Drink Up Buttercup release Born and Thrown on a Hook
By bandweblogs on Feb 11, 2010 in Albums, Bands, Music News, New Releases | Tags: Bands on Twitter, Drink Up Buttercup
Philadelphia pop quartet Drink Up Buttercup will release their first full-length album,
Born and Thrown on a Hook, on March 23, 2010 through Yep Roc Records.
Drink Up Buttercup earned the attention of fans with the release of their debut 7" Sosey & Dosey on Kanine Records, which was described as "Beatle-esque but in a kitchen sink kind of way," (Brooklyn Vegan) and "60's psychedelic carnival" (Stereogum).
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The band, comprised of Jim Harvey (vocals, guitar), Ben Money (bass, organ), Mike Cammarata (drums) and Farzad Houshiarnejad (keyboards), furthered their notoriety through their bombastic live shows with The New York Times going so far to say that the band "mesmerizes and clobbers live."
Drink Up Buttercup's first full album navigates a surrealistic geography somewhere between the grittiness of a Tom Waits' song and the fairy tales of Han Christian Anderson.
Produced by Philadelphia's own Bill Moriarty (Dr. Dog, Man Man) and mixed by Rusty Santos (Animal Collective, Owen Pallett, Panda Bear), Born and Thrown on a Hook demonstrates a preoccupation with flawed protagonists, drunks and star-crossed lovers.
"We knew we were making something great and we all fought about what added to the greatness and what detracted," Moriarty said. "We tried every way possible to make recordings: live, one at a time, analog tape, computer... in the end all of them worked and none was the solution."
"This is an album I'm glad to have been a part of," Moriarty continued. "It was a powerful
experience with all the attractive and repellent parts of being alive rolled up in it."
In anticipation of Born and Thrown on a Hook, Drink Up Buttercup is releasing a live video document of every song on the upcoming album each week via www.drinkupbuttercup.com, culminating on March 23rd.
Each video is stripped of studio trickery and audio comfort zones, embracing the strange surroundings they find themselves in - basements filled with balloons, children's playgrounds and old folks homes.
"Drink Up Buttercup, a quartet from Philadelphia that lunges joyously into every jangly chord and full-throated chorus... brought a smile to every face I could see, and the bashing on that garbage can lid couldn't obscure some genuinely pretty and expressive harmonies." - The New York Times
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