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All of Minmae's songs are facing west, toward the land of the dead. Not because the band has a fascination with the afterlife, but because, when the excavators pry open the tombs and hear the disparate sounds of this prolific band/concept, they will know that there was at least some pattern, some meaning to it all.
Songwriter Sean Brooks' penchant for turning the caustic into works of morbid beauty is once again evident in at once Minmae's most inspired and most cohesive work to date; following the success of 2006's Le Grand Essor de la Maison du Monstre, the Northwest staple return with a new record, a new line-up and a new mission statement. 835, their ninth full-length (and third on Greyday Records), finds the band at the crossroads of experiment and pop, of noise and rhythm, of chaos and order. Recorded in the band's hometown of Portland, OR, after spending four of the previous six months on the road, the fruits of a very spatially dispersed labor have culminated in a 14 song pop detour that documents Minmae at a peak, a phase, a transition, a beginning, and an end, all at once. 835 will be the album that carves the deepest niche for the band in an ever increasingly complex and changing world.
Enjoy. And watch your back.
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