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Following the news of their upcoming new album "Future Ways" out this Fall on Recess Records, Chicago-based psyche-pop / punk band Treasure Fleet(featuring members of The Arrivals, Smoking Popes, The Lawrence Arms and more) have premiered the first new song from their latest release titled "Nitsa" currently streaming exclusively at CMJ.com.
Originally recorded prior to this spring's "Cocamotion" LP at Atlas Studios in Chicago, and planned to be the band's first album, "Future Ways" is said to be the more straight ahead punk album of the two and features some of the band's most natural and unhinged moments. Says Recess label owner Todd Congelliere, "I don't know what album I like better. The first or second one? Because I don't even know which is the first or second one."
In support of their new release, Treasure Fleet will be announcing upcoming US tour dates taking place in late 2012 / early 2013, details coming soon.
"Future Ways" Track List:
1. Future Ways
2. The Well
3. Fat Ones
4. Treasure Fleet
5. Nitsa
6. Lovers' Arms
7. Saxsa
8. Revenge
9. The Girls Who Run Together
10. The Clockmaker
11. I've Lost My Everything
About Treasure Fleet:
In summer 2007, just on the heels of recording “Marvels of Industry” with his band the Arrivals, Isaac Thotz went on a month long binge of drink and drugs and 1960’s psychedelic rock that ended with a self-recorded twelve song demo of acoustic psychedelic pop songs, a collection sounding like Syd Barrett outtakes. At the end of the month, the Arrivals went on tour with Underground Railroad to Candyland, where Isaac showed his recordings to Todd Congelliere (of URTC and owner of Recess Records) and by the end of that week, on a rooftop party at a tenement in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, they’d resolved to start their new mod-psych band.
Isaac joined a project Todd C. had been doing with the members of the Dios Malos in L.A., under the name Bible Children. They did a handful of shows around L.A. and Chicago, recorded a demo, and broke up in 2009 under the stress of long distance. In summer 2010, Thotz restarted the effort with friends and local Chicago musicians Neil Hennessy (of the Lawrence Arms) on bass, Dave Merriman (of the Arrivals) on keys, Mike Oberlin (of Sass Dragons) on drums, and Eli Caterer (of Smoking Popes) on lead guitar. Now called Treasure Fleet, the band went into Atlas Studios in Chicago in March 2011, intending to re-record a couple of of those early demos, maybe to self-release a seven inch. They ended up spending five days at Atlas and recording an eleven song mod-rock epic. With no plans for a proper release and busy summer schedules with their other bands, that record sat on the shelf, half-mixed and un-released. Despite the unfinished Atlas recordings, in December 2011, Treasure Fleet decided to self-record yet another album; which they did, in part at the loft and show-space where drummer Mike Oberlin lived, Lucky Gator, and in part at Isaac Thotz’s apartment and attic. This new record is: “Cocamotion.”
“Cocamotion”, Treasure Fleet’s debut release, is a melange of mod and psych inspired indie rock. Moving from the surfy “Coca Mama”, a tweaked out Santo & Johnny semi-instrumental, to the new wave electro-punk “Vice”, from the the quirky Who-rock of “Black Rag”, to the Kink-ish camp of “Proud Mary”, the Morricone meets Clash “Ghost Town”, to the Pink Floyd tinged “Trapeze Artist” and “High on a bicycle”, “Cocamotion” is a psychpop acid trip though the history of rock n’ roll. If MGMT had come of age with the hard rocking Who or Nirvana rather than arty Brian Eno, “Congratulations” would have been Treasure Fleet’s “Cocamotion”. And with bands like Underground Railroad to Candyland, Lenguas Largas, Pangea, this new psych sound is punk’s weird, dirty, drugged-out answer the folk-punk that’s dominated the scene for the last decade.
Treasure Fleet has recently returned from a month-long East Coast and Midwestern tour with Andrew Jackson Jihad and Joyce Manor this past April. Midwestern and West Coast tours are planned for summer 2012. The full-length album recorded at Atlas, what will eventually be their second release, is due out early this fall.
