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The Morning Benders Release Big Echo 28/06/10 in The Morning Benders
The morning benders’ new album, Big Echo, opens with the warm crackle and pop of a needle hitting vinyl, before the swooning orchestration sweeps in and carries you away to a time when life was more carefree and natural. A lush, big-hearted collection of songs rooted in the greatest traditions of American songwriting, Big Echo incorporates symphonic pop, a Wall of Sound production aesthetic, and sunny harmonies as told from the point of view of 4 kids in their early 20’s from Berkeley, California.
“The title Big Echo sums up what we’re doing sonically and textually,” singer, lyricist, song-writer, Christopher Chu, reveals. “The idea was to take sounds from all different eras and all different kinds of music, throw them together, and see how they sound bouncing off each other. Throw it all into an echo chamber. Thematically, there’s a lot of pondering about time, the span of your life and how your perspective fits into everyone else’s. It’s explores the idea of your memories as echoes that are always inside you, creating these frequencies that become your soul.”
Recorded in several smaller sessions spread out over 11 days Big Echo was self produced by Chu with the mixing being handled by both Chu and Grizzly Bear’s Chris Taylor (Dirty Projectors, Department of Eagles).
Tracklisting:
1. Excuses
2. Promises
3. Wet Cement
4. Cold War
5. Pleasure Sighs
6. Hand Me Downs
7. Mason Jar
8. All Day Day Light
9. Stitches
10. Sleeping In
Buy:
Rough Trade Shop
iTunes
Amazon
Listen:
Watch:
Watch the Morning Benders perform Stitches for Yours Truly:
Yourstru.ly Presents: The Morning Benders “Stitches” from Yours Truly on Vimeo.
Watch the Morning Benders perform Excuses on Carson Daly:
Live:
the Morning Benders play the following UK shows:
28th of June – Night & Day, Manchester
29th of June – King Tuts, Glasgow
30th of June – Rough Trade East In-Store, London. Free entry with a purchase of the album
1st of July – Barfly, London (Sold Out)
For more dates in Europe please see www.roughtraderecords.com