Maniac - dead dance club CORETEX EXCLUSIVE
Description
EXCLUSIVE EU-Press of MANIAC's 2nd full length released on Dirt Cult which is long-time sold out.
This edition comes in CLEAR BLUE vinyl, hand-numbered and alternative screenprint cover. Limited to 300pcs total, 215pcs EXCLUSIVE at CORETEX 85pcs sold by the band only on their upcoming European tour.
On MANIAC's second full-length the twelve new tracks snap and bop by like any high quality vintage LA and Pacific Northwest punk but without any sense of nostalgia or fetish for a particular scene. The album spans the delights of the melodically layered and trade-off vocals of "Post Post World" and "Neutral Libido", the snarl-chants of "Children of the Dirt" and "Living in Stereo", and the controlled frenzy of openers "City Lights" and "Subject to Change" which start the album.
The band first came together in 2012 when Andrew Zappin and ex-Seattleite Zache Davis (The Girls, Cute Lepers) would hit the dark night spots of El Lay together, bonding over classic power pop and a passion for creating songs about "When the Going Gets Weird, the Weird turn Pro" (as Hunter Thompson once wrote). Adding Justin Maurer (Clorox Girls, LA Drugz) on second guitar and James Carman (Images, LA Drugz) on drums, solidifying the line-up.
The band has four songwriters, Zache Davis (bass and lead vocals), Justin Maurer (vocals and guitars), Andrew Zappin (guitar), and James Carman (drums and backing vocals). Dead Dance Club was recorded at Station House Studios in Echo Park by Mark Rains; the band produced the album with Maurer taking a strong hand.
James Carman's fever-pitch drumming infuses MANIAC's music with crisp, rhythmic urgency and sophisticated flourishes. His angelic vocal harmonies are one of the stylistic backbones of Dead Dance Club. MANIAC were finalists in LA Weekly's Best Live Band in LA awards category. There is something quintessentially LA about them, even if their punk rock would have fit perfectly with any decaying, hedonistic City of the West trying to abuse its body to believe in its soul.
FOR FANS OF: X, THE WEIRDOS, THE BRIEFS, SUSPECT PARTS, ...
Tracklist:
A1 City Lights
A2 Subject To Change
A3 Neutral Libido
A4 Midnight Kino
A5 Calamine
A6 Modern Love
B1 Children Of The Dirt
B2 Living In Stereo
B3 Officer Jimmy
B4 Precision Accuracy
B5 Post Post World
B6 Dead Dance Club
This edition comes in CLEAR BLUE vinyl, hand-numbered and alternative screenprint cover. Limited to 300pcs total, 215pcs EXCLUSIVE at CORETEX 85pcs sold by the band only on their upcoming European tour.
On MANIAC's second full-length the twelve new tracks snap and bop by like any high quality vintage LA and Pacific Northwest punk but without any sense of nostalgia or fetish for a particular scene. The album spans the delights of the melodically layered and trade-off vocals of "Post Post World" and "Neutral Libido", the snarl-chants of "Children of the Dirt" and "Living in Stereo", and the controlled frenzy of openers "City Lights" and "Subject to Change" which start the album.
The band first came together in 2012 when Andrew Zappin and ex-Seattleite Zache Davis (The Girls, Cute Lepers) would hit the dark night spots of El Lay together, bonding over classic power pop and a passion for creating songs about "When the Going Gets Weird, the Weird turn Pro" (as Hunter Thompson once wrote). Adding Justin Maurer (Clorox Girls, LA Drugz) on second guitar and James Carman (Images, LA Drugz) on drums, solidifying the line-up.
The band has four songwriters, Zache Davis (bass and lead vocals), Justin Maurer (vocals and guitars), Andrew Zappin (guitar), and James Carman (drums and backing vocals). Dead Dance Club was recorded at Station House Studios in Echo Park by Mark Rains; the band produced the album with Maurer taking a strong hand.
James Carman's fever-pitch drumming infuses MANIAC's music with crisp, rhythmic urgency and sophisticated flourishes. His angelic vocal harmonies are one of the stylistic backbones of Dead Dance Club. MANIAC were finalists in LA Weekly's Best Live Band in LA awards category. There is something quintessentially LA about them, even if their punk rock would have fit perfectly with any decaying, hedonistic City of the West trying to abuse its body to believe in its soul.
FOR FANS OF: X, THE WEIRDOS, THE BRIEFS, SUSPECT PARTS, ...
Tracklist:
A1 City Lights
A2 Subject To Change
A3 Neutral Libido
A4 Midnight Kino
A5 Calamine
A6 Modern Love
B1 Children Of The Dirt
B2 Living In Stereo
B3 Officer Jimmy
B4 Precision Accuracy
B5 Post Post World
B6 Dead Dance Club
| Band: | Maniac |
| Title: | Dead Dance Club |
| Release: | 2019 |
| Label: | Coretex Records |
| Bandinfo: | https://www.facebook.com/WeAreManiac/ |
