Skip to main content

Ice Palace :: Wonder Subtly Crushing

By

Currently on Tour with Cloud Cult as well as Margot and the Nuclear So-and-Sos


Sounds Like: Pure, down home indie rock.


RIYL: Wolf Parade, The Decemberists, Built to Spill


A Few Words (courtesy of Jessi Hector from Sneak Attack Media): Ice Palace's haunting sophomore album, Wonder Subtly Crushing Us will be available April 21st through Earthology Records. Ice Palace is the first band to join Cloud Cult on eco-friendly Earthology Records roster. The Minneapolis, MN five-piece released Bright Leaf Left in 2007.


The melancholic Wonder Subtly Crushing Us is the culmination of roughly 20 years of writing, steming from the band's overly creative lead singer and songwriter, Adam Sorensen. After assembling some of the best talent in Minneapolis, in some of the most unexpected recording spaces (from Minneapolis’ Sound Gallery studio to a bedroom closet), the album was handed to Craig Minowa of Cloud Cult for final mixing and production at his Earthology Records studio. With the band already drawing comparisons to such heavyhitters as The Decemberists and American Analogue Set, Wonder Subtly Crushing Us combines the nuanced lyricism of Sorensen, the innovative musicianship of the eclectic ensemble of players and the creative conception of Minowa -- resulting in an album worthy of attention.


Download a free copy of the MP3 "Thoughts/Facts".

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

The Racoon Wedding :: Gather Gather Bones/Rattle Rattle Truth

By
Download The Paper Boy from The Racoon Wedding's album, Gather Gather Bones/Rattle Rattle Truth Sounds Like : they're gonna rip your ribcage out and find your heart RIYL : White Rabbits, Portugal. The Man, Fanfarlo, Rolling Stones ala Beggar's Banquet From the Press Release : Forming from the ashes of Vermicious Knid, and authoring songs in the basement of the all ages not-for-profit art space they own in a nook of the city’s forgotten downtown, frontman Tim Ford and company boast a sense of loyalty to their community that few other bands share. On their debut LP, Gather Gather Bones/Rattle Rattle Truth , issued this October via their own Ford Plant Recordings Co., the band enlisted the help of engineer Leon Taheny (of the Final Fantasy recording credit) and hammered out a record that teems with the spirit of long-forgotten roots music. It’s indebted to the history of mighty back porch music: unbridled, unedited, beautifully intense.
Post a Comment
Read more

Odd Stories in the World of Music

By
As it's Friday, we like to round up a few of the stranger music-related stories and share them with our beloved readers. First, there was the TechDirt article about bands (or the labels who represent the bands) who pull their songs from iTunes after said songs have become popular. Apparently, they think it will force people to buy more CDs, which is kind of like selling tires, then shutting all the stores and telling people they have to buy cars to get the tires they want. TechDirt reacts with the appropriate "WTF". Moving on, we find a lovely post about the "peculiar pocket trumpet" from Trumpet Instruments. Finally, there's this: a homemade hurdy gurdy built from circut hacked Furbies, appropriately named the "furby gurdy."
2 comments
Read more

CONTEST! Win Tickets to See Whitey at The Railway Club in Vancovuer

By
Whitey puts the "F-U" back in Funk. Download the track "West of Hope" to hear what I mean. What : Two free tickets to see indie post-funk sensation, Whitey, at The Railway Club in downtown Vancouver. When : Friday! Friday! Friday! (6 November) How the funk do I get them? Leave a comment. That's all. RIYL : Vampire Weekend, Ozomatli, Cat Empire A Few Words : We don't do ticket give-aways very often here at Duck & Cover. In fact, we don't do them at all. Which is why this is such a special event. Well, it's a special event so long as you live in or around Vancouver, BC. So here's what happened: these two tickets to Whitey just fell off the back of a truck. No, really. They were just sitting there. So I'm turning my good fortune into an opportunity for you, my loyal reader(s). All you have to do to win the tickets to see Whitey at The Railway Club this Friday is to leave a comment . . . that's it! That's all! I'll put all the ...
1 comment
Read more