Nowadays ex-Desaparecidos guitarist/Statistics frontman Denver Dalley’s recording electro-acoustic music under the Intramural moniker. He and co-producer Sam Shacklock’s longtime-in-the-making debut This Is A Landslide includes 10 tracks, each with a different vocalist, including Greg Dulli, Judah Nagler of the Velvet Teen, Minipop’s Tricia Kanne, the Pink Spiders? Matt Fricton, and John Roderick of the Long Winters. We’re happy to premiere a swoony non-album tune “Impairment Begins with the First Drink.”
Those chirpy sing-a-song vocals are provided by Teeter Sperber from LadybiRdS, who steers the tune with a dreamy indie-pop propulsion. The boy/girl call and response alongside clicks and drags remind us of the Postal Service, but to get a sense of the project’s scope — and how much things shift with a new set of lungs — take a listen to guitar-accented “From The Ground,” the tune with John Roderick song dropping knowledge about architects and AutoCAD.
See — just like that — edgy and intelligent electro-rock. Can’t wait to hear how Dulli sweats across the Intramural soundscape.
This Is A Landslide is out 10/23 on Slowdance.
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I do believe this is pretty fucking awesome, and I haven’t even gotten to the Long Winters track yet.
i was watching this desaparecidos bootleg i got the other day, and it never really struck me until then, but denver is REALLY really tall. and i refuse to even acknowledge the term ‘ex-Desaparecidos’ they will return one day!
FYI
The Dulli contribution is posted on the Twilight Singers MySpace page:(http://www.myspace.com/twilightsingers)
Sounds pretty good to me!
This is going to be a great record. Can’t wait to hear the rest of it!
Justin Pierre, lead singer of Motion City Soundtrack, wrote the melodies and lyrics for Impairment Begins with the First Drink. Amazing collaboration from all sides!