Art of the Cover - Interpol's "El Pintor" (2014)

Clap your hands for the great cover art to the long-awaited new opus from  the brilliant Interpol.

Yap, Interpol release their first album in four years, 'El Pintor,' on September 9th via Matador.

The LP is available for pre-order NOW!! .. click the fucking link NOW!!!

Recorded at Electric Lady Studios and Atomic Sound in New York City, the ten tracks on El Pintor are taut and epic in equal measure.

The collection finds the band completely reinvigorated after a nigh three year break from touring.

All songs on El Pintor were written and produced by Interpol, with Daniel Kessler playing guitar and piano, Samuel Fogarino on drums, and Paul Banks on vocals, guitars, and taking over bass duties for the first time.

El Pintor also features an array of guests ..... guys like Brandon Curtis (The Secret Machines) who plays keyboards on nine songs, Roger Joseph Manning, Jr. (Beck)  who plays keyboards on “Tidal Wave,” and Rob Moose (Bon Iver) who plays violin and viola on "Twice as Hard.” ‘

El Pintor was mixed by the legendary Alan Moulder, and mastered by Greg Calbi.

Interpol premiered songs from ‘El Pintor’ in March while headlining the NME Awards tour in the UK.

   

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Art of the Cover - Peter Gabriel's "And I’ll Scratch Yours" (2013)

Ewwww - is that a microscopic shot of Gabriel's dome?  ... Best go see a specialist, mate!

That's more than enough frivolity. Let's get fucking serious .... it's that bloke out of Genesis for fuck sake!

Yap, Saint Peter is back and this week finally releases the long-planned companion to his 2010 covers album Scratch My Back; a new 12-track compilation called - appropriately enough - And I’ll Scratch Yours.

The LP actually is also packaged in a very reasonably-priced double CD which also includes Scratch My Back.

Not really a Gabriel album, rather it's (most of) the artists he covered on that original album returning the favour by covering his songs. 

The astonishing 'high concept' approach was summarised by Saint Peter:

"Rather than make a traditional covers record, I thought it would be much more fun to create a new type of project in which artists communicated with each other and swapped a song for a song, i.e. you do one of mine and I'll do one of yours, hence the title - Scratch My Back - And I'll Scratch Yours."

So scratching Pete's back (not a nice image!) here is an eclectic array of acclaimed indie favorites and some very established acclaimed artists ... and, erm, Regina Spektor!

Among the most anticipated has been one-trick-pony Arcade Fire’s take on Gabriel’s 1980 single “Games Without Frontiers,” which hit the web over the weekend.

Peter Gabriel's Scratch My Back album project is the first part of a series of song exchanges in which Gabriel and other leading artists reinterpret each other's songs. 

To help craft his recording of the album's eclectic array of cult favorites and classic tracks, Gabriel enlisted former Durutti Column member John Metcalfe, composer, arranger and the expertise of producer Bob Ezrin (Pink Floyd's The Wall, Lou Reed's Berlin) and engineer, mixer and producer Tchad Blake (Suzanne Vega, Sheryl Crow, Tom Waits). 

Gabriel describes this as a very personal record with twelve songs performed only with orchestral instruments and voice. He made the choice not to include guitar or drums. The album s richly diverse sounds include the sparse romance of Lou Reed's The Power of the Heart , the powerful musical journey of David Bowie s Heroes and an epic arrangement of Arcade Fire s My Body Is A Cage. Gabriel and his collaborators recorded the album at George Martin s Air Lyndhurst Studios and the Real World Temple with further editing and mixing at his own Real Worlds Studio in Wiltshire.  

The Scratch My Back release is one of the most creative and engaging records from an iconic artist in a long time. The marketing focus is to penetrate Peter Gabriel s core fan base as well as fans of all genres and in all demographics given the scope of artists being covered as well as its depth of composition.

Tracklisting 

1. I Don't Remember (David Byrne)
2. Come Talk To Me (Bon Iver)
3. Blood Of Eden (Regina Spektor)
4. Not One Of Us (Stephin Merritt)
5. Shock The Monkey (Joseph Arthur)
6. Big Time (Randy Newman)
7. Games Without Frontiers (Arcade Fire)
8. Mercy Street (Elbow)
9. Mother Of Violence (Feist ft. Timer Timbre)
10. Solsbury Hill (Lou Reed)
11. Biko (Paul Simon)

  

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The Video Crock - Poliça's "Tiff"

This piece of dark evocative electronic popdom made waves a while back; the evocative, off-kilter single, “Tiff” where Minneapolis’ own Poliça (quite unnecessarily) brought in their biggest fan in the world ever, Justin Vernon from something called Bon Iver to add backing vocals.

Now there's a vid to go with this thing that seems to have cut out most of Vernon's contribution.

No Vernon is good - but this silly sick shit is a way over the fucking top nasty piece of  work that adds nothing whatsoever to the song .....  indeed only greatly takes away.

Calling to mind the evil of MK ULTRA Mind Control techniques used a certain nefarious entity to create controllable alter-egos in victims, this thing features shorned singer Channy Leaneagh as two alter-egos .... simulataneously both a sadistic torturer and a traumatised torture victim.

The thing very graphically depicts the helpless, heavily-restrained victim going through an array of grotesque procedures.

Like some sick trip to Guantanamo Bay, waterboarding, finger smashing, facial beating and other shit are portrayed in needless graphic detail.

So check it out if you're an evil, sadistic mofo ... like Bill Clinton or Dick Cheney!

Poliça will release their new LP Shulamith  - the follow-up to 2012′s Give You The Ghost - later this year ..... accompanied by a fucking snuff movie, no doubt!

   

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Staring at the Sink of Blood and Crushed Veneer

Come on skinny love just last the year.

Pour a little salt we were never here.

My, my, my, my, my, my, my, my!

Staring at the sink of blood and crushed veneer

I tell my love to wreck it all

cut out all the ropes and let me fall.

My, my, my, my, my, my, my, my!

Right in the moment this order's tall.

And I told you to be patient.

And I told you to be fine.

And I told you to be balanced.

And I told you to be kind.

And in the morning I'll be with you.

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