“
Within the first frenetic minute
of "The Best," Starring fold a delay bubble into a Farfisa freak-out
into a Neu!-ish buildup and shove everything inside a tiny room that's
vibrating with processed drums and tattoo-gun percussion. Then, wait - was that
a jazz flute solo? Like the alphabet-soup title of the full-length album it
appears on, "The Best" packs a sundry spoonful of familiar sounds and
sweet surprises into a restive five-minutes and change." - SPIN
In support of their upcoming new album titled "ABCDEFG-HIJKLMNOP-QRSTUV-WXYZ" out June 12th on Northern Spy Records, Brooklyn-based kraut-punk outfit Starring is announcing an upcoming appearance at this year's Northside Festival taking place June 14th at Brooklyn's Public Assembly. Appearing with the band include Chain and The Gang, Mucca Pazza, Magik Markers, Dope Body, Dustin Wong and more.
The band will also be announcing additional summer tour dates coming soon, including a stop at Spy Music Festival taking place at 285 Kent Ave on July 7th where the band will perform alongside label-mates White-Out + Charles Gayle and others.
Starring Live
05/23/12 Columbus, OH - Ace of Cups ^
05/24/12 St. Louis, MO - El Lenador ^
05/25/12 Chicago, IL - Empty Bottle ^&
06/14/12 Brooklyn, NY - Public Assembly (Strange Victory Touring / Northside Fest Showcase) *
07/07/12 Brooklyn, NY - 285 Kent Ave. (Spy Music Festival) %
^ = w/ Bobby Conn
& = w/ Cave
* = w/ Chain and The Gang, Magik Markers, Mucca Pazza, Dope Body, Dustin Wong and more
% = w/ Dustin Wong + Dan Friel, White Out + Charles Gayle, PC Worship
About Starring:
Northern Spy Records announces a full-length album from avant-rock experimentalists Starring. Playful stalwarts of the Brooklyn DIY scene, last year Starring holed up in Brooklyn’s St. Cecilia’s Church with producer Matt Mehlan (frontman of Skeletons and collaborator with Congoronics vs Rockers) to compose an album of six compositions they call ABCDEFG-HIJKLMNOP-QRSTUV-WXYZ.
Starring’s ABCDEFG-HIJKLMNOP-QRSTUV-WXYZ combines minimalist musical patterns with dreamy poetry to create a new style front-woman Clara Hunter likes to call “sparkle prog.” It captures the frenetic energy of the band’s live show, but here it is overlain with a new palate of synthesizers, delay effects, drum processing, aux percussion, and vocals that create delicate, but sometimes radical juxtapositions between the lyrical and the experimental. Though songs like “the best” and “aphonia” channel the loud, raw, and repetitive “circus punk” of Starring’s early releases, much of this record speaks with a broader sense of expressive depth.
Over the course of the album’s six cuts, choruses soar at monstrous heights framed by mechanical and occult trances. Dead jazz turns up with fuzzy 8-bit solos, whistling synths pipe beneath ghostly choral arrangements, viola lines in Turkish modes swoop into ornamented curls and loops, and singer Clara Hunter’s girlish vocals whisper the record’s secrets with surreal, woozy melodies. Concretely, the album reflects an aesthetic that recalls the classic sounds of European prog rock (Magma, Faust, Neu!), the unhinged grit of 1970’s New York no wave artists like Suicide, the earliest cuts from minimalists like Terry Riley and Philip Glass, and even a dose of post-rock’s strung-out improvisations.
Album art courtesy of Alex Ness
"ABCDEFG-HIJKLMNOP-QRSTUV-WXYZ" Track List:
1. the best
2. ie
3. ---------ooooooooooo
4. aphonia
5. ....7....
6. wo
For more information, visit:
www.starringmusic.com
Starring on Facebook
www.northern-spy.com
In support of their upcoming new album titled "ABCDEFG-HIJKLMNOP-QRSTUV-WXYZ" out June 12th on Northern Spy Records, Brooklyn-based kraut-punk outfit Starring is announcing an upcoming appearance at this year's Northside Festival taking place June 14th at Brooklyn's Public Assembly. Appearing with the band include Chain and The Gang, Mucca Pazza, Magik Markers, Dope Body, Dustin Wong and more.
The band will also be announcing additional summer tour dates coming soon, including a stop at Spy Music Festival taking place at 285 Kent Ave on July 7th where the band will perform alongside label-mates White-Out + Charles Gayle and others.
Starring Live
05/23/12 Columbus, OH - Ace of Cups ^
05/24/12 St. Louis, MO - El Lenador ^
05/25/12 Chicago, IL - Empty Bottle ^&
06/14/12 Brooklyn, NY - Public Assembly (Strange Victory Touring / Northside Fest Showcase) *
07/07/12 Brooklyn, NY - 285 Kent Ave. (Spy Music Festival) %
^ = w/ Bobby Conn
& = w/ Cave
* = w/ Chain and The Gang, Magik Markers, Mucca Pazza, Dope Body, Dustin Wong and more
% = w/ Dustin Wong + Dan Friel, White Out + Charles Gayle, PC Worship
About Starring:
Northern Spy Records announces a full-length album from avant-rock experimentalists Starring. Playful stalwarts of the Brooklyn DIY scene, last year Starring holed up in Brooklyn’s St. Cecilia’s Church with producer Matt Mehlan (frontman of Skeletons and collaborator with Congoronics vs Rockers) to compose an album of six compositions they call ABCDEFG-HIJKLMNOP-QRSTUV-WXYZ.
Starring’s ABCDEFG-HIJKLMNOP-QRSTUV-WXYZ combines minimalist musical patterns with dreamy poetry to create a new style front-woman Clara Hunter likes to call “sparkle prog.” It captures the frenetic energy of the band’s live show, but here it is overlain with a new palate of synthesizers, delay effects, drum processing, aux percussion, and vocals that create delicate, but sometimes radical juxtapositions between the lyrical and the experimental. Though songs like “the best” and “aphonia” channel the loud, raw, and repetitive “circus punk” of Starring’s early releases, much of this record speaks with a broader sense of expressive depth.
Over the course of the album’s six cuts, choruses soar at monstrous heights framed by mechanical and occult trances. Dead jazz turns up with fuzzy 8-bit solos, whistling synths pipe beneath ghostly choral arrangements, viola lines in Turkish modes swoop into ornamented curls and loops, and singer Clara Hunter’s girlish vocals whisper the record’s secrets with surreal, woozy melodies. Concretely, the album reflects an aesthetic that recalls the classic sounds of European prog rock (Magma, Faust, Neu!), the unhinged grit of 1970’s New York no wave artists like Suicide, the earliest cuts from minimalists like Terry Riley and Philip Glass, and even a dose of post-rock’s strung-out improvisations.
Album art courtesy of Alex Ness
"ABCDEFG-HIJKLMNOP-QRSTUV-WXYZ" Track List:
1. the best
2. ie
3. ---------ooooooooooo
4. aphonia
5. ....7....
6. wo
For more information, visit:
www.starringmusic.com
Starring on Facebook
www.northern-spy.com
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