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latest
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Wires
In The Walls
In Stores July 6, 2006
1 The Lotus Eater
2 Drunk Under Electrics
3 Swallow Fire
4 The Man Who Saved Your Ass
5 Scientist Girl
6 Bottom Of This Town
7 Street Sweepers
8 Atmostsphere Vs. The Dogs Of Dawn
9 Cities
10 Swallows Air
11 The Ministry Of Helicopters
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discography
Buried
Under Tundra
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web
band website http://www.thenorthatlantic.com
myspace profile http://www.myspace.com/thenorthatlantic
purevolume http://www.purevolume.com/thenorthatlantic
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multimedia
 MP3 Drunk Under Electrics stream
MP3 Scientist Girl (right-click/save as)
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the story
Henry David Thoreau remarked famously that most men live lives of
quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in
them. The North Atlantic are not most men, though they
are mostly men, and there is nothing quiet about their desperation.
Wild-eyed and hungry, the men have been holed up in their keep
on Golden Hill, crafting a sound and message that will make
the kids steal their uncles' cars and dance like robots.
The
North Atlantic was born on or about October 15, 1999, when
Cullen and Jason Hendrix met Jason Richards at Kalamazoo
College in Kalamazoo, MI. Intense house shows and being caught
out of their league (playing their second show with Lansing's
Small Brown Bike and their fifth with Cursive) marked their
formative years. After relocating to San Diego in 2000, earning
three degrees, eight national, self-booked tours and many,
many long drives, The North Atlantic is no longer being caught
out of its league--they are defining it.
The sound of The North Atlantic
is stark yet arrestingly lush, a staggering blend of New York
post-punk, Chicago noise rock and San Diego punk, all tied together
by Jason Hendrix's drunkenly literate character studies and a
penchant for textural embellishment and sonic layering.
Wires
in the Walls covers
a remarkable amount of territory in its 48 minutes. From the
raucous opening moments of the Lotus Eater to the layered guitar
stomp of Drunk Under Electrics, the album's first four songs
pass at a frenetic clip, only to run headlong into Scientist
Girl, a classic indie rock tell-off to a departed lover, and
Bottom of this Town, an intimate synth-driven lament.
The
second half of the album builds toward an epic final moment.
Street Sweepers briefly returns to maximum fury and intensity
followed by Atmosphere vs. the Dogs of Dawn, which delivers
the album's most plodding and textured moments before exploding
into a furious finish. Swallows Air is the sound of
The North Atlantic swilling gasoline at a dance party and leads
into Ministry of Helicopters, the band's definitive statement,
which mates a tale of millennial paranoia and quiet desperation
to a Paranoid Android-style sonic amalgam that spans the album's
entire creative arc.
Wires has followed a strange
trajectory to its audience. Originally
recorded in 2003, Wires was pressed by the band in
a limited run just three months before Jason Hendrix's departure
for the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. On the
eve of taking their definitive artistic statement to the masses,
the band went on indefinite hiatus. Brothers Cullen and
Jason were apart for the first time in over five years. Slowly,
one reunion show turned into a couple tours, which turned into
the belief that the most important thing to all three members
was finding out whether their reaction to the anxiety and powerlessness
bred of current political, economic and social circumstances
would find resonance.
Triumphing over distance, estrangement
and a healthy dose of better judgment, The North Atlantic faces
the future armed with whiskey-addled fervor, boundless energy
and an abiding desire to quash the pessimism and stagnancy
born of a million micro-genre obsessed musical taxonomists,
holier-than-thou scenesters and kids who think they've seen and
heard it all. The North Atlantic is rising...Iceland will
be swallowed.
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Biography
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Band 1 :: Band 2 :: Band 3 :: Jason :: Cullen :: JR
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Wires
In The Walls (2006)
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