Fire Dream out October 29 via Father/Daughter Records
STREAM: “Unavoidable Things“
[media][/media]Los Angeles-based experimental pop group Body Parts will release their highly-anticipated debut album Fire Dream on October 29th via Father/Daughter Records. Album tracklist and cover art below. Pre-order the album here.
Last month the band shared the first taste of their upcoming LP with the song “Desperation.” Today the band shares the densely syncopated dance track “Unavoidable Things.” Listen to the track over at Interview Magazine.
Be sure to catch the band live when they play with fellow LA artist Jenny O @ Skirball Cultural Center on August 30. Event details here.
Bio:
Body Parts mobilizes a singularly elegant experimental pop idiom to explore the contours of modern devotion and doctrines of self-improvement alongside the immoderate reverberations of remembrance. Weaving together influences as varied as the rationalist prescriptions of the self-made seeker-healer- Scientology mastermind L. Ron Hubbard, the sensual guitar-scapes of Prince, and the haunting vocals and surrealist melodrama of Kate Bush, Ryder Bach and Alina Cutrono form the group’s core. Less life coaches and more exquisite shamans, Bach and Cutrono announce attentively written modern mantras in strikingly rich and complex vocal harmony. Bach’s lyrics pit the therapeutic logic of contemporary self-help narratives against the persistence of the more ancient and uncontrollable imperative of fate.
In addition to nimble guitar work and impeccable vocals, Bach and Cutrono bring years of experience in theater, dance, and performance to the front flank of Body Parts’ robust live show and captivating music videos. The vital rhythmic infrastructure and frankly infectious groove found both live and on the album comes thanks to the formidable duo of Raymond Proudfoot, bass and Taylor Dexter, drums. Newcomer Derek Coburn on keys and synthesizer completes their superlative live sound.
The late modern drama of their debut album, Fire Dream, out October 29th via Father/Daughter Records, has its genesis in an enduringly powerful nightmare in which Bach witnessed the murder of his parents at the hands of a close friend. Dealing less with the dream itself than with the inescapable influence of the fabricated memory over lived reality, the album moves the listener carefully through the terrain of the misremembered, forgotten, and unforeseen. Fire Dream delivers a delightful mix of brightly ominous and sensitively textured, biomechanical dance tracks and more earthly, emotive ballads. The sonic depth and diversity of Bach’s composition, arrangement, and production of this consummate suite of music emerges by virtue of Proudfoot’s engineering prowess and the expert mixing of Eric Palmquist. Trying to resist the tidal pull of Fire Dream’s peculiarly beautiful world would be like trying to beat fate.
Tour Dates:
08/30 Los Angeles, CA – Skirball Cultural Center *
09/20 Los Angeles, CA – Chinatown Summer Nights
09/25 Los Angeles, CA – Bootleg Theater #
* = w/ Jenny O
# = w/ Susanne Sundfor
Body Parts
Fire Dream
[Father/Daughter Records]
Street Date: October 29, 2013
Pre-order here
1. Desperation
2. Past is Coming
3. Be A God
4. Interlude a
5. Unavoidable Things
6. Helpless Child
7. People
8. Interlude b
9. You Inside My Head
10. Reprise, Prelude
11. Wash Over Me
BODY PARTS LINKS:
Official Site/Facebook/ Twitter/ Label