Arabrot - Solar Anus

Fifth album by the Norse Gods of Noise Rock! Arabrot playing their purest, wildest, ugliest rocknroll! Recorded and mixed by Steve Albini! Fiftieth release on Fysisk Format! Solar Anus is the fifth album by Norwegian noise rock act  Arabrot. Their previous album, REVENGE from 2010, marked the "end  of an era and the beginning of something new". While the first  four Arabrot albums showed a staggering level of ambition and a  sense of musical dramaturgy like no other band, Solar Anus shows  a band that has found its form, the ambitions and latent genius  of the past has come into light. All of the eight tracks that make out Solar Anus are recorded and  mixed by Steve Albini, known for his work with Pixies, Nirvana  and his own bands Big Black and Shellac. Albini's stripped down  approach to recording fit well with Arabrot's arrangements,  consisting of nothing more than drums, vocals and a baritone  guitar. After finishing the main recordings Arabrot collaborator  Concept.Virus infested some of the tracks with electronics, but  still most of the tracks were kept clean, open and focused on the primitive force of rhythms, chords and guttural vocals spitting  out filthy prose. The title and part of the thematic inspiration of the album is  from the french literate Georges Bataille. Like Bataille, Arabrot  is fascinated by the joy and energy of unifying the high and the  low, the filth and the pure, the animalistic and the divine in  man. In songwriter, vocalist and guitarist Kjetil Nernes' own  words: "Gold indicates the sun as we hail Bataille's take on the subject  of abjection. Solar Anus betokened the Golden Calf - juxtaposed  between utmost evil and greater sanctity. Such as the eternal  radiance of heaven or the egregious iniquities of the abyss. Or the alchemist of The Holy Mountain converting faeces into gold." Solar Anus's eight tracks is Arabrot playing their purest,  wildest, ugliest rocknroll. Even the tiniest ears in mother  earth's soil will open like flowers to the sun. Solar Anus is the first album of the new Arabrot and the fiftieth release on Fysisk Format. Recorded and mixed by Steve Albini in Electrical Audio Studio A, Chicago, Il, March & May 2011. European tour October 2011.

Tracklisting:

1. Solaranus
2. And the ass had spoken
3. Madonna was a whore
4. Valkyrie
5. Nubile
6. Auto Da Fe
7. Odine
8. The wheel is coming full circle

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