Thing of the Day
The big Big Sir giveaway
July
29th 2011
SARGENT HOUSE RECORDS celebrate the completion of the new BIG SIR album by making the previous album available for free for this weekend only….
Seems
that, after a five year wait, Big Sir have just completed their third
album. The album isn’t actually out until January 12th. Hang on though,
it may not be out until next year but we tell you about this today
because the good people of Sargent House have, in celebration of the
completion of said new album, made the band’s previous album, Und Die Scheibe Andert Sich Immer available as a free download for this weekend only…
Big Sir are Lisa Papineau and Juan Alderete, the new album will a whole load of guest players, including Cedric Bixler Xavala on drums.
Sargent
House say “We’ve already been talking a lot about Lisa and Juan’s other
projects; Sargent House put out Lisa Papineau’s solo album Red Trees
in 2010 and is releasing the new EP she just did with our own
Matthew Embree, under the moniker ME&LP, entitled Chez
Raymond on August 9, 2011. Juan plays bass in The Mars Volta,
as well as in the Omar Rodriguez Lopez Group and Vato Negro. We figured
it was time to start talking about their new Big Sir album
and to introduce to you this music if you are not familiar already. So
we will be giving away for FREE a download of their last album entitled Und Die Scheiße Ändert Sich Immer all
weekend, just enter your email address - we won’t spam you and you can
unsubscribe anytime if you don’t want any further news from Big Sir.
Enjoy and share it with friends!”
If you’re not familiar with Und Die Scheibe Andert,
then go treat yourselves to some rather refined, female-voiced,
soothing alternative groove that comes laced with a healthy helping of
mellow funk, some fine jazz flavoured prog and some chunky
undercurrents that pull those elements towards the kind of grooved-out
earfood you’d expect from people associated with the bass end of The
Mars Volta.
Clever details, alternative
colour, different shades – some of it sounds like a Californian take on
Bristol trip-hop, some of it sounds like Portishead via somewhere like
Philadelphia, most of it sound like mellow sunshine (I’m pretty sure
that isn’t only because I just downloaded it time for the warm
mellowness of the sinking London summer evening sun), Some of it just
gets on a Seventies-flavoured alt.rock groove, always with the little
details and the cruising along Santa Monica freeway, once they hit the
Westside… hey look, you don’t need a review of a five year old album,
grab it now, they’ve giving it to you free for the weekend, go download
it, have a listen, what could possibly go wrong?
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