Solar Anus
by Årabrot
Added 2011-09-09 10:19:00Z
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Solar Anus is the fifth album by Norwegian noise rock act Årabrot. Their previous album, Revenge, from 2010, marked the "end of an era and the beginning of something new". While the first four Årabrot albums showed a staggering level of ambition and a sense of musical dramaturgy like no other band, Solar Anus shows a band that has found its form, the ambitions and latent genius of the past has come into light.
All of the eight tracks that make out Solar Anus are recorded and mixed by Steve Albini, known for his work with Pixies, Nirvana and his own bands Big Black and Shellac. Albini's stripped down approach to recording fit well with Arabrot's arrangements, consisting of nothing more than drums, vocals and a baritone guitar. After finishing the main recordings Arabrot collaborator Concept.Virus infested some of the tracks with electronics, but still most of the tracks were kept clean, open and focused on the primitive force of rhythms, chords and guttural vocals spitting out filthy prose.
The title and part of the thematic inspiration of the album is from the french literate Georges Bataille. Like Bataille, Årabrot is fascinated by the joy and energy of unifying the high and the low, the filth and the pure, the animalistic and the divine in man.
All of the eight tracks that make out Solar Anus are recorded and mixed by Steve Albini, known for his work with Pixies, Nirvana and his own bands Big Black and Shellac. Albini's stripped down approach to recording fit well with Arabrot's arrangements, consisting of nothing more than drums, vocals and a baritone guitar. After finishing the main recordings Arabrot collaborator Concept.Virus infested some of the tracks with electronics, but still most of the tracks were kept clean, open and focused on the primitive force of rhythms, chords and guttural vocals spitting out filthy prose.
The title and part of the thematic inspiration of the album is from the french literate Georges Bataille. Like Bataille, Årabrot is fascinated by the joy and energy of unifying the high and the low, the filth and the pure, the animalistic and the divine in man.
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