New Mission of Burma Album - The Sound The Speed The Light, new 7 inch, new song up on Matador's site....Let's get it poppin.

http://www.matadorrecords.com/mission_of_burma/index.html

1,2,3 Partyy! is the song that up on the site...sound fucking dope as hell, real galloping, almost 60s feeling Clint song, so def the more melodic side but yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeehaw i'm excited!

On October 6, Matador will be releasing Mission Of Burma’s fourth studio LP, The Sound The Speed The Light. Recorded in Boston with Bob Weston at the controls, the record is a departure from the pinned-needles roar of 2006’s The Obliterati. The new album sounds far more spacious and dynamic. It is more or less divided into 4 sets or suites of 3 songs. Each suite explores a set of moods or colors, across the usual dizzying array of lyrical topics, from alcoholism to fleshly concerns. The anthemic, catchy opener, our first MP3, is a classic Burma rocker on a level with “This Is Not A Photograph” or “That’s How I Escaped My Certain Fate.” Other tracks, such as “Feed,” “Forget Yourself,” and “Slow Faucet,” the latter a live favorite for some time, are slow, hypnotic builders. “Good Cheer” is a burst of almost uncontainable joy and fun that literally explodes from the speakers.

Of course, all the Burma trademarks are also present: the military snare drum, the melodic basslines high up on the neck, and the furiously experimental guitarwork, refracted and changed back into the songs via tape loops – all punctuated by the hoarse shouts of drummer Peter Prescott. This controlled chaos, this disciplined letting go, is the heart of what they do and it remains as exhilarating and fulfilling as ever.

6 weeks before the album, on August 18, we will be releasing a pre-album 7″ containing two non-LP tracks: “Innermost” and “Here It Comes.”

so excited

nice!!! def. get the 60s feeling on that new song. will be curious to hear it on good speakers.

i think it sounds better soundwise...like more space in the recording and not a little more lively sound

So excited! I thought they might be dead.

I'm into "1,2,3, Partyy!" and I fully support the continued existence of Mission of Burma, but I wish Clint would take a couple weeks and record another Consonant album.

"1,2, 3,"'s ok but nothing great. Alright, maybe I need to listen to it more (sez this old guy fan of the early stuff who saw them multiple times back then)

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loved the first consonant album almost as much as the old burmas, but i wasn't really digging the second that much, should listen again

Yeah, I won't rep for the second one that hard. But the Clint songs since the MoB reunion have been good enough to justify a third.

Getting excited about this album. Listening to the two Consonant albums and I concur - the first is really solid if a bit samey whereas it seems like the second is rushed and just lacks the tunes.

Man, I hate to say it because I've loved everything since the reformation hardcore, but this is pretty disappointing. Some of the lyrics are just awful, awful.

Have you given it a few listens? It's not as immediate as some of their other material but over time it's revealing its charms. Some nifty tape loops here and there. It flows a bit like one long piece.

Gave this a couple listens but not really feelin' it.

Prindle weighs in:

Through a combination of lackluster songwriting, weak singing, listless pacing, heavy-handed drumming and terrible mixing, Mission Of Burma has herein created a CD that is no fun at all to listen to.

Sounds about right. One of the year's disappointments -- their last two albums were excellent, as good as their '80s stuff. This I'm afraid is their weakest album yet released.

Yeah, I gave it a couple more shots over the weekend and it still isn't doing anything for me. Feels very lifeless, at least compared to the last two albums. Maybe some of these might work better live, but man, a really huge disappointment for me.

was this produced by bob weston?

i like weston as a dude but sometimes his recording stuff can be pretty grey sounding IMO

it was produced by bob as far as i know. i love what he did with some of the stuff on the last one. here it mostly seems like the songs just aren't as strong--by shocking coincidence, clint has far fewer songs on this one than roger or peter.