 | Laminated Cat Umbrella Weather (CD) |
Bio:
“The best young psychedelic band in years...” - Robert Schneider, The Apples (in stereo)
Cut to night. A dragonfly skims the ocean, broadcasting ripples: starburst on India ink. Cut to Athens, Georgia. A finger presses PLAY. Laminated Cat, recently transplanted from New England, have finished their debut album Umbrella Weather.
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On The Web:
www.myspace.com/laminatedcatt
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www.gardengaterecords.com
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Bio (Continued):
Ornate psychedelia pours from the loudspeakers, ranging from delicate to druggy. Acoustic guitars give way to flourishes of orchestrated static. Fuzz pedals filter exotic riffs. A ghostly voice conjures dreams in pop song format.
Umbrella Weather: One experimental composer, one multi-instrumentalist, and two identical twins add up to layers of epic, psychedelic bliss. While we are engaged in numerology, let us note that no member was over 21 as of the recording of the album: “The best young psychedelic band in years,” according to Apples (in stereo) frontman, Robert Schneider.
Singer/guitarist Tanner Smith graduated from university with a degree in experimental composition. His songs are tuneful and heavily lysergic, with lyrics reading like abstract poetry. Smith’s younger brothers, twins Camden and Cooper Smith, play drums and bass like a steam-powered ocean liner. Singer/multi-instrumentalist AJ Griffin’s songs lean more toward Americana than Smith’s—plaintive, yearning, soaked in layers of soulful psychedelia.
Umbrella Weather is the second release on Garden Gate Records, the psychedelic label operated by brother-sister team Craig Morris and Marci Schneider, wife of Robert Schneider, with input from the Apples (in stereo) leader (who co-founded and operated the vinyl-and-cassette-only Elephant 6 Records in the 1990’s).
Featuring cover art by W. Cullen Hart and Bill Doss (Olivia Tremor Control), and engineered by Craig Morris (Apples [in stereo], Deathray Davies, Thee American Revolution, Ideal Free Distribution) at Garden Gate Studio – the Kentucky label’s in-house studio, where much of the audio gear is hand-built by Morris himself – Umbrella Weather will appeal to fans of the Elephant 6 Collective, and, more generally, to listeners of American psychedelia.
On The Web:
www.myspace.com/laminatedcatt
www.facebook.com/pages/Laminated-Cat/68549747533
www.gardengaterecords.com
www.myspace.com/gardengaterecords