, drums and found percussion. All of this is the therapeutic underscore to lyrics about failed relationships (”Embers”), redemption in the face of seemingly inescapable cycles (”Quarantine”), the persistent threat of personal and global catastrophe (”Alive And Well”) and finding solace in decay (”Right”).
- Cardboard Records
Selected Reviews of “Shooting Spires”:
”[Warshaw’s] one-man-band debut album, a surprisingly epic production that sounds like the work of several people despite its bedroom origins, has gorgeous washes of electric guitar along with countless space-defining and space-erasing effects. With the rusty rasp of TV on the Radio’s Tunde Adebimpe (SS has toured with the band), Warshaw narrates some indecipherable but still memorable high-altitude night cruises. This is Boris rendered indie for the attention deficient - a storyboarded version of drone that occasionally asks us to dance, shimmy, or merely nod. But there’s no shoegazing or drug-taking required; it’s too down-to-earth for that.” - Pitchfork
“The temptation remains to criticize Shooting Spires by comparing it to that perfect, ingenious slab of experimental pop that acts as prime influence, to criticize the vocals for being more textural and less outlandishly in-your-face, the lyrics for being conventional in their attempts at obscurity rather than skirting the line between profound and playfully non sequitur. But Shooting Spires is its own disc, and by that standard, it’s a great solo debut. It shows Warshaw to have an ear for creating melodies with almost religious resonance, and a mind for maintaining them as he shreds their fundamental structure and plays with their decay.” – Dusted Magazine
“While Shooting Spires maintains Parts and Labor’s love of messy electronics, Warshaw eschews the aggression for some anthemic pop songs. Opener “Right” builds a monstrous melody from warbling synths and a tasteful horn section that, underneath the chaos, recalls David Bowie. “Quarantine” is even louder, with a large, fuzzy bassline that often dominates the song, but still retains a pop structure. “At Last At Least” is an alarmingly minimal closer, employing strummed guitar before a searing descent into white noise. Addictively noisy but ultimately listenable, Shooting Spires is another quality release from Warshaw’s head.” – XLR8R
“Noisy pop clamor abounds on Shooting Spires but where Parts & Labor root there sound in a cross between blistering spazz punk and noise, this feels more rooted in the early days of noise-pop. This is a true bedroom fuzz bucket of an album. Slower and more telling than his past outputs, but in keeping true to his nature Warsaw doesn’t let the cliché of the singer songwriter solo project creep into view. Instead Warsaw does what he does best, lays the distortion on thick, sounding like he’s permanently duct taped a busted megaphone to his face and his Casio may have come without all the required resistors.” - Pineywoodspicknparlor.com
SOMADRONE
http://www.myspace.com/iamsomadrone
Incepted in 1995, Somadrone began as a project to document some home recordings from old tape machines and 4-track recorders. This was release in 1999 as a 10” single limited to 100 copies. The latter years involved playing, recording and touring in Europe and America with Redneck Manifesto, Connect Four Orchestra, Goodtime John and Jape. Instruments such as Vibraphone, Harp, Theremin, Indian Drone Machines and Analogue Synths feature on 2005’s “Fuzzing Away To A Whisper” released Sept 05 on Trust Me I’m a Theif records. These collections of recordings are 2 CDS from six years of producing. They range from electro-acoustic pieces to pop music and incorporate elements of early Kraftwerk, Broadcast, Brian Eno and Steve Reich. While pursuing a PhD in Music, Somadrone’s third album “Of Pattern and Purpose” was assembled. The first to incorporate vocal accompaniment, it is composed mostly of miniature symphonies and electronic interludes.
CHILDREN UNDER HOOF
http://www.myspace.com/childrenunderhoof
Children Under Hoof - Breaking The Waves Review
"Funereally paced, carefully layered and drenched in reverb, Breaking the Waves is as refined a sensory experience as you are likely to find. Nothing happens here that doesn't sound considered, and the amalgam is lush and full, the late-summer to member Patrick Kelleher's solo winter. A tip: give it the volume it deserves, and sit back as the ebbs and flows wash over you." - Analogue Magazine
SHOOTING SPIRES (NYC/USA, Cardboard Recs. BJ from Parts & Labor, side project)
Somadrone
Children Under Hoof
Thursday 5th March
Transformer (Below Thomas Reads), Dame St, Dublin 2
Followed by KABOOGIE CLUB
http://www.myspace.com/kaboogiemusic
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
SHOOTING SPIRES
www.myspace.com/shootingspires
Shooting Spires is the bedroom art-pop project of BJ Warshaw, bassist and vocalist for Parts & Labor. Retreating from the Brooklyn stalwarts and their extroverted noise-punk, his self-titled debut album is an agoraphobic mix of soaring choruses and tormented electronics, fueled on Brian Eno, Boredoms and Peter Gabriel. Warshaw showcases his ability to harness drone, noise, tweaked electronics and singed circuits: the violent hum of Sunroof! juxtaposed against hooks catchy enough for fans of TV on the Radio.
