Rings - Black Habit (Paw Tracks)

Looks like the U.S. release date is Jan 15.

"Rings is Nina Mehta (guitar/keys), Abby Portner (drums), and Kate Rosko (guitar/keys), a New York-based fem-folk trio which congealed in June 2006. Using each other's apartments as venues for their music, the group recently upgraded to a practice space in Brooklyn where they could pen the songs for Black Habit. Former Múm vocalist Kria Brekkan produced the eight-song full-length LP, which drops via the Paw Tracks label Jan. 15." -Spin.com

Not much excitement for this one huh.

this sounds like the worst thing

Heh heh, maybe! I'm curious to hear it nonetheless.

here is an excerpt from my amateur review at rate your music:

Coming off slightly cultish, the vocals are ear-splitting, and the overall feel can best be described as some kind of ritualistic song selection a cult would undertake before sacrificing a goat. There are a lot of drums, some random chanting, and really, that's about it. I imagine only the band knows what they're truly trying to do here.

duh it's on paw tracks

the circular pathwork crap makes it sound interesting... i'm off the boat at ear-splitting vocals...

"duh it's on pah tracks" = what exactly

simon reynolds review
http://www.villagevoice.com/music/0803,reynolds,78857,22.html

I wanted to like this more than I do - and there are moments when the interesting rhythms do seem to take over and they're on the verge of becoming the nu-folk ESG (I guess Reynolds is probably closer with the Raincoats reference but I've never tracked down Odyshape) - but a lot of it just sounded formless and undercooked to my ears, like they tried to record a homage to Sung Tongs in a day. I guess if they went more professional though they'd be treading too close to CocoRosie's territory.

I really like the sound of this. I'm such a loser it took paw tracks in the thread title to make me click

Not much excitement for this one huh.

-- Fastnbulbous, Monday, 14 January 2008 19:04 (2 months ago) Link

sounds great to me ->>> "circular patchworked tranced feminist compositions."

reminds me of this pram review i came across by s. reynolds:

"Pram are siblings of the American lo-fi anti-grunge revolt (Thinking Fellers etc) but without the wisecracking absurdism and overly obvious Krautrock influences. Instead songs like “Radio Freak In A Storm” (a clucking, wheezing sonic contraption, all hazy harmonium and squawking trumpet) make Pram the only band I’ve ever heard who appear to be influenced by The Raincoats’ neglected mistresspiece Odyshape. The Raincoats compositional method was closer to knitting than jamming; Pram share that homespun approach."

how dare he dis the TFUL282!

I would probably like this band OK but never listen to them for reals.

i lurv this album. found it a promo of it at a record store in the livingston mall for $5.

hoorayz

there's a record store in the Livingston Mall? I thought the last ones closed while I was still in High School.

if we're both talking about the livingston mall in jersey, then yes there is. i don't remember the name of it, but it's near macy's entrance across from the ebgames. their new stuff is a bit overpriced, but they have a nice sized bin full of promo's. i found xbxrx's "wars" in there for $3. and the new MIA ep for $4. good stuff.

Thats insane. I'm from West Orange. I used to go to Alwick's in the mall, the front half sold giant boomboxes and the back half was all vinyl, then CDs, then it was gone. There was also a big Sam Goody where I bought Renegade Soundwave and 808 State 12"s and later a Wall to Wall or something but by that point there wasn't any vinyl anywhere. I spent most of my time stealing comic books from Heroes World and playing Star Wars, Gauntlet and Altered Beast at Time Out. Later on I spent most my time sitting at a payphone making free red-box calls to girls I knew in Boston.

And Macy's was still Bambergers when I started going to The Livingston Mall. I remember when they first set up an Apple Lisa in the electronics department.

i would watch a dan selzer biopic

It would have to be an HBO mini-series. Totally epic. Or like the Wire, 5 full seasons.

get Mark Ruffalo to star?

I'd be honored. I can think of less flattering choices.

"Free red-box calls to girls"??? Details, please! (the catch is finding an actual payphone at this point, right? But still, *if* I could find one..?!) If there's any residual innerest in the original topic, here's a couple of Paper Thin Walls links: can still listen to "Mom Dance and rad about the album here:
http://www.paperthinwalls.com/singlefile/item?id=1208
and Rings, as Guest Editors, present their own picks to click:
http://www.paperthinwalls.com/singlefile/day?day=2008-02-22

there are payphones everywhere. if i still had a red box, i could use it on the subways to call work when the trains are running late!

fwiw i have not heard this first nation/rings band, but the impression i go from the 77 boadrum thread was that they sucked the fat one.

i would watch a selzer hbo miniseries. on netflix.

i think that's why they changed their name.

FWIW, I don't think red boxes work anymore, payphones have better technologies or something. But I really rocked the red box! First I made the standard modified Radio Shack dialer red box. Then I recorded the sound onto a credit-card sized "digital voice recorder" and would carry it around in my wallet. I also at one point recorded it onto one of those greeting cards that triggers when you open it, then put the innards in a tic-tac box.

Anyway, sorry for the de-rail. People should buy everything on Paw Tracks.

one of the girls in this band got mad at me once for saying the only reason girls liked horses so much was because they wanted to feel close to something strong and masculine. i might have been more crass about it, though.

xp
i wonder if dan selzer was a PHONE LOSER OF AMERICA.

yeah cos it isn't a vanity label for friends and sisters at ALL xpost

i like the excepter record on paw tracks.
honest, i'm not just sucking up to ILX rock stars.

paw tracks discography:
roomates band
sister's band
side project
side project
wife's band
ex3pt3r

am i forgetting anyone?

how awesome is it that pawtracks.com is a site for nature photography?

(i like asscepter too no offense ascetprs)

ariel pink
peppermints
first nation was on the label before the sister joined.

tickley feather

ariel pink is to excepter as rancid sloppy joes are to cruel, ruel foie gras.

cruel x2 obv.

not sure what gave anyone the impression it wasnt a vanity label though

aren't all small labels essentially vanity labels?

i definitely have a fusetron record with chr1s fr33m4n on it.

and epitaph was started to release bad religions records, right?!

Chr1S fr33man has "released" some Vanity Records, if you know what I'm sayin'. Sympathy Nervous, TIP!

man, i don't even know how to parse that one.

bootleg, bootleg, bootleg haul

I never heard of Phone Losers of America. Wikipedia says PLA didn't exist until 1994. I did my phone phreaking mostly around 1991/1992.

bootleg hall?

genesis "hall" p-orridge

gretchen franklin, nosey matron type thing

this album = major happiness

Yeah it still sounds good. Forgive them their family tree.