New Fries: Is The Idea Of Us
New Fries: Is The Idea Of Us
Format: VINYL LP
Wanting to order from us over the holiday period but need some more information. We are here to help! Please see our Christmas Shipping page for more information.
On average, orders containing available-to-ship items are processed and dispatched within 1-2 business days, although this is not guaranteed.
Orders containing preorder items will ship as 1 fulfillment once all items in the order are available to ship.
Please note, Tower Records Merchandise and Exclusives are dispatched separately. On average, these items take 3-4 business days to dispatch, although this is not guaranteed.
The estimated shipping times that are displayed at checkout are from the point of dispatch.
See our shipping policy for more information.
We have a 30-day return policy, which means you have 30 days after receiving your item(s) to make a return.
For orders created between November 20th 2024 and December 31st 2024, we have extended our normal return period. For orders made between this period, customers have up to 60 days from the receipt of goods to return an item. Please see our Christmas Returns page for more information.
To be eligible for a return of an unwanted item, your item must be in the same condition that you received it and in its original packaging.
In the unfortunate situation that a product is damaged/faulty/incorrect, let us know and we will endeavor to correct any issue as soon as possible.
Please see our refund policy for more information.
Artist: New Fries
Label: Telephone Explosion
Product Type: VINYL LP
UPC: 844667044515
Genre: Rock
New Fries has never been interested in beinga band. What we mean is a spirit of abandoning ideas of what songs should be, how they should be performed, and by whom. We?ve never been interested in the tradition of songwriting?though we?re interested in musical elements like repetition, space, and dynamics. We have wanted our music to make people dance but have also wanted to produce the feeling of that being taken away from a room. We often work around these sorts of energy transfers (whether or not we name them this way). This space to make music in has felt wild and free. We have also contradicted ourselves. We are also always changing. In 2018 Ryan Carley (synthesizer) left the band and we found ourselves at our first juncture to restructure and re-evaluate New Fries. This is such a classic boring story, we know. But immediately we knew that as a three piece (the band?s original formation) we had to turn to something new and open?the way some describe ?beginners mind?. Anni grabbed bass (which was new to her), Tim grabbed guitar and a sampler as a new juggling routine, and Jenny reduced her drum kit to three pieces. We wanted to create a structure that allowed us to be curious about being in transition. Much of this record sounds and reflects on this in-between. It?s anxious in it's repetitions and unsure of genre. It rejects a singular character or emotion and attempts to instead act as a container for many. Anni?s lyrics state this directly: ?it lacks a mood, it lacks definition? / ?curiosity beyond expectation?. Her lyrics describe the spaces, objects, people, and situations that embody an in-between?her grandfather who worked as medium, the ecology of the foreshore, Mount Tambora?s eruption in 1816 that produced the Year Without a Summer, and mesh (the fabric). The result is a collage of 6 songs and many otherwise quick ideas. Much of this collage was testament to the work of engineer/musician Carl Didur. Carl (Zacht Automaat, formerly US Girls) is a long-standing pillar of Toronto?s experimental music community. He is also a tape expert, which we knew these songs needed entering the recording process as mostly bare grooves. The result was less that of hiring an engineer than it was working with a collaborator. His musical ideas are all over this record. ?Is the Idea of Us? is the situation of musicians/non-musicians making music together perhaps completely illegible in the music on this record and to the random listener who doesn?t know our story in South Bend, Indiana (how did you find us?!) But with this title we name this absurd gesture, through our changing relationship to making music both as a unit and as individuals. There are enough bands out there; we insist on do it differently.
Tracks:
1.1 Bangs
1.2 Genre
1.3 Lily
1.4 MT. Tambora
1.5 Genre
1.6 Genre
1.7 Ploce
1.8 Genre
1.9 Genre
1.10 L'express
1.11 Genre
1.12 Genre
1.13 Arendt Adler Pulley/Pulley/Pullry/Pulley/Pulley
