INTRAMURAL
This Is A Landslide
- CD
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* Pre-orders will ship October 16th!
Bio:
To know Denver Dalley, is to love him.
The onetime
guitarist from Conor Oberst’s Desaparecidos,
and frontman of the hiatal Statistics, has been
spending the better part of the last decade touring
the globe and leaving a trail of close friendships
in his wake. Incredibly kind and lacking the
aloof pretension that most musicians flaunt,
Dalley has established an army of devoted friends
and followers everywhere he goes. INTRAMURAL is proof of this.
Over four years in the making, This Is A
Landslide,
is the work of Dalley and co-producer Sam Shacklock.
The two became friends in 1998, while Dalley
was finishing high school in Tennessee. A few
years later they began to collaborate on an electronic
music project. According to Dalley, things started
quickly, “We tracked my songs almost exclusively
in different home bedroom studio set-ups, and
I even recorded one of the songs (“Rocket”)
in a college dorm room. Wanting to further collaborate
and explore, I asked a few friends to sing on
some tracks.”
Sounds simple enough, and
from there, it just snowballed. Well-known singers
came and went over the years, and as the songs
evolved and improved under the close care of
Dalley and Shacklock, so did the finished project.
While it took a long time to actually take its
final form, This Is A Landslide adds
a much welcomed vocal variety and personal warmth
to the all-too-cold genre of electronic music.
From the downright epic choruses courtesy of
The Pink Spiders’ Matt
Fricton on “My My, Tennessee” to
the smoky cool of Twilight Singer’s Greg
Dulli soulful moan on the title track, the guest
vocalists of This Is A Landslide make
themselves at home on each and every track. The
genre confines are quickly blurred with the swirling
electronic foundation of Intramural, as each
vocalist customizes their individual song to
fit their singing style.
All that is missing from This Is A Landslide is a “Volume 1” tacked onto the end
of the album title. While it took four years
to complete this record, Dalley is already hard
at work on it’s sequel, with a completely
different sound and lineup of guest vocalists.
Much like Dalley himself, whose restless traveling
and touring was the impetus of this project,
INTRAMURAL is a music collaboration that refuses
to establish roots and remain still.
Track Listing:
1. My My, Tennessee
(with Matt Friction of Pink
Spiders)
2. Queens of Comparison
(with Judah Nagler of The Velvet Teen)
3.From
The Ground [mp3]
(with John Roderick of the Long Winters)
4. This is a Landslide
(with Greg Dulli of the Twilight Singers)
5. Grows Stronger
(with Leta Lucy)
6. Folded
(with Gabe Archer of the Pale Pacific)
7. Rocket
(with TJ Penzone of Men, Women and Children)
8. Spy
(with Tricia Kanne of Minipop)
9. Nights Are Long
(with Josh Dawson of Slender Means)
10. Inspired
11. Needle Point
(with Teresa Eggers of the Evening Episode)
