Slim Cessna's Auto Club - The Commandments According To SCAC

Slim Cessna's Auto Club The Commandments According To SCAC Label Glitterhouse Records Erstveröffentlichung 02.09.2016 Format CD Lieferzeit 1 – 3 Werktage Preis 15,75 € (inkl. MwSt. zzgl. Versand)

Am 02. September 2016, werden Slim Cessnaþs Auto Club ihr neues Album „The Commandments According to SCAC“ auf Glitterhouse Records veröffentlichen. Exakt 24 Jahre nachdem Slim Cessna sich von den Denver Gentlemen trennte, den großartigen Pionieren dieser speziellen Spielart des Gothic Americana, bei denen auch David Eugene Edwards (16 Horsepower, Wovenhand) seine ersten musikalischen Sporen verdiente, um den Auto Club zu gründen.
Anstatt sich auf den Lorbeeren auszuruhen, wie es viele Bands, die auf solch eine lange und erfolgreiche Geschichte zurückblicken können, machen würden, suchte der Auto Club die Herausforderung und brach mit seinen alten Gewohnheiten, um „The Commandments According to SCAC“ aufzunehmen: „Wallace Stenger may have captured the spirit of the west in his 1971 novel „Angle of Repose“. Jim Thompson surely exposed the lurid underbelly of the Western experience. Cormac McCarthy definitely evoked the conflicted, tortured spirit of small town life on the frontier. William Faulkner and Flannery OþConnor informed all of them with a humor and soulfulness“ sagt Slim. Es ist genau diese literarische Tradition, die die Inspiration für die fesselnden Lyrics und den qualvollen, aber dennoch feierlichen Sound des Sextetts aus Denver bis heute liefert und es der Band ermöglichte, weltweit eine treue Fangemeinde aufzubauen.
„The Commandments According to SCAC“ behandelt Slim Cessna typische Themen wie transzendente Bestrafung, Vergebung und Erlösung. Dieses Mal jedoch, wie es schon auf den Alben Cipher (2008) und Unentitled (2011) angedeutet wurde, hoffnungsvoller und intensiver als je zuvor. Das Album markiert einen weiteren Meilenstein in der Karriere der Band aus Colorado. Ohne seine Wurzeln zu verleugnen, schafft es „The Commandments“ die Grenzen zwischen Licht und Dunkelheit fallen zu lassen, düster aber trotzdem feierlich: „ ... charmingly dusky and spare sound breathes with a color and delicacy of feeling that perhaps sat in the background in times past.“ - so Slim. Das Fundament des Songwriting und Sounds der Band bildet dabei immer die gemeinsame Vision von Slim, Munly Munly und Lord Dwight Pentacost.
„The Commandments According to SCAC“ zeigt eine Band, die ihren Zenit noch lange nicht überschritten hat und die kreativen Energien dazu nutzt, ein weiteres Kapitel ihrer Bandgeschichte aufzuschlagen.

In September 2016, Slim Cessnaþs Auto Club is releasing its new album The Commandments According to SCAC. It has been twenty-four years since Slim Cessna parted ways with The Denver Gentlemen (in which a young David Eugene Edwards was seen and heard for the first time), that grand progenitor of the peculiar strain of Gothic Americana unique to the Mile High City, to form Slim Cessnaþs Auto Club with a group of talented peers.
Many bands with a long and successful run like that would stick close to its roots. But rather than rest on well-earned laurels, the Auto Club challenged itself to break with well-worn modes of operating for the new record. Wallace Stenger may have captured the spirit of the west in his 1971 novel Angle of Repose. Jim Thompson surely exposed the lurid underbelly of the Western experience. Cormac McCarthy definitely evoked the conflicted, tortured spirit of small town life on the frontier. William Faulkner and Flannery OþConnor informed all of them with a humor and soulfulness. It is that literary tradition that imbues the harrowing and celebratory sound and riveting stories of Slim Cessnaþs Auto Club. And for a full twenty years it was largely in that realm of art that the Auto Club reveled and garnered a loyal cult following well beyond the boundaries of the Queen City of the Plains.
The title evokes the themes of cosmic punishment and redemption that have served the bandþs songwriting engine so well in the past. But this set of songs sounds more hopeful and expansive, a quality that was always there but this time out the brighter sides of the songwriting are emphasized. Hints of this saw early full-flown expression on 2008þs “Cipher” and “Unentitled” from 2011.
With The Commandments, however, the Auto Club seems to step forward into the promise of its own possibilities. It remains capable of the heady darkness and celebratory intensity with which it made its name. Now that charmingly dusky and spare sound breathes with a color and delicacy of feeling that perhaps sat in the background in times past. Maybe itþs partly due to the greater creative contributions from longtime collaborator Rebecca Vera and The Peeler or the inclusion of upright bass player Ian OþDougherty. But the core of the bandþs songwriting and sound is anchored firmly in the vision of Slim, Munly Munly and Lord Dwight Pentacost. Whatever the true source of this transformation, “The Commandments According to SCAC” sounds like a band marshalling its creative inspiration to mark out a new chapter of its existence. When you get to see the Auto Club tour following the albumþs release, youþll get to see an already mighty band reinvigorated by this new spirit as well as by the fire that has long burned in its collective belly.

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