Credit: Dan Monick
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Download: Sweet Valley's Eternal Champ -
Following up on the success of last month's Stay Calm,
Sweet Valley is at it again with a new mixtape, Eternal Champ, from
Fool's Gold. The mixtape is available for free download at the Sweet Valley
bandcamp here.
Sweet Valley is currently on tour with GZA and Killer Mike
and the trio have announced even more tour dates so be sure to catch them
when they grace your hometown. In addition to Sweet Valley DJ sets, Nathan
Williams (Sweet Valley, Wavves) will be playing guitar for GZA while Liquid
Swords is performed in it's entirety. Check out all the tour dates at Pitchfork or scroll down to see them listed below.
About Sweet Valley
Sweet Valley is a lysergic postcard from the outer reaches
of Pop, U.S.A. It is your summer as a black hole. It is a place, a Bermuda
Triangle-like place, where cannabis crumbs, spilt beer, record dust and that
mysterious shit you had to blow out of game cartridges all collect as if
pulled by some gigantic junkyard magnet. It is a stitched-up Frankenstein's
monster of old happy notions resurrected but not quite the same, breaking the
bandstand as it bobs its swollen, fuzz-addled head to unheard rhythms. Sweet
Valley is a blood pact between two brothers, Nathan and Kynan Williams, gone
awesomely off the rails.
It happened like this: Nathan, having done well for
himself with a thing called Wavves, bought himself a house in Los Angeles.
Kynan, five years the younger, was still living at home, making strange
electronic pop under their parents' roof in San Diego. Nathan offered Kynan a
room for free, on one condition: that they start a group called Sweet Valley
and see what that sounds like (this deal partly motivated by a fear that
younger brother, unless distracted, would smoke all of older brother's weed).
In the first two weeks of their new arrangement, the pair produced the nine
songs that make up their debut beat tape,
Stay Calm, now the duo has just made Eternal
Champ available for free via Fool's Gold.
Bonding over a mutual love for the left-field loops and
blunted grooves of DJ Shadow, Dipset, J Dilla and DJ Screw, the Williamses
worked out a rhythm. In the morning, they dig through their vinyl in search
of samples. They cut 'em to fit, arrange via MPC and Abelton Live, and then
play whatever's needed-keys, bass, guitar, glockenspiel, Theremin. They don't
write out melodies. They don't do a buncha takes. They break to play
videogames (12 systems' worth, with close to 200 NES games alone), whose
lo-bit FX then become the source material for more music still. After six
months, they'd made five albums.
Sweet Valley
Eternal Champ
(Fool's Gold)
September 17th, 2012
1. One
2. Where Will I Go
3. Bros Beyond
4. Stone
5. Chaos Speed
6. Eternal Champ
7. Motorcycle Renegade
8. Spirit Temple
9. The Great Bay Shines
10. Into The Forest
11. Golden Gauntlet
12. No Harm
13. Sentimental Trash
Tour Dates
09-17 Pittsburgh, PA - Altar Bar *
09-18 Cleveland, OH - Grog Shop *
09-19 Chicago, IL - Metro *
09-20 Minneapolis, MN - First Avenue *
09-22 Denver, CO - Summit Music Hall *
09-25 San Francisco, CA - Fillmore *
09-26 Sacramento, CA - Ace of Spades *
09-28 Santa Ana, CA - Observatory *
09-29 Los Angeles, CA - El Rey *
09-30 Solana Beach, CA - Belly Up *
10-02 Phoenix, AZ - Marquee *
10-05 Austin, TX - Mohawk *
10-07 Houston, TX - House of Blues *
10-08 New Orleans, LA - Tipitina's *
10-10 Ybor City, FL - The Ritz Ybor *
10-11 Orlando, FL - House of Blues *
10-12 Atlanta, GA - Terminal West *
10-13 Athens, GA - Georgia Theatre *
10-14 Wilmington, NC - Brooklyn Arts Center *
10-16 Washington, DC - The Howard Theatre *
10-17 Towson, MD - Recher Theatre *
10-18 New York, NY - Irving Plaza (CMJ) *
10-19 Boston, MA - Paradise Rock Club *
10-20 Philadelphia, PA - The Trocadero *
10-21 Buffalo, NY - The Town Ballroom *
* with GZA, Killer Mike
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