Menfolk
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Artist / Band / Musician
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"beast one / man nil" [LP], Play/Rec 35. Released May 31st 2010
1. Hell Ahoy (04:08)
2. Matador (03:58)
3. Heart & Sling (04:14)
4. The Bird (02:36)
5. Leather pants and Ponytail (03:36)
6. From the Horse’s Mouth (03:39)
7. Column 79 (02:43)
8. Skeletons (04:34)
9. N.H. (02:12)
10. Rubato (con song) (05:09)
Available in several formats:
| LP [180g]+download |
mp3 [320 kbit] |
| super hi-fi 24 bit wave files |
iTunes |
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"Five Years" [cd], Play/Rec 24. Released jul. 3 2006
1. Barra Head: "If It Ain’t Broke"
2. The Unit : "Simonix/Deserters"
3. Lack: "Kill the Lights"
4. Menfolk: "Chilblain Heart"
5. Monoton: "The Storyteller’s Been Up All Night"
6. The Violet Hour: "Are We Enemies"
7. Mount Eerie: "Not Too Fancy"
8. Janosch: "Wooly Mammoth’s Mighty Absence"
9. The Kind of Bitter: "The Beat Up Blues"
10. The Magic Bullet Theory: "Dead Fight"
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mp3 [320 kbit] |
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"Colossus" [cd], Play/Rec 20. Released nov. 21 2005
1.Hell Is in Texas (4:01)
2. The Well (4:01)
3. One Is All (4:35)
4. Ghosts (3:50)
5. Zero Is Also a Number (3:49)
6. Colossus (5:43)
7. The Simplicity of Not Knowing (4:00)
8. Nine (4:13)
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mp3 [320 kbit] |
iTunes |
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"Are We Enemies / Arrival" [12"], Play/Rec 13. Released jul. 28 2004
Barra Head
1. The Discipline of Making Sense (6:09)
2. The Paranoia Twist (3:54)
3. All Is Not Lost Pt. 2 (3:49)
4. A Ship by the Name (3:54)
Menfolk
1. Whose Loss is This (4:25)
2. Are We Enemies (3:52)
3. One Is All (4:50)
4. Patterns Of a Reason (4:40)
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| mp3 [320 kbit] |
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"Double Date" [7"], Play/Rec 04. Released sep. 12 2001
Menfolk:
1. Math (3:02)
2. These Are Just Words (3:06)
The Unit:
1. Famous Last Trick (3:11)
2. If It Aint Broke (4:56)
- Buy | vinyl [7"]
| mp3 [320 kbit] |
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Menfolk is the sound of defiant, adversarial, complex rock that can not
easily be tamed. Rumbling, rattling and down right angry - sometimes
it feels good to just to let loose. Menfolk lets loose on the new album
"Beast One / Man Nil".
"Beast One / Man Nil" is Menfolk's long awaited sequel to the massive
debut album, "Colossus". 5 years have passed and we haven't seen or
heard much from these guys. But Menfolk has never been a band that let
demand dictate the output: Records are released when they are ready, and
concerts are played when the right time comes. This attitude can be heard
on Menfolks new album. This band is not sucking up to anyone. This is not
radio friendly rock, not young fashion punk, not cool laid back rock or the
soundtrack to a rebellious generation. The four strange fellows in Menfolk
drag the listener around by their ears on the 10 tracks of the album by
means of guitar feedback, twisted drum beats and fierce texts about life and
death. Menfolk do not make compromises - for this recording Menfolk even
designed and built a lot of the equipment them selves - and the artwork for
Beast One / Man Nil displays some of this equipment.
Menfolk has once again produced the album themselves but unlike previous
recording sessions Menfolk decided to not be all alone on the recordings of
this album. Building on the successful cooperation that Per Chnöeldh of
Menfolk and Jakob Reichert Nielsen have experienced on previous
releases (Lack "Saturate Every Atom", Rising etc.) Menfolk decided to invite
Jacob in. Jacob participated in the first recording sessions and has
subsequently been responsible for mixing the album. Bob Weston (Shellac)
has been responsible for the gentle mastering that really gets the music
"out", while keeping the dynamics of the recording.
Menfolk has existed since 1999 and consists of drummer, guitarist / singer
and two bassists. Outcome of the unconventional line-up with two bassists
is edgy aggressive rock in its own form and expression. Complexity, noise
and nerve lay the foundation of this music, which does not let itself be
confined by the limitations of conventional rock. It ´s an anarchic take on the
sound of rock when set free from all constraints.
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