Larsen & Furious Jane - “Zen Sucker” Out May 19th
Dear Madams and Sirs, we’re not going to pull a ‘Raconteurs’ on you. No tricks, just business as usual: We want a looong and strong *HYPE* building up around this release, so we’re giving you 2 months notice and what we hope will be plenty of opportunity to get acquainted with the new and wonderful album by LARSEN & FURIOUS JANE, entitled “Zen Sucker“. (Of course we’re aware of the fact that ‘no tricks’ then will be ‘just a new trick’ and everything is equally ridiculous…) Out on vinyl and as digital download on May 19th.
The album is self-produced and recorded in Tora Bora, a smoke-filled, moldy cave and an unlikely place to be a breeding ground for anything better than vicious infections. Nevertheless - and most likely due to their characteristic, indomitable lust for life and unfailing good spirits - L&FJ have succeeded in another really, really great album. Two didn’t make it, and the band is now a five-piece, but they say, that they’re all still great friends and will live happily ever after. Valuable contributions from label mates Nils Grøndahl (UnderByen) and Bastian Kallesøe (Shout Wellington Air Force) and former member of the band, Søren Andersen (One-Eyed Mule - congratulations on the deal with Artiscope!) make sure, not everything rests on the narrow shoulders of the remaining five. “Zen Sucker” was mixed and mastered by Morten Bue and Hrafnhildur Halldórsdóttir created the artwork.
I thought the previous albums were pretty good - and still do (especially selected guitar parts on “Tourist With A Typewriter“) - but on “Zen Sucker” LARSEN & FURIOUS JANE manage to reinvent their songwriting and sound and turn it all into a much darker and a much less comfortable place to be. And that’s a good thing. Obviously.
The tracklist is as follows:
Selling Yourself By The Ounce
A Deathbed Conversion
Fine
Dancing Bear
Widowers
A Car That Comes With The Job
Vietnamese Pool Boy
Pangea
The People Person Is A Zen Sucker
Snakes In The Grass
Biased & Corrupted
Local Nobility
Forbidden Fruit
Pretty soon we’ll be back with downloads, streams and much more of all that jazz we line up to try to wake your curiousity. In the meantime we can only recommend you (re)discover “Tourist With A Typewriter” (2005) and maybe even “I’m Glad He’s Dead” (2004?) and expect something a bit different from “Zen Sucker“.
Happy Easter holiday!
Bastian said,
Dette kommer til at gøre ondt. -Og godt. Og ondt.
Vi er nogle der har ventet på det her i lang tid! Endelig noget til at sætte vores hjerter i brand.
Søren A. said,
Tillykke drenge! Glæder mig til at høre det endelige
Slan said,
Den kommer ikke på cd?
Jesper Brodersen said,
Man skal aldrig sige aldrig, men ikke med det første, nej. Vi har ingen planer om at udgive albummet på CD. Men vi hører gerne folks mening om, hvorvidt det er godt eller skidt.
ma said,
Vi vil have en cd!
Torsten said,
Hep,
det bliver sÃ¥dan, at man nÃ¥r man køber vinylpladen, sÃ¥ fÃ¥r man en download-kupon med i købet og kan hente numrene ned pÃ¥ sin computer og brænde en cd. SÃ¥ har man bÃ¥de en cd og et cover i et noget federe format end cd’ens. Og ellers er der mulighed for at købe pladen online, hvis man som flere og flere udelukkende bruger sin ipod som platform for sin musik.
Vi i L&FJ er af den overbevisning, at cd’en er et døende (og overflødigt) format, og derfor har vi valgt at satse pÃ¥ det mere sejlivede lp-format denne gang. Men hvem ved? MÃ¥ske sælger alle deres digitale samlinger og vinyler om 10 Ã¥r, fordi det hele handler om cd’er? Det er muligt, at det sker, men jeg tvivler nu pÃ¥ det.
Med venlig hilsen
Torsten
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