May Bees: Saint-Denis

May Bees SKU: 25158342
May Bees: Saint-Denis

May Bees: Saint-Denis

May Bees SKU: 25158342

Format: CD

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Description

Title: Saint-Denis
Artist: May Bees
Label: CD Baby
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 885767753778
Genre: Rock

Gregory Orange pays about as much attention to the expectations of the popular music world as a math professor might to an episode of 'American Idol.' As founder, songwriter, and conceptual generator for the Dutch candy-apple-thrash band The May Bees, Orange crafts a sonic concoction that knows no true antecedent. Like Kurt Cobain, Thurston Moore, and Black Francis before him, he is an unclassifiable stylist bent on refraction and reinvention. That originality bleeds from every pore of the band's new album, 'Saint-Denis.' Following on the heels of 2007's broadside 'Drop Little Boy,' 'Saint-Denis' documents an artistic zenith that doubles as a repository of tasty aural snacks. Recorded and produced by Todd Tobias (Guided by Voices, Robert Pollard, Circus Devils), 'Saint-Denis' updates the classic rock vocabulary, blending organically derived guitars and drums with modernist textures and Orange's otherworldly vocals. Like Orange, Tobias is a melodicist with an established penchant for rattling bones with sound. And for Orange and Tobias, rock music is about emotional impact. Orange describes the genesis of 'Saint-Denis' as an epiphany he had while walking down the Montreal rue that serves as the record's namesake (and on which he wrote the album's songs). "Imagine this busy street," he says, "with people walking, driving, shopping, drinking, talking, staring.... I watched it for hours and hours, and I saw a sort of existential beauty in it. We are all alone in the world, trying to make something of our lives. And it's tragic when we struggle and fail. It struck me that writing songs was a method to cope with that, a method to make this tragedy beautiful in a way." Built on the sturdy foundation of singer-guitarist Orange, longtime drummer Marzj, bassist Patrick Vetkamp, and guitarist Marcus, The May Bees are planning to tour The Netherlands soon with an eye on potential follow-up dates throughout Europe as well as in Canada and The United States. Armed with the conviction that 'Saint-Denis' holds their most realized and affecting work to date, they are encountering a global indie-music audience eager to be moved by something more passionate and profound than irony - an audience looking, maybe, for a little jagged beauty.

Tracks:
1.1 Mi Corazon
1.2 King or the Enemy
1.3 Chemical and Moisturized
1.4 Valley of Arts and Science
1.5 Decide
1.6 Soft Paper Plane
1.7 Rue
1.8 For Promotional Use
1.9 Played Attraction Played Appeal
1.10 Well
1.11 Serve It with Pickles
1.12 Shooting at the Stars
1.13 Maybe Europe
1.14 Iron Cat
1.15 Settlers
1.16 Saint-Denis
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