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SMEagol

Middle Earthed
Wammer Plus
Aug 13, 2008
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Very evocative of the strange journey this album takes you. I love this cover.

Sleeve Notes:

Big Night Music – songs to sing in your sleep. Shriekback celebrate the blessed dark the place where they were always most at home… Big Night Music is the shape and rhythm of two different kinds of nights: nights of heat and weirdness in which we alone are awake, humming with forbidden energy, nights into which we would not send our dogs wild sea and wet forest and eyes and teeth or those other nights fragrant with blossom, incandescent with moonlight and dreams, possessed by a cool beauty which evaporates with the dew.
It is, perhaps, worth mentioning that Big Night Music is entirely free of drum machines, sequencers, Fairlight Page R’s – digital heartbeats of every kind. Seductive though they are, Shriekback have opted to make a different kind of music – one which exalts human frailty and the harmonious mess of nature over the simplistic reductions of our crude computers.
We Shrieks are well pleased with our record, (this side of smugness and occasionally the other) and we obviously hope you will buy it voraciously. But we also want to leave you with an intimation that the universe, all its horrors notwithstanding, is strange and marvellous; that love is the law and the drug and the pull and the push of all we do; that the pursuit of beauty is useful, honourable and healing; and that our actions in this time, in choosing forgiveness over vendetta, brilliance over mediocrity, the clean difficult way over the dubious easy option, will determine whether or not we will realise the wealth of possibilities implicit in our existence.
As for Shriekback, we have a suspicion that it’s all going to be fine, just fine. With this in mind, here is Shriekback’s fifth album – Big Night Music – and it’s as good as we could make it. Now it’s all yours…

Partial Instruments list...

big rubbery vocals, pervo & distorto vox, vwizz JP8, nembo gong, attack-clavinet, jawbone treatment, unforeseen Kurzweil fast strings, tiny splash cymbal, army of hateful quicas, Insectocutor guitar, DX7 logdrum, JP8 organ surrogate, YOB VOX, Zen bass, low voice, "fairlight: sararr 1, newt 1", sampled 808 maraca and cobol explosions, bottleneck guitar, glossy guitar, enlightened backing vox, 51 eels, heroic cguitars, shlang guitar, beastly tunes, 23 bells, 66 eels, luminous guitars, event guitars, bell-tree, rogue whoopee cushion 570, skipping rimshots, milkbottle-in-f, big yellow kalimba, bland JP8 chord-organ, piano gank, sea-mart marimba, insect cymbals, good-looking guitar, glorious human singing voices, genuine vibes, snakelike cabasa, cobol distant explosion, star-trek vocals, saurian bassKurzweil mongas, intra-uterine bass drum, G-piano gank deployment, numinous bass-ganks, audacious JP8, Little Hammond Tunes, return of the great brush dance, Motown tambourine, guira, terrifying quica of hell (sampled), black-light-trap-ams-clapperboard, sexually-correct-picking guitar

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