Last Night You Saw This Band
by Minuit
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Digital Album
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Double 12" vinyl
The vinyl will be released Fri 15 February, 2013. Two tasty pieces of 150gm vinyl pressed at URP in Nashville, Tennessee which plays at 45rpm
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Book Of The Dead
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Islands
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What We Know
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Good Ol' Days
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Ghost
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Stories for Boys
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Heaven
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Warheads
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Sisters on the Balcony
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Sit Down Beside Me
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about
Minuit releases their 4th studio album Last Night You Saw This Band. Having toured their synths and samplers from Hanoi to Helsinki on the live circuit for over a decade, this trio have crafted their own refreshingly different sound - it's not what you'd expect from an electronic act.
Smart and fresh, this album is more stripped-back than we're used to from Minuit, allowing crisp and percussive songs to shine through. Along with the mandatory lo-end, the album includes gypsy brass, rhythmic island beats, swampy slide guitar, and even some kids from an orphanage in Haiti.
The birth place for many of the songs was Rarotonga in the Cook Islands, close to their home country, New Zealand, as Ruth took a sabbatical in a scuba dive shop. If this sounds more like truancy than hardwork you may be right.
Title track Last Night You Saw this Band taps into those moments when friends remind you what life is all about - “you say that nothing matters, there's only grace and disgrace” - all to the background of a surprisingly, mariachi-style house party.
Islands references the Cook Islands, Kupe and the movie Marathon Man in a salute to adventure.
The brooding Ghost taunts: “You say stars align, ha! Can't you see these stars are blind”, while the luscious Good Ol' Days counters with bravery in the face of slim chance: “Who would have thought it'd be us two, who ended up scraping through”.
Warheads is classic Minuit, mixing sinister with salvation - “I think of you my darling, when the warheads start to fall”.
Following the example of onepercentcollective.org, one-percent of album sales goes to the Kenbe La Foundation in Haiti. Kenbe La is the Haitian phrase for 'Never Give Up'. They help disadvantaged children get the education and support they need to have a life. kenbelafoundation.org
Merci beaucoup, thankyou - Minuit
Smart and fresh, this album is more stripped-back than we're used to from Minuit, allowing crisp and percussive songs to shine through. Along with the mandatory lo-end, the album includes gypsy brass, rhythmic island beats, swampy slide guitar, and even some kids from an orphanage in Haiti.
The birth place for many of the songs was Rarotonga in the Cook Islands, close to their home country, New Zealand, as Ruth took a sabbatical in a scuba dive shop. If this sounds more like truancy than hardwork you may be right.
Title track Last Night You Saw this Band taps into those moments when friends remind you what life is all about - “you say that nothing matters, there's only grace and disgrace” - all to the background of a surprisingly, mariachi-style house party.
Islands references the Cook Islands, Kupe and the movie Marathon Man in a salute to adventure.
The brooding Ghost taunts: “You say stars align, ha! Can't you see these stars are blind”, while the luscious Good Ol' Days counters with bravery in the face of slim chance: “Who would have thought it'd be us two, who ended up scraping through”.
Warheads is classic Minuit, mixing sinister with salvation - “I think of you my darling, when the warheads start to fall”.
Following the example of onepercentcollective.org, one-percent of album sales goes to the Kenbe La Foundation in Haiti. Kenbe La is the Haitian phrase for 'Never Give Up'. They help disadvantaged children get the education and support they need to have a life. kenbelafoundation.org
Merci beaucoup, thankyou - Minuit
credits
released 21 December 2012
All songs written by Ruth Carr, Paul Dodge & Ryan Beehre
Produced by Ryan Beehre & Paul Dodge
Mixed by Ryan Beehre
Additional engineering by Jason Erskine
Mastered by Evan Short @ Mercury Audio
Released by Dollhouse Records
Published by Native Tongue Music Publishing
All songs written by Ruth Carr, Paul Dodge & Ryan Beehre
Produced by Ryan Beehre & Paul Dodge
Mixed by Ryan Beehre
Additional engineering by Jason Erskine
Mastered by Evan Short @ Mercury Audio
Released by Dollhouse Records
Published by Native Tongue Music Publishing
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- Track Name: Last Night You Saw This Band
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Last Night You Saw This Band
and you came running home to me
it changed the way you thought, you said
it changed the way you think
you danced around the room,
pulled me up onto the couch
my pile of drinks fell over,
all the goodness running out
Last night you saw this band
and you came running home to me
it had all the bells and whistles
it taught you how to be free
you said that nothing matters,
there’s only grace and disgrace
you kindly didn’t notice
as the tears ran down my face
I can be sorry as well - Track Name: Book Of The Dead
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Book of the Dead
I wake up in the night
the moon is full
the fear is bright
these little creatures got a fright
I don’t know what it is I should do
I said I don’t know what it is I should do
Open the book of the dead
I write my name
Give me your pen
I said hold your breath now and count to ten
I said I don’t think I can do this again
I said I don’t think I can do this again
I said I don’t think I can do this again
I said hold your breath now and count to ten
I said I don’t think I can do this again
I don’t think I can do this again
I said hold your breath and count to ten
I don’t think I can do this again
Hold your breath now - Track Name: Islands
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Islands
We gotta go, we gotta get off this island
follow Kupe on water sparkling like diamonds
we gotta go, we gotta get off this island
follow Kupe on water sparkling like diamonds.
Turangi Valley she was counting her chickens
I didn’t steal it but he said a pig’s missing.
The vaka’s ready we migrate in the morning
the crops are picked and now the weather is warming.
Come on we’ve got to go.
There’s diamonds don’t you know
We throw them on the water
There’s diamonds don’t you know
We throw them on the water - Track Name: Stories for Boys
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The world, is now ruled by men,
in leather shoes, who’s hearts
need a good breaking
souls a-penetrating
liars on the manly mission
of global submission
should they be resisted, I said yes
But you are my darkest secret yet, I said yes
But you are my darkest secret yet - Track Name: Heaven
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Baby I can never tell, if this is heaven or hell, anymore
And the only thing I hear baby, I’ve come to fear baby
Loud and clear, baby loud and clear - Track Name: Warheads
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How shall we settle this, let’s settle this with bombs.
I think of you my darling, when the warheads start to fall - Track Name: Sisters on the Balcony
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There were sisters on the balcony who called: “hey soldier”
There were brothers on the battlefield who wouldn’t get older
There were people locked in carriages yelling: “is this over?”
Talk me through it is this how it’s meant to be? - Track Name: Sit Down Beside Me
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Breeze rustles coconut trees my dear
white sandy beaches run to oceans clear
my dear, sit down beside me here, my dear
sit down for a moment here
