The Icarus Line - Wildlife (CD, Double vinyl LP)

Brand new album from LA Firebrands The Icarus Line: "Wildlife presents the newest chapter in a bizarre saga of sonic ambition and utterly stubborn will. A rock n' roll nuke followed by a couple months of radiated fallout. This record did not just make itself and get into your hands by accident today, it was written, produced and recorded under the constant threat of extinction. As we all know the bills keep coming long after the money is gone. It is another document from a distant corner of Los Angeles that believes in Rock N' Roll music as art and religion. This collection of songs is finer than the last and those before that. We, The Icarus Line may never get to make a record again and so every record has been made as if it's the very last one. That's how this music is supposed to feel though isn't it? Like a fight to survive in a musical landscape dominated by frat boys in ships clothing. If you love Iggy, If you miss Roxy Music, if you feel Funkadelic, if you need a flash of danger in your life, if you want a little lust around, if you love Rock N' Roll music that is actually made by motivated f**k ups who had no other choice, then this is for you. Bon Appetite. " - Joe Cardamone / The Icarus Line. There you have it, from the words of the Icarus Line main man himself>>> This is one of the albums of 2011...

PRESS: "...the Icarus Line pummel with an intentness and honesty that trumps the best of their contemporaries." - Pitchfork "These Los Angeles noise-punk brats built their rep by electrifying (and infuriating) audiences at their self-consciously chaotic shows, the wildest of which got the group banned from venues in Austin and Hollywood." - Spin "The band is more than mere axe-bludgeoners. They've got original ideas that show a willingness to experiment with music beyond speaker-hiccuping thrash." - PopMatters "I have said it for years and it remains true, The Icarus Line is the best rock and roll band in this city." - LA Record "If music were tangible you'd let this penetrate you anyway it wanted, and then sleep in the wet patch... The Icarus Line are back and they want blood. God help those that would dare stand in their way." - Drowned In Sound

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