Friday, 22 February 2008Grand National - Animal Sounds Artist: Grand National Title: Animal Sounds Label: Sunday Best Recordings Quantity Pressed: 500 Release Date: 25th Feb 2008 Much like the Knife's 'Silent Shout' that seemed to come out of nowhere, channeling the interesting parts of the 80's keyboard age, Grand national has intimately constructed the sound of calculation. Every keyboard note and high hat 24bit sample has been tuned for maximum reminiscence. The first single from their second album is everything musically that the update of the Miami Vice film was not: capturing that particular place in time in feeling, not necessarily through all the ridiculous fashionable forgettable elements. It's that inexhaustible excess maybe that they are drawing on, the thrill of this new technology and exploiting the unfamiliar sound to it's limits of perfection. Digital for the very first time. This could easily have found itself into those authentic 80's period films and the band has extensively studied and rehearsed this particular sound, playing in various cover bands to pay the bills and avoid a day job. As if they were a long lost band who opened for Duran Duran, or Human League, this meticulous craft in songwriting can these days be done unencumbered by an expensive studio and engineers on a laptop at the kitchen table, and Grand National is taking this freedom and injecting some feeling into the typically cold techno approach to the samples and loops being king. 500 pressed seems like an awfully small amount for where this band is supposed to be headed, this hits Monday and don't wait on it. Jason Dean Labels: animal sounds, duran duran, Grand National, miami vice, sundays best recordings, the knife
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