Gary War Horribles Parade C38 Tape out now
With the 10s standing right on our doorstep, today we release our final item of 2009. Horribles Parade is the second album by Gary War (from Brooklyn, New York). The album has been released by Sacred Bones Records (SBR – 023) on both vinyl and cd earlier this year, but Knife Slits Water released the songs on a medium that we feel suits Gary War’s sound best: a cassette tape – right before the start of the bands first European tour.
Gary War’s music is on the one hand incredibly catchy, on the other very confusing. The listeners ears need to dig through layers of spacy tape manipulations and fuzzy sound effects, analogue synths and watery vocals (that sound like they have been recorded in ancient sewers beneath a city in a far away galaxy), in order to hear the catchy bass hooks, brilliant melodies and psychedelic pop song structures. As a review in Wire magazine read: Horribles Parade is “about as close as pop could possibly get to Noise without losing it’s pop-ness altogether [...] The more you listen, the weirder things get.”
More information can be found through this link, and you can order a copy here (4.50 + postage), be quick, there’s only 100 copies made. And while we’re at it, our first 3 release are now on sale when you order online!
Gary War will embark on their first European tour on January 4th 2010. They will play a show in Amsterdam on Thursday January 14th, so if you’re in town, don’t miss out on this show, it has an amazing line-up!
Ecstatic Sunshine and Jason Urick
Video credits: Jason John Würm
More info about their performances at SMART Project Space on January 22nd HERE