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Full album Stream
(192kbps)
Introduction
The Sun Breaks Every Way But One
Throw Yourself Apart mp3
Escape on High
Ditches
Figurehead
Young Adult
Monolith
US Release Date: Oct.
05, 2010
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one-sheet (PDF)
Artist Page
Press:
Jessi Hector
jessi@la-soc.com
Distribution:
Chicago
Independent US
Cargo
UK & Europe
Contact:
info(at)la-soc.com
soarslv(at)gmail.com
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Soars
LSE 018 CD/LP/Digital
Soars is a reflection and by-product
of Eastern Pennsylvania's Lehigh Valley; a fertile creative pool
over the past decade, spawning a healthy number of noise/experimental/punk
artists, bands, and venues (Brother JT, Pearls & Brass, etc).
With NYC and Philadelphia in close proximity, it's all too common
for the artist-as-drone to flee one's breeding grounds, leaving
the assiduous worker-bees to tend the hive. Comprised of four long-time
mainstays of the LV's spirited independent community (members of
Memes, Goodnight Stars Goodnight Air, Dark Circles and We Have Heaven),
the band's atmospheric scapes of dream-pop are awash with gauzy
hints of Cocteau Twins and My Bloody Valentine, propelled by lockstep
industrial rhythms. While destroying and rebuilding sonic textures
and lyrical myth, Soars mirrors the depth, beauty, and character
of their regenerative post-decay rust-belt colony.
Soars is: Briana Edwards, Chris
Giordani, David Kresge, Anthony Perrett
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Selected Press:
"Soars, in their first half-hour on record, do beguiling things with sweetness, distortion and suspense."
-David Fricke, Rolling Stone
"Angelic, textured swells break melancholic drone. Lilting vocals rise above layers of noise."
-Alarm
"A gorgeously somber debut, Soars does more than impress... eight tracks of deliberative exploration that pushes past familiar and embarks on something further, something unpredictable, fresh, and new...a transcendent full-length from oscillating intro to end."
-The Deli Magazine
"...brooding excellence, a methodical spiral burrowing into the psyche"
-Sentimentalist
"They push along delicately, establishing
moody elegance before ribbons of breathy words enter the mix. Like My
Bloody Valentine, the balance of instrumentation and vocals are projected
with paleness, but expertly considered, leaving your head floating in
a dreamy wash of sadness, begging for inward reflections..."
strangersinstereo.com
"Soars’ silky and slow burning self-titled album offers an
ethereal half hour of aerodynamic, cathartic sounds. Dramatic, elegant
dream pop sure to fire neurons in the Slowdive/Bark Psychosis/Talk Talk
part of the brain, Soars’ eight tracks congeal into a meditative
yet engaging and accessible mood exploration."
-The
Decibal Tolls
"Soars lock their style into something their own... this PA-based
group understands how to utilize sonic textures, as well as creating an
album of depth."
-Audio
Milk
"Soars have done a wonderful job of reimaging the dream-pop, post-punk
mood with an industrialized, martial feel. This juxtaposition of styles
is thoughtful, original, and most importantly, damn good."
-RadioInOpposition.com
"a dreamy bewitchment, mixing new-wave guitar repetitions, dark Gothic
undertones, dub, and electronica... There aren’t many bands that
sound like this, or can sound like this. Soars’ debut
is one of the best records I’ve heard this year."
-their
bated breath
"..brooding excellence, a methodical spiral burrowing into the psyche.."
-Sentimentalist
"The first single, "Throw Yourself Apart" delivers its
promising title by referencing sounds of the Cocteau Twins, while traveling
along barefoot on its own high grass landscape– and the rest of
Soars’ debut unfolds onto itself forming layers of seemingly tufted
sound."
-freewilliamsburg.com
"Music can often play on memory, personal experience, dreams, and
emotion. Great music can make the listener feel something they never knew
existed, filling a void that was never acknowledged. This is my experience
with the dreamy outfit SOARS."
-welistenforyou.blogspot.com
"Across the record there's substantial nuance both in dynamics and
style, including a throw-back Gothic gloom that we don't hear many of
Soars' musical peers referencing these days."
-clicky
clicky music blog
"...awash with waves of guitar that pull you about, as the vocals
build wispy worlds that are alive for only minutes at a time, and can
end as abruptly as they started."
-deadasdigital.com
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