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Nuclear Power Pants - Wicked Eats the Warrior LP
Wham City Records - WHAM007 (12" vinyl, edition of 500)
RELEASE DATE: September 26, 2009 7:41 PM (Ascendant in Aries 0° 0' 0")
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Cover art by Dina Kelberman:
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Back cover photo by Alan Resnick and Chester Gwazda:
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Photos by Frank Hamilton:
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TRACKS:
A:
Got Soul, Need Body (192 kbps mp3)
Uh Oh
Graveyard
Partytime U.S.A.
B:
Survivor
Screwdriver (192 kbps mp3)
Destroy Destroi
Teeth of a Lion
Download the full album here (192 kbps mp3): Wicked Eats the Warrior mp3s
WICKED EATS THE WARRIOR personnel:
Benjamin Beast, vocals, emanation body
Rob Dowler, drums and percussion
Donny Green, theremin on “Graveyard”
Daniel Meath, synthesizer, additional drums on "Teeth of a Lion"
R.M. O'Brien, vocals, beatific body
Devlin Rice, bass
Redfield Librarians, vocals
Ryan Syrell, noise and additional instruments
(The Redfield Librarians are Becca Chambers, Lizzy Hayes, & Melanie Hayes on all songs except "Graveyard" and "Screwdriver", for which the Redfield Librarians are Erin Gleeson, Melanie Hayes, & Heather McNally.)
Recorded by Chester Gwazda & Drew Swinburne. Mixed by Chester Gwazda
Mastered by Rob Girardi at Lord Baltimore
Recorded in April 2008 in Providence (at E-Z Axes) and Oakland (at the Ghost House), and in July & August 2009 in Baltimore (at Six Flags).
All songs by R.M. O'Brien & Nuclear Power Pants except "Graveyard" by R.M. O'Brien and Ben Furgal, and "Partytime U.S.A." by Justin Barnes, Drew Swinburne, and R.M. O'Brien.
All songs include meaningful creative contributions by the performers.
TOUR:
Nuclear Power Pants is touring the US and Canada in support of Wicked Eats the Warrior beginning in October 2009, opening for Dan Deacon:
10-01 Chapel Hill, NC - Cat's Cradle
10-02 Atlanta, GA - Eyedrum
10-03 Athens, GA - 40 Watt
10-04 Birmingham, AL - Bottletree
10-05 Nashville, TN - Exit/In
10-06 Memphis, TN - Hi Tone Café
10-07 New Orleans, LA - Big Top
10-09 Austin, TX - Emo's
10-10 Marfa, TX - The Shade Structure
10-14 Irvine, CA - University of California-Irvine
10-15 Los Angeles, CA - Echo
10-16 Los Angeles, CA - Eagle Rock Center for the Arts
10-19 Sacramento, CA - Fungarden
10-21 Eugene, OR - University of Oregon Cultural Forum
10-22 Portland, OR - Worksound
10-23 Portland, OR - Holocene
10-24 Seattle, WA - Vera Project
10-27 Denver, CO - Rhinoceropolis
10-29 Northfield, MN - Carleton College
10-30 Chicago, IL - Logan Square Auditorium
11-01 Gambier, OH - Kenyon College
11-03 Toronto, Ontario - Sneaky Dees
11-04 Toronto, Ontario - Great Hall
11-05 Montreal, Quebec - Il Motore
11-06 Montreal, Quebec - Eastern Bloc
11-07 Middlebury, VT - Middlebury College
11-08 Boston, MA - Mass Art
11-10 Northampton, MA - Iron Horse
11-13 Worcester, MA - Clark University
11-15 Ithaca, NY - Ithaca College
Baltimore Release Party info:
Saturday September 26, 2009 at Floristree. Doors at 7:41 p.m. (for astrological reasons). Music at 9.
with Blue Leader, Santa Dads, Witch Hat.
Premiere of video collaboration with Blue Leader. Other bands will cover older NPP songs during their sets. Nuclear Power Pants will perform with special guests.
Show will include many other novelty elements, including silkscreen-on-demand and glowing soda pop.
BIO:
Nuclear Power Pants is a DIY glam/noise/soul outfit that formed in 2003 at Purchase College in New York State. And it was there and then that they founded the record label/band collective Standard Oil Records, whose roster included Dan Deacon and Drew Swinburne. The band's first five songs were all written in the same day, and initially their live sets were so short that even when playing one song twice each performance, they typically played for under 15 minutes. Assuming that the band had no future to begin with, they made several stupid rules for themselves. Among these were the decision to have the band's two lead singers bound together in a giant sweaty suit speaking every word in unison, and the decision to play continuous guitar feedback on top of every song. Despite the fact that the songs could often barely be heard through the din and that the lyrics to their entire repertoire could fit in a fortune cookie, their audience steadily grew in and around NYC. In 2005, they went on one short, kind of successful, kind of shitty tour around the South/Midwest/Northeast with Dan Deacon before they called it quits later that year.
Nuclear Power Pants reformed in 2007 in Providence, RI with several original members and many new ones. The noise element got more expansive and slightly quieter. The new songs were less about hanging out/partying and more about ecstatic visionary experiences. In 2008, they began relocating to Baltimore, MD to be closer to loved ones and expanded their lineup to ten people, including three new vocalists and a second synthesizer player. In October of that year, they were invited to be a part of the massive Baltimore Round Robin tour.
WEtW Contains a mix of reworked older songs and brand new ones.
In October and November of 2009 they will be heading out on a tour of the U.S. and Canada in support of their new album Wicked Eats the Warrior, opening for Dan Deacon.
LINKS:
Nuclear Power Pants on myspace
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