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New High & Ord LOAD 104 LP/CD
LP out 4/25 through Load mailorderLos Angeles based Silver Daggers are a streamlined bullet to the brain from a unusually shaped pistol. Using wiry templates of songs perfected by anarcho masters such as the DOG FACED HERMANANS, and adding saxaphone fury and gutteral guitar scrape - a new rock language emerges. With a new creep vibe running through the deserted subway tunnels of Los Angeles and emptying into ground zero center stages like the SMELL and IL CORAL. SILVER DAGGERS generate new sparks and suck you, the listener, into the tiny foam headphones. Past singles on labels like Not Not Fun have sketched out a song based vision of agit pop of remarkable power. For a young band they have acquired a deadly precision. Indeed as a five piece band they operate as a single muscle. Its very apparent they have opened the crypt and found the secret that culture vultures will stare at like apes figuring out black rocks in the middle of large cultural deserts. Future sound just in time for a culture caught in caustic feedback loops. Gary Panter did the artwork, and as evidenced by recent artwork he has done for YO LA TENGO, and much older work from Los Angeles freak punks the SCREAMERS, he has given eye candy a retainal blast of insulin shock. Recording on this record was done at the Distillery where classics by the BLACK LIPS and LIGHTNING BOLT have been laid down. The result for the SILVER DAGGERS is a stunning work of hi-fi song fuckery that infects the brain like simian fever hoping from cage to cage. When all the buildings fall, and civilization is pushing shopping carts full of junked technology, the only thing of value on this lonely ball of dirt will be this record. Heed my words. TRACK LISTING: 1. enter the king 2. new high & ord 3. untame 4. we didn't pay 5. the five food groups 6. displacement 7. faithful unlawful 8. governkkk 9. ghosted 10. burn the world 11. joy 12. movement 13. real neat flag 14. run to fear BIOGRAPHY Shortly after bombs began falling over Baghdad and just before dinner, William Kai Stangeland Menchaca, a.k.a. WKSM, & Jackson "W" Baugh wrote the first song of the future in the guise of Silver Daggers. One of their favorite songs was Silver Dagger, the way Joan Baez sings it, but there were two of them so they made it plural. "Let's just rip off the Screamers," it rang so true. Besides, the rice was almost ready. They failed and some sort of noise/synth punk was born. They played six shows before they got bored of each other. Marcus Savino, Jackson's lifelong friend and former bandmate in Herr K and Soddamn Inssein, was brought in to kill the drums and Jackson moved to bass. Jenna Thornhill, a "life prodigy" who was excreting her talents exclusively towards the band Mika Miko at the time, woke up in the practice space next to a saxophone and was assigned to the band to lend an air of nubility. "A Tradition of Destroying the LA Times Building" was created at KXLU. This was their first release. Jackson left Los Angeles for New York cause the pizza in LA sux. Everyone was excited to get someone who actually knew how to play bass and it obviously had to be Steve Kim, a Los Angeles based "good bass player." This new rhythm section pushed the band in an entirely new direction-- employing made up contrives such as irrational rhythm and counter point. The new line-up wrote all new music, toured the West Coast and put out their first vinyl, a split 7" with Blue Silk Sutures on Kill Shaman Records. Two releases on Not Not Fun followed: A 30 min cassette of improvisations dubbed "Pasado De Verga" and a self titled 7"/art book. It was around this time that Jackson got jealous of his former band and demanded they let him rejoin. Also demanding to play the instrument previously banned in Silver Daggers.... the guitar! The five piece Silver Daggers toured again and played more shows with bands & artists such as The Ex, !!!, Lightning Bolt, Mika Miko, Death Sentence: Panda!, No Age, Get Hustle, Gang Wizard, The CD6, Thurston Moore, Spencer Yeh, BARR, DOS, KIT, The Mae Shi & Abe Vigoda to name a good few. News of the Silver Daggers' weird music and unpredictable live shows reached Ben McOsker via George Chen and his Zum Audio Vol 3. Having never seen them, and without knowledge of SD's plans to court his label, Ben decided to release their first full length album on Load Records. "New High & Ord" was recorded and mixed in 7 days by analog engineering witch doctor, Mike Voodoo McHugh. The record is an ultrasound of this cancerous band, a culmination of music Silver Daggers have written through tumultuous times. After recording was completed Gary Panter made a painting for the album cover. Considering the fact that years earlier Panter had created the Screamers logo, one of the most iconic images of first wave LA punk, it's only fitting that he would also create the imagery for "New High & Ord" and LA's latest stab at musical anarchy. Silver Daggers continue to pierce the murmuring heart of tyranny. DOWNLOAD mp3 of joy from "new high & ord" ALBUM COVER (300 dpi JPG) [PC users: right click "Save As", MAC Users: <CTRL> Click "Save As"] Album Cover PRESS PICTURES (300 dpi JPG) [PC users: right click "Save As", MAC Users: <CTRL> Click "Save As"] Picture 1 Picture 2 Picture 3 Picture 4 |
