Havilah - Drones, The
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ITEM DETAILS
- Artist:
- Drones, The
- Title:
- Havilah
- Format:
- CD Regular
- Barcode No.:
- 9324690031535
- Available:
- 22-09-2008
- Sourced:
- Australia
The new world of The Drones is an exotic place, one populated by dark corners, rarely explored avenues, sparse canvases and dense, exhilarating peaks. In February, front man Gareth Liddiard began writing new songs for the album, in a mud brick cottage in deep within the splendid isolation of Mt Buffalo, in country Victoria. Two months later guitarist Dan Luscombe, The Drones' most recent addition, and drummer Michael Noga joined Liddiard and Kitschin to rehearse the new material. Producer and engineer Burke Reid (The Mess Hall, Gerling) lugged his recording gear through the door and off they went two weeks flat out until it was done.
Havilah is The Drones highly anticipated 4th studio LP.
Havilah, like everything The Drones have done, is an album of contradictions, where bombast meets beauty, melancholy wrestles with violent guitars and singer Liddiard's incendiary voice lights up his angular poetry, this time on the nature of, in no particular order, the moon (Penumbra), divorce (The Drifting Housewife) and the acquisition of godlike power and the cult of John Frum (I Am the Supercargo). It's an album that's brimful of the innovation and artistic integrity that has made The Drones one of Australian rock's most critically acclaimed acts here and overseas during the past four years. There are vaguely familiar nods to Neil Young's paint-stripping guitar spasms on Supercargo and Oh My, while the deliciously meandering pop dirges of Suicide and the Velvet Underground echo in Careful As You Go and Luck in Odd Numbers. The outstanding ballad here, Cold and Sober, is a song The Drones have recorded several times during their eight-year reign without it ever making the grade. There's also the relative immediacy but still complex structure of the first single The Minotaur, Liddiard's scathing rant on the wasters of the world, while the lengthy opening Nail It Down perhaps best reflects The Drones' grand scope, flitting as it does between acoustic ambience and rumbling rock 'n' roll meltdown.
Track Listing
Disc 1:
- Nail It Down
- The Minotaur
- The Drifting Housewife
- I Am The Supercargo
- Careful As You Go
- Oh My
- Cold And Sober
- Luck In Odd Numbers
- Penumbra
- Your Acting's Like The End Of The World
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On first single and title track: 'Funny track, wholly written with bass and drums not unlike a lot of the Dark Satanic Mills EP. Quite distinct from the rest of the album structurally. Thematically a return to the Eden subject previously explored in the Sunset Studies track 'There Is No Such Place'. - Glenn Richards
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Available ONLINE ONLY. Coffin Box contains: CD with demos of the 10 songs from the album, DVD of unseen “Making Of” footage from the recording sessions, exclusive Death Magnetic T-Shirt (large), Death Magnetic flag, Death Magnetic pick card, fold-out coffin-shaped card with band members photos and the Death Magnetic Album in a dye cut digi pack. All these items are presented in a beautiful white coffin box.
Everyone's got their demons and such, keeping them down in their pit can be too much over a flurry of hits in the gut. Here's hopin'. Singin' "Back it on up and start again". I get the sense I may be singin' that for a long while.
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