Parts & Labor - Stay Afraid - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Album Tracks 1. Case of the Look Arounds 2. Ode to Smokey Bees and Windy Trees 3. Swan Initiative 4. Chimney Sweep Vs. the King 5. Mr. And the Lady 6. Fog 7. Lonely, Samba Style 8. Near to Heaven By the Sea

Constant Future is the career-defining statement from Brooklyn-based noise-pop trio Parts & Labor. The album's 12 tracks deliver the bare essentials that made them sui generis totems of modern art-punk synthesized keyboard riffs distorted into oblivion, percussion pummeled hypnotically, crackling drones that haunt and soothe, fearless melodies hollered skyward. But fifth album Constant Future finds them crashing back to earth, focusing pointedly on what they do best unique, electronic landscapes melded with buzzing, anthemic hooks. Album Tracks 1. Fake Names 2. Outnumbered 3. Constant Future 4. A Thousand Roads 5. Rest 6. Pure Annihilation 7. Skin and Bones 8. Echo Chamber 9. Without a Seed 10. Bright White 11. Hurricane 12. Never Changer

Parts & Labor's lyrics, like their music, seek stability within the chaos. Lyrically, Receivers continues Parts & Labor's obsessions with technology gone sinister, post-industrial paranoia, and cultural divides. InchSatellitesInch envisions surveillance machines growing bored watching humans and then hurling themselves into the sun. InchNowheres NighInch and InchSolemn Show WorldInch meditate upon the seemingly endless homogeny of exurban American highways. However, the band's questions this time point more inwardly; these are less calls to arms than they are calls to self-improvement. For every pessimistic observation comes a positive declaration. Album Tracks 1. Satellites 2. Nowheres Nigh 3. Mount Misery 4. Little Ones 5. Ceasing Now 6. Wedding in a Wasteland 7. Prefix Free 8. Solemn Show World