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Spells

by The Laureates

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1.
All Eyes Open 03:19
2.
Changes, Etc. 03:45
3.
Life of Leisure 04:57
4.
Worry Worry Worry 04:16
5.
Robbers 04:09
6.
Oh, Delusion 02:30
7.
Don't Lose Your Cool 03:06
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8.
Monitor Me 02:43
9.
Please Explain 02:48
10.
Moon Bitch 05:01

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The songs on Spells combine the crystalline, modern-pop sensibilities of their first album, There Are No More Gentlemen with the more echoed, vintage analog acoustics of the No Kontrol EP, producing an electrifying amalgam of the energies of their previous recordings. The new album finds the band straying from the 3-minute pop song formula on tracks such as “Life of Leisure” and “Moon Bitch,” the former starting out as a bouncy strut of sunshine-y pop before veering into darker psychedelic noise, and the latter closing out the album as a slow-burn vamp that brings to mind a marriage of Ziggy Stardust and Doolittle. The narrator on the menacing track, “Robbers” slips in and out of paranoid nightmares of both the sleeping and sleep-walking varieties while the drums shuffle along in concert with a Velvets-inspired guitar riff. But the record still retains The Laureates’ signature blasts of pop on songs like the anthemic “Changes, Etc.”, the angular “Don’t Lose Your Cool”, and the weary but bright-eyed “Oh, Delusion.”

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released June 28, 2011

Recorded by Johnathan Crawford
Mastered by Carl Saff

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