For more information, visit:
The Treasure Fleet on Facebook
www.recessrecords.com
Following the news of their upcoming new album "Future Ways" out this Fall on Recess Records, Chicago-based psyche-pop / punk band Treasure Fleet(featuring members of The Arrivals, Smoking Popes, The Lawrence Arms and more) have premiered the first new song from their latest release titled "Nitsa" currently streaming exclusively at CMJ.com.
Originally recorded prior to this spring's "Cocamotion" LP at Atlas Studios in Chicago, and planned to be the band's first album, "Future Ways" is said to be the more straight ahead punk album of the two and features some of the band's most natural and unhinged moments. Says Recess label owner Todd Congelliere, "I don't know what album I like better. The first or second one? Because I don't even know which is the first or second one."
In support of their new release, Treasure Fleet will be announcing upcoming US tour dates taking place in late 2012 / early 2013, details coming soon.
"Future Ways" Track List:
1. Future Ways
2. The Well
3. Fat Ones
4. Treasure Fleet
5. Nitsa
6. Lovers' Arms
7. Saxsa
8. Revenge
9. The Girls Who Run Together
10. The Clockmaker
11. I've Lost My Everything
About Treasure Fleet:
In summer 2007, just on the heels of recording “Marvels of Industry” with his band the Arrivals, Isaac Thotz went on a month long binge of drink and drugs and 1960’s psychedelic rock that ended with a self-recorded twelve song demo of acoustic psychedelic pop songs, a collection sounding like Syd Barrett outtakes. At the end of the month, the Arrivals went on tour with Underground Railroad to Candyland, where Isaac showed his recordings to Todd Congelliere (of URTC and owner of Recess Records) and by the end of that week, on a rooftop party at a tenement in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, they’d resolved to start their new mod-psych band.
Isaac joined a project Todd C. had been doing with the members of the Dios Malos in L.A., under the name Bible Children. They did a handful of shows around L.A. and Chicago, recorded a demo, and broke up in 2009 under the stress of long distance. In summer 2010, Thotz restarted the effort with friends and local Chicago musicians Neil Hennessy (of the Lawrence Arms) on bass, Dave Merriman (of the Arrivals) on keys, Mike Oberlin (of Sass Dragons) on drums, and Eli Caterer (of Smoking Popes) on lead guitar. Now called Treasure Fleet, the band went into Atlas Studios in Chicago in March 2011, intending to re-record a couple of of those early demos, maybe to self-release a seven inch. They ended up spending five days at Atlas and recording an eleven song mod-rock epic. With no plans for a proper release and busy summer schedules with their other bands, that record sat on the shelf, half-mixed and un-released. Despite the unfinished Atlas recordings, in December 2011, Treasure Fleet decided to self-record yet another album; which they did, in part at the loft and show-space where drummer Mike Oberlin lived, Lucky Gator, and in part at Isaac Thotz’s apartment and attic. This new record is: “Cocamotion.”
“Cocamotion”, Treasure Fleet’s debut release, is a melange of mod and psych inspired indie rock. Moving from the surfy “Coca Mama”, a tweaked out Santo & Johnny semi-instrumental, to the new wave electro-punk “Vice”, from the the quirky Who-rock of “Black Rag”, to the Kink-ish camp of “Proud Mary”, the Morricone meets Clash “Ghost Town”, to the Pink Floyd tinged “Trapeze Artist” and “High on a bicycle”, “Cocamotion” is a psychpop acid trip though the history of rock n’ roll. If MGMT had come of age with the hard rocking Who or Nirvana rather than arty Brian Eno, “Congratulations” would have been Treasure Fleet’s “Cocamotion”. And with bands like Underground Railroad to Candyland, Lenguas Largas, Pangea, this new psych sound is punk’s weird, dirty, drugged-out answer the folk-punk that’s dominated the scene for the last decade.
Treasure Fleet has recently returned from a month-long East Coast and Midwestern tour with Andrew Jackson Jihad and Joyce Manor this past April. Midwestern and West Coast tours are planned for summer 2012. The full-length album recorded at Atlas, what will eventually be their second release, is due out early this fall.
For more information, visit:
The Treasure Fleet on Facebook
www.recessrecords.com
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