Posts Tagged ‘Foil Deer’

SPEEDY ORTIZ – ” Live On KEXP “

Posted: June 13, 2015 in MUSIC
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KEXP Live presents Speedy Ortiz performing live in the KEXP studio. Recorded May 27, 2015.

Songs:
The Graduates
Raising The Skate
Puffer
Ginger

Speedy Ortiz is an American indie rock band from Northampton, Massachusetts, United States. The band originated in 2011 as Sadie Dupuis‘ solo project while she was teaching songwriting at a summer camp, recording her own material using her laptop. Two releases resulted from this solo endeavor, the Cop Kicker EP, and the album, The Death Of Speedy Ortiz.

The project expanded into a full band in late 2011. The group independently released “Taylor Swift” b/w “Swim Fan,” which was followed by 2012’s Sports, released on Exploding in Sound Records.

Their debut album, Major Arcana, was released on Carpark Records in 2013. The album was well received. Pitchfork Media deemed the album “Best New Music” In 2014, guitarist Matt Robidoux was replaced by fellow Massachusetts musician Devin McKnight of Grass is Green. On January 21, 2015, Dupuis announced their second studio album, “Foil Deer”, which was released on April 21, 2015.

SPEEDY ORTIZ – ” Basketball “

Posted: May 29, 2015 in MUSIC
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Massachusetts quartet Speedy Ortiz have offered up a demo of this unreleased track for a 12-inch featuring acts from the Carpark stable to celebrate the US indie label’s 16th birthday. A lo-fi affair featuring Sadie Dupuis’ cracked vocal over acoustic guitars, it’s less immediately biting than much of their superlative 2015 LP ‘Foil Deer’, but still rolls along with enough melodic idiosyncrasies to elevate it from mere acoustic pleasantness. Fourth single from a special basketball-themed picture disc to celebrate Carpark’s 16th anniversary. This release consists of nine exclusive, full-length songs and 19 locked grooves by artists from all across the Carpark catalogue. All proceeds go to the Little Kids Rocks charity. Limited to 600 copies. Out in July 24, 2015.

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SPEEDY ORTIZ – ” Raising The Skate “

Posted: March 6, 2015 in MUSIC
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In a recent press release about Speedy Ortiz‘s new album, Foil Deer, bandleader Sadie Dupuis mentioned that the music “feels stronger.” There’s always been a certain confidence within the Massachusetts band’s songs, even the sad ones, that dates all the way back to the fuzzy brilliance of the 2012 single “Taylor Swift”  But “Raising the Skate” definitely feels like the band at its more empowered, and Dupuis’ diction is, per usual, razor-blade sharp. But just because I let you kill time dangling me from the quarry doesn’t mean that I won’t land on my feet, she sings softly during one of the song’s quieter moments, before it combusts into a sneering, muscular refrain: that’s cause I’m the boss, caller of the shots.

Dupuis says “Raising the Skate” is a mission statement of sorts. “It’s crazy frustrating seeing women and girls, myself included, put in positions in which they have to shirk credit for their talent or otherwise risk getting dissed as overbearing and bitchy,”  “Being ‘the bigger person’ and letting others’ petulant behavior slide doesn’t always make you feel big.”Foil Deer” is out April 21st via Carpark Records.

 

SPEEDY ORTIZ – The Graduates

Posted: March 6, 2015 in MUSIC
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Massachusetts quartet Speedy Ortiz have released “The Graduates,” the second single from their upcoming full-length album “Foil Deer”. Like first single “Raising the Skate,” the new track finds the foursome retreading the off-kilter, hypercatchy pop-rock that made their previous LP, 2013’s “Major Arcana”, a critical favorite. On the new track, the vocal layers are more ornate, the storytelling more elaborate and the instrumentation richer and more complex.The group’s penchant for lovable-loser subject matter persists: “I was the best at being second place, but now I’m just the runner-up,” frontwoman Sadie Dupuis laments of the love interest with whom she was a “French Club drop-out” and then a “law school reject.”

The track incorporates grunge grunge riffs that, when combined with Dupuis’ audible situational frustration, sound ripped from the Nineties underground – not exactly sugary but still an undeniable earworm. Though “The Graduates” is slower and more self-deprecating than “Raising the Skate”  which found Dupuis declaring, “I’m not bossy, I’m the boss” – when taken in tandem, the two new tracks reveal a flashier side of Speedy Ortiz than the one that made “Major Arcana”.

Foil Deer follows up last year’s four-song Real Hair EP, and is set for release on April 21st; “The Graduates” is available for instant download with any iTunes pre-order of the album.

SPEEDY ORTIZ – ” Raising the Skates “

Posted: February 12, 2015 in MUSIC
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SPEEDY ORTIZ have unveiled “Raising The Skates”, the first track from upcoming second album “Foil Deer”.

Speaking about the newfound outlook on the LP, the band’s Sadie Dupuis says:

“I gave up wasting mental energy on people who didn’t have my back. Listening to our old records, I get the sense I was putting myself in horrible situations just to write sad songs. This music isn’t coming from a dark place, and without slipping into self-empowerment jargon, it feels stronger.”

The track’s strewn with jagged guitars and calamitous percussion, the only thread keeping it on the straight and narrow is the Krist Novoselic-style bassline. It’s an empowering cut, with confident maxims propelled from Dupuis’ mouth with maximum moxie. “Foil Deer” is released 20th April on Carpark Records.