02-15-2011, 12:44 PM
02-15-2011, 01:55 PM
FINALLY! This is a good music news week for me!
02-15-2011, 04:37 PM
Definitely good news, I actually heard this news awhile ago, but I did not remember until I got an SRB tweet today.
I strangely really love his past albums, and probably would never have given them the time of day if they did not open up for The Hip in the past.
I strangely really love his past albums, and probably would never have given them the time of day if they did not open up for The Hip in the past.
02-15-2011, 06:07 PM
Tthip Wrote:Definitely good news, I actually heard this news awhile ago, but I did not remember until I got an SRB tweet today.
I strangely really love his past albums, and probably would never have given them the time of day if they did not open up for The Hip in the past.
This is fantastic news. I love everything he's ever put out.
02-21-2011, 12:44 PM
Sam Roberts Band will be playing Sasquatch thihs year:
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4/30/2011 Sam Roberts Band and The Trews - Lac La Biche, AB - Bold Center
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4/30/2011 Sam Roberts Band and The Trews - Lac La Biche, AB - Bold Center
02-21-2011, 03:12 PM
This makes me happy. I wonder if a few UK dates might follow in time too...
02-22-2011, 08:18 PM
Sam Roberts Band is thrilled to announce the release of their new album, Collider. Set for a May 10th release on Zoë/Rounder Records, featuring tracks such as “The Last Crusade”, “Let It In”, “Sang Froid”, "Twist the Knife", "Longitude" and the first single "I Feel You". It will be the first album under the moniker "Sam Roberts Band" instead of "Sam Roberts".
Collider reinforces the spirit of the band’s classic pop song craft and infectious melodies that countless critics fell in love with. Joined by Califone percussionist Ben Massarella and Antibalas woodwind wizard Stuart Bogie, the band explores a world of rhythms, sounds and ideas that challenged their understanding of themselves and the music that they were making. Produced by Chicago-based producer Brian Deck (Modest Mouse / Iron and Wine,) Collider is the follow up to Roberts’ critically acclaimed album Love At The End Of The World.
The new energy is immediately apparent on the album’s opening track “The Last Crusade,” which begins as a simmering soul shuffle before gradually intensifying into a brass-blasted Afro-funk blowout. Bogie and Massarella’s role on this album amounts to more than just firing up the band’s funkiness on tracks like “Let It In” and adding a Sticky Fingers swing to “Sang Froid.” The process of opening up the songs to accommodate their guest contributions forced the band to refine and refocus their own playing.
Collider is noticeably bereft of the scorching guitar solos that define the band’s powerhouse live performances. Here the guitars are a textural tool to emphasize the rhythm - a tactic that ultimately shines a greater light on Roberts’ instantly familiar melodies and lyrical wisdom, yielding some of his most affecting performances to date – especially on the sad-eyed track “Twist the Knife” and the end-of-relationship requiem“Longitude,” a dreamy duet with Land of Talk’s Elizabeth Powell.
“There’s got to be some desperation to your writing,” Roberts says. “You’ve got to maintain that feeling of survival - that you can lose your grip at any time. That’s where songs like these come from - from the realization that you can never figure it out completely, that your grip can never hold on forever. It’s always there; every time I sit down to write. That’s why the record is called what it is: ideas collide, especially when you’re making music. When you take things that are seemingly different, you can smash them together and create something new.”
And that’s ultimately what Collider is about for Sam Roberts - musical exploration as a vehicle for emotional introspection. Despite what the album’s opening track might tell you, this is not the last crusade he’s on … but the point is that it should feel like it is.
Collider reinforces the spirit of the band’s classic pop song craft and infectious melodies that countless critics fell in love with. Joined by Califone percussionist Ben Massarella and Antibalas woodwind wizard Stuart Bogie, the band explores a world of rhythms, sounds and ideas that challenged their understanding of themselves and the music that they were making. Produced by Chicago-based producer Brian Deck (Modest Mouse / Iron and Wine,) Collider is the follow up to Roberts’ critically acclaimed album Love At The End Of The World.
The new energy is immediately apparent on the album’s opening track “The Last Crusade,” which begins as a simmering soul shuffle before gradually intensifying into a brass-blasted Afro-funk blowout. Bogie and Massarella’s role on this album amounts to more than just firing up the band’s funkiness on tracks like “Let It In” and adding a Sticky Fingers swing to “Sang Froid.” The process of opening up the songs to accommodate their guest contributions forced the band to refine and refocus their own playing.
Collider is noticeably bereft of the scorching guitar solos that define the band’s powerhouse live performances. Here the guitars are a textural tool to emphasize the rhythm - a tactic that ultimately shines a greater light on Roberts’ instantly familiar melodies and lyrical wisdom, yielding some of his most affecting performances to date – especially on the sad-eyed track “Twist the Knife” and the end-of-relationship requiem“Longitude,” a dreamy duet with Land of Talk’s Elizabeth Powell.
“There’s got to be some desperation to your writing,” Roberts says. “You’ve got to maintain that feeling of survival - that you can lose your grip at any time. That’s where songs like these come from - from the realization that you can never figure it out completely, that your grip can never hold on forever. It’s always there; every time I sit down to write. That’s why the record is called what it is: ideas collide, especially when you’re making music. When you take things that are seemingly different, you can smash them together and create something new.”
And that’s ultimately what Collider is about for Sam Roberts - musical exploration as a vehicle for emotional introspection. Despite what the album’s opening track might tell you, this is not the last crusade he’s on … but the point is that it should feel like it is.
02-23-2011, 12:09 PM
Anybody heard the first single yet/know where to find it/know when it hits radio?
02-25-2011, 02:46 PM
it's gonna be another great year!!!
03-01-2011, 04:25 PM
mojo_mattv Wrote:Anybody heard the first single yet/know where to find it/know when it hits radio?
It's on their myspace page now
03-01-2011, 05:09 PM
This is the coolest Sam Roberts single yet. The style reminds me of something The Dead Weather/The Raconteurs/non White-Stripes Jack White would put out, with Sam's classic vocal style. I'm excited for this to be released.
03-01-2011, 07:00 PM
not really liking it all that much, hopefully it will grow on me.
03-01-2011, 08:04 PM
emperor penguin Wrote:not really liking it all that much, hopefully it will grow on me.
03-02-2011, 07:11 AM
I kind of like it but I'm not really sure, it's just very different than previous SRB stuff.
03-02-2011, 04:47 PM
I really enjoyed it and can't wait to hear what the rest of the album brings.