MAN’S GIN (featuring multi-instrumentalist Erik Wunder of COBALT) have completed work on their debut album, “Smiling Dogs”.
Initially formed by Wunder in 2005 while still residing in Denver, Colorado (Wunder has since relocated and now dwells within the urban jungle of Brooklyn, NY), MAN’S GIN was initially centered around Wunder and a friend wielding their acoustic guitars and creating dark, simple, and stripped down Americana folk in homage to the drink the band is named after while touching upon that vacant hole in the soul. The result would end up being what has been deemed as “The Rum Demos”, which were the first collection of songs MAN’S GIN recorded and were just spread amongst the band’s close circle of friends.
Fast forward several years, Cobalt would put themselves back on the conscience of the extreme metal scene and would end up releasing two critically acclaimed albums, “Eater Of Birds” and “Gin” respectively, the latter being one of the most celebrated metal albums of 2009 from media and fans alike. By this time, Wunder had relocated to Brooklyn, NY to pursue the idea for MAN’S GIN even further and to expand upon the initial vision he had when MAN’S GIN was conceived five years ago in Colorado.
By recruiting two musicians (upright bass player Josh Lozano, also of industrial force Inswarm and who is also the guitarist of Jarboe’s live band, and pianist/guitarist Scott Edward) to help round out MAN’S GIN to more of a proper line-up, Wunder along with Lozano and Edward began incorporating more instruments into the sound picture by now adding drums, upright bass, piano, and electric guitars to help take the MAN’S GIN sound to the next stage. Songs were written, built upon, and then would inevitably be conjured onto tape within Colin Marston’s Thousand Caves studios during three consecutive weeks of labor and uncertainty this past January.
The result that would end up becoming “Smiling Dogs” is a moving musical pilgrimage reminiscent of the vibe of such acts as
WOVEN HAND, DEADBOY & THE ELEPHANT MEN, DAX RIGGS’ solo stuff, 16 HORSEPOWER, TOM WAITS, and BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN “Nebraska” era. With a singer-songwriter approach (obviously this is not metal in the slightest) that dabbles with southern rock and Americana folk, “Smiling Dogs” is a journey through the dark heart of America’s desolate, barren, and ghostly wastelands.
To be released late August, tracklisting for “Smiling Dogs” goes as follows:
1. Smiling Dogs
2. Free
3. Stone On My Head
4. Solid Gold Telephone
5. Nuclear Ambition Part 1
6. Nuclear Ambition Part 2
7. The Death Of Jimmy Sturgis
8. Hate.Money.Love.Woman.
9. Doggamn
zajawka:
http://www.profoundlorerecords.com/mp3/ ... miling.mp3
Może być ciekawie. Numer OK, bez specjalnej ekscytacji, jednak na tyle dobry, aby czekać na pełen album
edit: szybka korekta: numer zajebisty, pianinko bardzo gites. będzie kozak krążek.
...że jak, że wyżej niż BAN? Nie no nie róbcie mi tego Towarzyszu, serce mnie łamiecie 
