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American Aquarium - new album hits #14 on iTunes
Posted on 8/5/12 at 9:35 am
Posted on 8/5/12 at 9:35 am
Playing Baton Rouge October 2nd at the roux house.
Only show in Louisiana in 2012
ninebullets says it's "essential listening"
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stream the whole album here:
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Only show in Louisiana in 2012
ninebullets says it's "essential listening"
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That brings us to “Burn Flicker Die,” the title track of the new album from Raleigh NC’s American Aquarium. I tell you, it’s one of the best song’s I’ve ever heard. It’s written in the apex of that common language. The song and the album sound like something that would’ve played on my parent’s turntable growing up. Warren Zevon’s “Werewolves,” Tom Petty’s Into the Great Wide Open. BJ Barham and company achieve that feeling without the shorthand tactics that a more limited or nostalgia-dependent writer (Brian Fallon) would take to get there. What I mean is that when American Aquarium begin a verse with Every girl in that bar looked like 1965 / her sailor tattoos and her drawn-out eyes–which could easily be a Gaslight lyric (I mean, it’s so easy it is a Gaslight lyric), you don’t have to instinctively cringe and roll your eyes and wait two more verses for a redeeming line–you’re going to get your satisfaction immediately. Every now and then she still crosses my mind / by ‘every now and then,’ I mean ‘most of the time.’ They actually have a sense of humor about themselves, in a song about dying! The sense of humor of Warren Zevon singing his hair was p-erfect is the same that brings Barham’s narrator to contradict himself here. Then, like Kris Kristofferson, American Aquarium won’t leave any lyric unpunctuated. The punches come at the end. They work toward the punches, they land.
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Raleigh, NC - In the business of music, many are called and many may try, but few cross the threshold of being able to say they are truly committed for the long haul. With the upcoming release of their latest studio album, Burn.Flicker.Die. American Aquarium is proving that they have graduated to that class of professional musicians that have made an undeniable commitment to their music and their fans.
American Aquarium’s six years as a band have been a fast-moving blur of rubber on road, touring coast to coast through the states and Europe. Most nights of the year are spent far from their Raleigh homes, squinting out from bright stages at a growing legion of passionate fans who’ve followed them through the release of six albums that reflect a whirlwind of too many whiskey soaked nights, nameless women in smoky bars and fast living while your youth is in full bloom. But what happens when it all stops feeling good?
Burn.Flicker.Die. is what has emerged from that scenario for this group of hard working players. After two years of writing, they journeyed to the legendary recording hub which gave birth to some of the greatest blues, country and rock records of all time: Muscle Shoals/Sheffield, AL. Recorded in eight days under the precise hand of friend/tour buddy Jason Isbell, the record is an aptly named milestone for the band, and their most painstaking effort to date. As a long-time Southern rock artisan, Isbell provided a weathered know-how in producing the record American Aquarium is proudest of. Described as a “consequence record” by vocalist BJ Barham, the band spent that week pushing out everything that’s been haunting them: working for six years, watching buzz bands peak and die, and pining for their own payoff.
“I wish my addictions didn’t mean so much/but we all can’t be born with that kind of luck,” Barham sings on the title track, capturing the fast lifestyle with images of subtle barroom horrors: Finding a high in a dingy bathroom stall, a pretty barfly from somewhere down south you won’t see again, free shots you can’t say no to. “Casualties” is a soaring, chorus-less ode to death by rock that confronts age and the band’s great fear of having made the wrong choice. They’ve watched artists ride the hype train right off the track. But that can’t be American Aquarium – they’ve been laying low too long, finding their way to the most poignant album of their careers through hard touring and waking up to realize that it’s not Saturday night anymore.
Some of the record hurts to hear, like the quiet, fine-spun “Harmless Sparks.” It sounds like the flicker of a solitary cigarette burning to its filter in the blue-black glow of a bar. Keys plink like shot glasses in the background, and you’re the last to go home. American Aquarium has been there before. But the record also looks to the end of a hard road, where there might be validation for good music, and even love. In “Jacksonville,” Barham promises someone a call if he “makes it out alive.” Taking a cue from Ryan Adams, he draws romance out of shame in “Northern Lights.” And in “Saturday Nights” and “Saint Mary’s,” he makes a subtle mockery of the dives they know too well – slick with spilled whiskey and crawling with restless women who all look the same.
Every grizzled image of Burn.Flicker.Die is real, which comes from the band’s profound understanding of small southern town debauchery and six years of pushing their careers off the bottom rung. Like many of their musical heroes that have paved the way before them, American Aquarium can wrap the ugliest feelings in the most spirited soundscape. Sonically uplifting instrumentation and vivid, wrenching lyrics illuminate the dark side of hanging out in rock ‘n’ roll limbo, but also how the band has clawed their way out of it. Through their struggle to sustain their career and resist the temptation of fire, American Aquarium’s demons have hung around. But so have they.
This post was edited on 8/30/12 at 12:17 pm
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Posted on 8/5/12 at 9:46 am to TheDoc
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TIA
TIA
Posted on 8/5/12 at 10:36 am to TheDoc
When is it set to be released?
Posted on 8/5/12 at 10:49 am to TheDoc
Do you even have to ask?
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Posted on 8/5/12 at 11:16 am to CottonWasKing
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This post was edited on 8/5/12 at 10:53 pm
Posted on 8/5/12 at 11:50 am to TheDoc
Posted on 8/5/12 at 12:07 pm to CottonWasKing
I think it's really good... their best album in my eyes.
burn flicker die, casualties, cape fear river, st marys... this album has some really solid tracks.
This post was edited on 8/5/12 at 5:24 pm
Posted on 8/5/12 at 12:09 pm to TheDoc
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let me know what you think
I think it's really good... their best album in my eyes.
burn flicker die, casualties, cape fear river, st marys... this album has some really solid tracks.
Will do. I'll give it a good listen later today
Posted on 8/5/12 at 12:11 pm to CottonWasKing
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This post was edited on 8/5/12 at 10:54 pm
Posted on 8/5/12 at 12:12 pm to TheDoc
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several songs on this album ROCK
They've had a few songs before that did as well.
Nothing to lose comes to mind
Posted on 8/5/12 at 12:14 pm to CottonWasKing
no doubt, but you'll see what i'm talking about... theres some REALLY rocking parts on this record. casualties has a great build up
Posted on 8/5/12 at 12:15 pm to TheDoc
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no doubt, but you'll see what i'm talking about... theres some REALLY rocking parts on this record. casualties has a great build up
frick it.I'm listening to it now. Everything else can wait
Posted on 8/5/12 at 12:17 pm to CottonWasKing
"I shoulda been a doctor or a lawyer, or a policeman on patrol... instead i'm a casualty of rock and roll"
Posted on 8/5/12 at 12:19 pm to TheDoc
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"I shoulda been a doctor or a lawyer, or a policeman on patrol... instead i'm a casualty of rock and roll"
This song is amazing. An instant favorite
Posted on 8/5/12 at 12:22 pm to TheDoc
i'd love to hear it. I love those guys
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wesleyfrench@cox.net
Posted on 8/5/12 at 12:25 pm to TheDoc
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This post was edited on 8/8/12 at 8:15 pm
Posted on 8/5/12 at 12:35 pm to TheDoc
Whats up with the edit doc?
Posted on 8/5/12 at 12:41 pm to CottonWasKing
got an email to go ahead and take it down
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