My
Education Bad Vibrations
SAAH055
CD
Release Date: June 10, 2008
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Brian Purington - Guitar, Organ
Chris Hackstie - Guitar, Pedal Steel
James Alexander - Viola, Percussion
Kirk Laktas - Piano, Organs, Accordion
Christopher Stelly - Drums
Scott Telles - Bass with
Sarah Norris
- Vibraphone
Track
Listing: This Old House - Arch
- Britches Blanket - Mother May I - Aria - Sluts and Maniacs - Bad Vibrations
Described as "advanced ecstacy" by David Fricke in the pages of Rolling
Stone, Austin, Texas instrumentalists My Education create sweeping,
cinematic music evocative and of the high-lonesome expanse of the Texas
Hill Country landscape they call home. Formed in 1999 and comprised
of former members/contributors to Austin-area psych mainstays Stars
of the Lid, ST37 and Cinders, the band has since played over
300 shows all over the United States, alongside like-minded artists
Pelican, The Black Angels, Six Organs of Admittance, A Place to Bury
Strangers, Isis and many others. Three full-length albums, several
compilation appearances and multiple singles are to their credit, including
a must-have 12" vinyl collaboration with avant hip-hop act Dalek
released last year. Additionally, My Education have received
the remix treatment by Kinski, Pelican, Red Sparowes and the
aforementioned Dalek, and even have composed an original score
to the F.W. Murnau 1927 silent film Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans,
which premiered at the famed Alamo Drafthouse Cinema in March 2007.
In short, the band has gotten around. Behind this slow-burning momentum,
the band is slated to deliver their finest outing to date, the beautiful
and sublime fourth full-length Bad Vibrations.
Bad Vibrations showcases My Education's sonic flights
as sharply honed, highly melodic mini-epics. Layers of guitar swell
and sway over propulsive rhythms while viola spins yearning melodies
ever skyward, sprinkled with delicate color by vibraphone and keyboards.
Book-ended by ambient passages pillowing heavy-lidded acoustic strumming
languid strings and lap-steel, Bad Vibrations is certainly
the finest summation of My Education's highly textured and emotive
music yet.
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Recorded at Bubble Studios by engineer Chris "Frenchie" Smith, who has
worked with Built to Spill, Meat Puppets, ...And You Will Know Us by
the Trail of Dead etc
Mastered by Harris Newman at Greymarket Mastering
My
Education