Spice - Spice - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

The second LP by California rock n roll unit Spice expands their palette of damaged anthems and addiction poetics with a more bristling, visceral sound, distilled from years in the trenches of bands, break-ups, and breakdowns. Singer Ross Farrar explains their chemistry succinctly InchWe all got in a room and this is what came out.Inch Viv is named for a precursor project of bassist Cody Sullivan and violinist Victoria Skudlarek, but also alludes to broader notions of vividness, sonic, visual, and otherwise. Engineered by Jack Shirley and mixed/mastered by Sam Pura in Oakland, the mix achieves that rare balance of every element being elevated but distinct, with voices, strings, and drums each given space to blaze parallel paths. Opener InchRecoveryInch captures Spice at their stormy, weathered best, booming drums and East Bay riffs skidding out in a rockslide of rapture, regret, and bruised melody (InchYou sacrifice perfect days to laugh through the night / you have to get out of bed / and it's hard / and it's hard / it's so hard to admitInch), peaking in Ian Simpson's poignant single-note vibrato guitar solo; Farrar agrees InchThe guitar says what we cannot.Inch Other tracks embrace the group's shredded pop potential (InchAny Day Now,Inch InchDining Out,Inch InchLive SceneInch) and their speedway ripper mode (InchThrenodyInch), with detours into oblique instrumentals (InchMelody DriveInch) and orchestral balladeering (InchAshes In The BirdbathInch). But what unites and ignites these songs across different energies and arrangements is their specific sense of emotion. Rawness refined into reckonings, approaching truth, born of cold mornings, bad luck, and too many wrong turns. Waking up where you're not supposed to be, living a life you don't recognize. The album ends with no end to it's narrative, still fighting, still slipping. Farrar calls InchClimbing Down The La

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Punk Slime Recordings are proud to present Glade, the debut album from Umeå, Sweden garage rock act Spice Boys. Formed in late 2015 the band, made up of Adam Forsberg, Jesper Lindkivst, Emil Uppenberg and Sebastian Holmlund, first came together after Holmlund came up with the name and decided it was too good to not. The band quickly set to work on music and within a month they'd finished and recorded their debut EP Spice City, during a one night drunken session, which brought them the attention of the Stockholm based tag PNKSLM Recordings. The Spice City EP was released in the spring of 2016 to praise from the likes of The FADER, KEXP, Maximum Rocknroll and Upset Magazine, fuelled by broken hearts, unemployment and a love of garage rock it's an impressive debut that doesn't sound like anything the band could have imagined beforehand. The debut album Glade was originally recorded over a weekend in July 2016, working with regular collaborator Simon Skeleton (who also mixed ShitKid's debut album Fish) in Umeå and over two days the band recorded 16 tracks, 13 of which made their way onto the finished album. The end result is simply brilliant - 13 tracks of brilliant garage punk with Forsberg and Holmlund interchanging the lead vocals and songwriting duties throughout the album, chronicling the state of cynicism and resignation around the state of urban life, disillusion and the frustration of something missing in our times.Glade will be released on January 12, 2018 on vinyl, CD and digital. Produced by Simon Skeleton and co-produced by the band's Adam Forsberg and Sebastian Holmlund, mastered by Christopher Göthberg.