COLLAPSE UNDER THE EMPIRE - Find A Place To Be Safe
CD/Digital, Sister Jack SJ-0904
Streetdate: January 15 2010
www.sisterjack.de
www.collapseundertheempire.com
The story of the band started 2007, when CHRIS BURDA and MATTHEW JASON got together to develop their own music under the name of Collapse Under The Empire. They both released the first four songs for the EP Paintball in summer 2008.
After that they came up with their self-produced debut album, System-breakdown, which was recorded in their own studio and saw the light as a digital album of day in spring 2009. The recording allows dreamy melancholic melody to flow within an atmospherically interwoven,
electrifying sonic tapestry with angry moments. Collapse Under The Empire always sounding multi-faceted from minimalist, crackling, fragile sound spots to mounting, monumental sonic thunderstorms. The songs were praised by critics and audience alike and brought the young band a lot of attention on the scene. Radio station in the US and Europe discovered them quickly and played their songs.
For the second album the band were signed by the indie label Sister Jack. The new album Find A Place To Be Safe will be out over Cargo Records on Nov. 27th 2009. It was mastered by Michael Schwabe (Einstürzende Neubauten, Kettcar, Beatsteaks) at Monoposto Studio. The appropriate single "Crawling" was pre-publicized on Sept. 25th 2009 over Believe Digital. Despite occasionally intricate arrangements, Collapse Under The Empire never lose sight of their songs and consistently stick to the leitmotif in everything they do -which is what makes their music a unique experience and worth listening to.
Collapse Under The Empire created their own unique style and by doing what they confined to themselves from post-rock standards. Find A Place To Be Safe brims over with power and intensity. It's a soundtrack for the apocalypse without a happy end. Inspired by Orwell's thought of an authoritarian state Collapse Under The Empire composed songs, like "Take A Shot On Me" and the claustrophobic album title track, to create a fitting instrumental background for societies similar to Orwell's dark visions for the future. There are dark end time scenarios accentuated musically, which can also be seen in the artwork.
Find A Place To Be Safe is an album without any restrictions. Keyboard sounds flood your auditory canals, strings rule over the silence, while guitar walls pierce through sound barriers. Your own imagination is be winged by reappearing flashes of sound that sometimes flow through what you expected to be silent. Everything goes, everything is possible and the album seems to change when you listen to it more than once. Collapse Under The Empire will cause the listener to react from total relaxation to cold sweated fear, and then embark on a journey through colourful worlds of sound. A journey through ice, fire, fog and reality to help you find your own soul.
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