He fuses off-kilter electronic beats, oscillator blips, glitchy loops, toy keyboards, distorted guitars, saxophone, drums and found percussion. All of this is the therapeutic underscore to lyrics about failed relationships (”Embers”), redemption in the face of seemingly inescapable cycles (”Quarantine”), the persistent threat of personal and global catastrophe (”Alive And Well”) and finding solace in decay (”Right”).
- Cardboard Records
Selected Reviews of “Shooting Spires”:
”[Warshaw’s] one-man-band debut album, a surprisingly epic production that sounds like the work of several people despite its bedroom origins, has gorgeous washes of electric guitar along with countless space-defining and space-erasing effects. With the rusty rasp of TV on the Radio’s Tunde Adebimpe (SS has toured with the band), Warshaw narrates some indecipherable but still memorable high-altitude night cruises. This is Boris rendered indie for the attention deficient - a storyboarded version of drone that occasionally asks us to dance, shimmy, or merely nod. But there’s no shoegazing or drug-taking required; it’s too down-to-earth for that.” - Pitchfork
“The temptation remains to criticize Shooting Spires by comparing it to that perfect, ingenious slab of experimental pop that acts as prime influence, to criticize the vocals for being more textural and less outlandishly in-your-face, the lyrics for being conventional in their attempts at obscurity rather than skirting the line between profound and playfully non sequitur. But Shooting Spires is its own disc, and by that standard, it’s a great solo debut. It shows Warshaw to have an ear for creating melodies with almost religious resonance, and a mind for maintaining them as he shreds their fundamental structure and plays with their decay.” – Dusted Magazine
“While Shooting Spires maintains Parts and Labor’s love of messy electronics, Warshaw eschews the aggression for some anthemic pop songs. Opener “Right” builds a monstrous melody from warbling synths and a tasteful horn section that, underneath the chaos, recalls David Bowie. “Quarantine” is even louder, with a large, fuzzy bassline that often dominates the song, but still retains a pop structure. “At Last At Least” is an alarmingly minimal closer, employing strummed guitar before a searing descent into white noise. Addictively noisy but ultimately listenable, Shooting Spires is another quality release from Warshaw’s head.” – XLR8R
“Noisy pop clamor abounds on Shooting Spires but where Parts & Labor root there sound in a cross between blistering spazz punk and noise, this feels more rooted in the early days of noise-pop. This is a true bedroom fuzz bucket of an album. Slower and more telling than his past outputs, but in keeping true to his nature Warsaw doesn’t let the cliché of the singer songwriter solo project creep into view. Instead Warsaw does what he does best, lays the distortion on thick, sounding like he’s permanently duct taped a busted megaphone to his face and his Casio may have come without all the required resistors.” - Pineywoodspicknparlor.com
SOMADRONE
http://www.myspace.com/iamsomadrone
Incepted in 1995, Somadrone began as a project to document some home recordings from old tape machines and 4-track recorders. This was release in 1999 as a 10” single limited to 100 copies. The latter years involved playing, recording and touring in Europe and America with Redneck Manifesto, Connect Four Orchestra, Goodtime John and Jape. Instruments such as Vibraphone, Harp, Theremin, Indian Drone Machines and Analogue Synths feature on 2005’s “Fuzzing Away To A Whisper” released Sept 05 on Trust Me I’m a Theif records. These collections of recordings are 2 CDS from six years of producing. They range from electro-acoustic pieces to pop music and incorporate elements of early Kraftwerk, Broadcast, Brian Eno and Steve Reich. While pursuing a PhD in Music, Somadrone’s third album “Of Pattern and Purpose” was assembled. The first to incorporate vocal accompaniment, it is composed mostly of miniature symphonies and electronic interludes.
CHILDREN UNDER HOOF
http://www.myspace.com/childrenunderhoof
Children Under Hoof - Breaking The Waves Review
"Funereally paced, carefully layered and drenched in reverb, Breaking the Waves is as refined a sensory experience as you are likely to find. Nothing happens here that doesn't sound considered, and the amalgam is lush and full, the late-summer to member Patrick Kelleher's solo winter. A tip: give it the volume it deserves, and sit back as the ebbs and flows wash over you." - Analogue Magazine
