PRESS RELEASE
180 Gram LP / Hi Res MP3 Out August 16, 2011
Faceless Angels is The Living Kills' full length follow up to their debut EP You'll Miss Me Most. Of Faceless Angels, songwriter and lead vocalist Merrill Sherman says, “These are songs about my fears as a child and how I've come to embrace them... We limited ourselves to 60s and 70s equipment to create something distinctly modern, like aliens using primitive technology to return to their time--except when we cheated."
Click HERE to Watch the Video for “Angels With No Faces”
(Feel free to post and share!)
Faceless Angels is The Living Kills' full length follow up to their debut EP You'll Miss Me Most. Of Faceless Angels, songwriter and lead vocalist Merrill Sherman says, “These are songs about my fears as a child and how I've come to embrace them... We limited ourselves to 60s and 70s equipment to create something distinctly modern, like aliens using primitive technology to return to their time--except when we cheated."
Click HERE to Watch the Video for “Angels With No Faces”
(Feel free to post and share!)
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BIO
THE LIVING KILLS
Faceless Angels
Release date: August 16, 2011
For 10 years, Merrill Sherman recorded his songs alone on a four-track in an Alabama shack and later a Chicago basement. It wasn’t until he moved to New York City that he met the members who would become The Living Kills: organ/moog/vocalist Jennifer Bassett, bass player/vocalist Brenden Beu (previously of The Fearsome Sparrow), and drummer Yancy Sabenicio.
The band's first 7-inch, "You’ll Miss Me Most", is a product of Merrill’s early recordings. The original starkness of one guitar and a voice drowned in reverb became the wintry, psychedelic landscape of "You’ll Miss Me Most". The formerly finger-picked murder ballad “Wires of Copper” was cast anew with female vocals and electronic accents.
Over the last year, the band has continued to evolve their sound, inspired as much by forgotten 60’s rock and hammer horror films as the sensibilities and textures of post-rock. On their debut album Faceless Angels - produced and engineered by Brenden (Male Bonding, O'Death, Pissed Jeans) and mixed by Alex Newport (Death Cab for Cutie, Mars Volta, At the Drive-In) - fuzz and reverb-driven, 12-string arpeggios and Animals-influenced organ solos are held together by driving bass and drums, underlaying carefully crafted songs that would stand on their own in any arrangement. The final product is a cohesive album that evokes everything from the lysergic mind-meld of the Thirteenth Floor Elevators and The Calico Wall to the brooding power of The Black Angels and the wistfulness of early REM.
Recently, the band has combined their divergent interests in the arts to create live multimedia events with like-minded musicians, artists, writers, and filmmakers. The collective – under the moniker Deadpan (collective) – has collaborated with book publishers, writers, DJs, video installation artists, literary journals, local restaurants and record labels to create their first event: The Living Kills album pre-release on May 13, 2011. Numerous additional events organized by the collective are to come, including a July 9 fundraiser for the Greenpoint Reformed Church's Soup Kitchen.
Faceless Angels
Release date: August 16, 2011
For 10 years, Merrill Sherman recorded his songs alone on a four-track in an Alabama shack and later a Chicago basement. It wasn’t until he moved to New York City that he met the members who would become The Living Kills: organ/moog/vocalist Jennifer Bassett, bass player/vocalist Brenden Beu (previously of The Fearsome Sparrow), and drummer Yancy Sabenicio.
The band's first 7-inch, "You’ll Miss Me Most", is a product of Merrill’s early recordings. The original starkness of one guitar and a voice drowned in reverb became the wintry, psychedelic landscape of "You’ll Miss Me Most". The formerly finger-picked murder ballad “Wires of Copper” was cast anew with female vocals and electronic accents.
Over the last year, the band has continued to evolve their sound, inspired as much by forgotten 60’s rock and hammer horror films as the sensibilities and textures of post-rock. On their debut album Faceless Angels - produced and engineered by Brenden (Male Bonding, O'Death, Pissed Jeans) and mixed by Alex Newport (Death Cab for Cutie, Mars Volta, At the Drive-In) - fuzz and reverb-driven, 12-string arpeggios and Animals-influenced organ solos are held together by driving bass and drums, underlaying carefully crafted songs that would stand on their own in any arrangement. The final product is a cohesive album that evokes everything from the lysergic mind-meld of the Thirteenth Floor Elevators and The Calico Wall to the brooding power of The Black Angels and the wistfulness of early REM.
Recently, the band has combined their divergent interests in the arts to create live multimedia events with like-minded musicians, artists, writers, and filmmakers. The collective – under the moniker Deadpan (collective) – has collaborated with book publishers, writers, DJs, video installation artists, literary journals, local restaurants and record labels to create their first event: The Living Kills album pre-release on May 13, 2011. Numerous additional events organized by the collective are to come, including a July 9 fundraiser for the Greenpoint Reformed Church's Soup Kitchen.
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CURRENT RELEASE
THE LIVING KILLS Faceless Angels
180 Gram LP / Hi Res MP3 Release date: August 16, 2011
REVIEWS
"Illuminated on stage by projections of vintage Muppets and cult films, The Living Kills play echo-y, strong and plowing psychedelic rock'n'roll...They could be described as a version of The Velvet Underground with a little extra weight in the form of a bolder guitar and a more prominent organ - often replaced by droney strings on record."—The Deli (New York)
"Like dutiful musical offspring of the Velvet Underground, the Living Kills play the kind of dark, psychedelic rock that sounds like it should've drifted out of the windows of the Factory in its '60s heyday. 'Wires of Copper,' which comes from the Brooklyn quartet's EP 'You'll Miss Me Most,' brims with trippy nostalgia."
—WNYC Culture
"[T]wo distinctly now-New York moody popsike songs. 'You'll Miss Me Most' is the more succinct and upbeat of the two, but still finds time for a swirling organ driven and reverbed guitar trip down the rabbit hole. 'Wires of Copper' employs a slowed-down 'All Tomorrows Parties'; a plucked guitar drones over a prominent singular bass beat before the organ fills the space around the folks double-tracked female vocals. This one has a longer tail of stacked synths and strings. All in all, a pleasant blend of old and new sounds."
—Dusted Magazine
"A four-piece band from Brooklyn playing spaced out 60's/70's psych rock that reminds me of some Yo La Tengo playing Velvet Underground. Good stuff."
—Rocksellout.com
TOUR DATES
AUDIO
Faceless Angels by The Living KillsVIDEO
DOWNLOADS
LINKS
The Living Kills Official SiteDeadpan Collective
CONTACTS
Che Arthur (Label Manager): homebase@pastfuturesrecords.comBrian Lindley (Project Manager): brian@pastfuturesrecords.com
