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Since forming in 2008, Starring has honed the art of sublime textures that unite symphonic euphoria with machine-like repetitions and subversively sweet lullabies. Unhinged, introspective, but also weirdly unpredictable, the music arrives like a nutty and cosmic musical ice cream sundae. Now joining the roster of Brooklyn’s Northern Spy, Starring releases ABCDEFG-HIJKLMNOP-QRSTUV-WXYZ: a creative bouquet that integrates fastidious studio experimentation with elements of the band’s hot-blooded and earsplitting performances in the musty corners of Brooklyn’s DIY rock scene.
In 2011, these long-time friends holed up in Brooklyn’s St. Cecilia’s Church with producer Matt Mehlan (of Skeletons) to write and record this album, aiming at something sculptural and deliberate that sought to integrate the lyrical and the experimental. New ideas came fast and furious as all five members explored musical territory untouched by any of the band’s other creative outlets (Pterodactyl, Skeletons, Janka Nabay and the Bubu Gang, Talibam!, Frankie Rose, the Fancy, and lots of more experimental work), and infused the record with sublimated repressions and newly-tapped potentials.
Like its unwieldy, expansive title, ABCDEFG-HIJKLMNOP-QRSTUV-WXYZ is a sleepy-psycho explosion of trap doors and wild juxtapositions that combines razor sharp minimalism with dreamy poetry. It captures elements of the frenetic energy of the band’s live show, but here it is overlain with a new palate of synthesizers, delay effects, drum processing, aux percussion, and vocals that create delicate, but sometimes radical juxtapositions.
In 2011, these long-time friends holed up in Brooklyn’s St. Cecilia’s Church with producer Matt Mehlan (of Skeletons) to write and record this album, aiming at something sculptural and deliberate that sought to integrate the lyrical and the experimental. New ideas came fast and furious as all five members explored musical territory untouched by any of the band’s other creative outlets (Pterodactyl, Skeletons, Janka Nabay and the Bubu Gang, Talibam!, Frankie Rose, the Fancy, and lots of more experimental work), and infused the record with sublimated repressions and newly-tapped potentials.
Like its unwieldy, expansive title, ABCDEFG-HIJKLMNOP-QRSTUV-WXYZ is a sleepy-psycho explosion of trap doors and wild juxtapositions that combines razor sharp minimalism with dreamy poetry. It captures elements of the frenetic energy of the band’s live show, but here it is overlain with a new palate of synthesizers, delay effects, drum processing, aux percussion, and vocals that create delicate, but sometimes radical juxtapositions.
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johnny-mnemonic
great stuff :)
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waiting for this to EXPLODE.
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