The Dead Science - Villianaire

Seattle-based band The Dead Science have created a majestic, ornate and soaring collection of post-punk avant-pop on this, their fourth full-length album, and their first for Constellation. Think The Associates meets Shudder To Think, ace.

Villainaire is a brilliant song cycle driven by layers of Sam Mickens’ vibrato- laden voice, dark lyricism and sterling guitar work. Bassist (acoustic and electric) Jherek Bischoff and drummer Nick Tamburro anchor the tunes with endlessly inventive polyrhythmic suppleness. Together the trio unleash a truly unique sound, intensely literate in both word and sound, with a controlled and commanding fury.

The songs on Villainaire range from epic orchestral pop to sinister jazz-rock to weary, soul-bleached balladry. Sam Mickens writes about "moral pragmatism and experimental moral nihilism, black-out drunkenness and its psychic and emotional repercussions, and the continuum of baroque fantasy and stark reality" - all delivered with inimitable, seductive, and at times disturbing operatics.

Fans of Shudder To Think, Scott Walker, The Associates , Deerhoof, Xiu Xiu, Blonde Redhead and/or US Maple should find deep and abiding pleasure in Villainaire.

Guest vocalists, Shudder To Think’s Craig Wredren and Celebration’s Katrina Ford

The album is available on CD and deluxe 180g LP, in custom-printed jackets of white and gold ink on heavy black artstock paper;  the LP version is screen-printed by hand.

Tracklisting: 1 Throne Of Blood (The Jump Off) 2 The Dancing Destroyer 3 Make Mine Marvel 4 Monster Island Czars 5 Lamentable 6 Death Duel Productions 7 Wife You 8 Holliston 9 Black Lane 10 Sword Cane 11 Clemency

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