Fangs (album)
| Fangs! | ||||
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| Studio album by Falling Up | ||||
| Released | March 24, 2009 | |||
| Recorded | 2008 | |||
| Genre | Art rock, experimental rock | |||
| Length | 46:52 | |||
| Label | BEC | |||
| Producer | Casey Crescenzo | |||
| Falling Up chronology | ||||
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| Professional ratings | |
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| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| Alternative Addiction |   [1] |
| Jesus Freak Hideout | [2] |
Fangs! is the fourth studio album from experimental rock band Falling Up. It was released on March 24, 2009 through BEC Recordings.
Background
Falling Up announced Fangs in August 2008, recorded from September through November, and completed the album around late 2008. The material for the album was written during early and mid-2008. Album updates were announced via the band's MySpace blogs and official YouTube channel[3] randomly during 2008.
On January 23, the band's official MySpace profile was changed to reflect the new album's artwork and style. The band added a new song, entitled "Streams of Woe at Acheron", to their Myspace profile on January 22 and announced the album pre-order on January 27. There are three pre-order choices, each consisting of the physical album and either band signatures or a t-shirt and plastic "fangs".
On March 4, Jesus Freak Hideout posted an album "PReview", which consisted of 20-second clips of every main track and a review, including track lengths.[2]
On March 6, Falling Up posted a new song from the album, called "Goddess of the Dayspring, Am I", on their Myspace page. The track lengths for the version posted on Falling Up's Myspace and the one reported by Jesus Freak Hideout are, for no known reason, different.
On March 13, Amazon posted Fangs for pre-order via MP3 download, which included extended 30-second previews of each song. This posting confirms that "Goddess of the Dayspring, Am I" has a song length of 4:31.
On March 21 the album was leaked to the internet via p2p downloading networks.
Story
Fangs is a fantasy/science fiction story. The premise of Fangs[2] is, once, in a land similar to ours, the people discovered that their children wore poisoned cloth, destined to kill them. So, the people tied all the threads together, attached them to a thousand golden arrows, and launched these arrows towards the faraway planet Neptuenn. Then, thousands of years later, the people of the city were horrified to awake one day and find all of their children had been struck by giant arrows. One thing lead to another, and a traveler was sent to Neptuenn to find out who was responsible for this tragedy. The twelve tracks on Fangs presume to tell the story of this traveler and what he discovers about Neptuenn and his own planet.
Attempting to discern the actual plot from Jessy Ribordy's abstract poeticism is made even more difficult by introduction of new vocabulary. For example, a "green lift," mentioned in "Streams of Woe At Acheron," is "a way of abstracting poison from the skin."[2]
The track "Goddess of the Dayspring, Am I" is the main character's lament over the loss of The Queen of Neptuenn, whom he falls in love with. He gets entangled in a scandal because, while The King is mongering over war, his Queen falls in love with our main character. Because of his political involvement with Neptuenn, things get complicated and the result is the eventual death of the Queen (essentially "by accident", although there are reasons to believe she was murdered"). So the song is his lament at her death, "flowers in your hair" is what he is looking at as her body lies in the casket, and is also a reference to Ophelia's said-to-be suicide in Shakespeare's "Hamlet," in which she drowns in the river surrounded by flowers.
Track listing
The album contains twelve songs and five transitional tracks that are not numbered.[4] The transitional tracks are part of the songs they're listed before or after, more as introductions or lead-outs than anything. "Panic and Geo-Primaries" contains the chorus and main theme from "Arch to Achtilles" on the band's earlier album, Captiva.
- "Blooming from the Corner"
- "A Colour Eoptian" – 3:48
- "Lotus and the Languorous" – 4:43
- "Streams of Woe at Acheron" – 4:20
- "Magician Reversed" – 5:07
- "The Discoveratory"
- "Golden Arrows" – 4:07
- "The King's Garden" – 2:34
- "Panic and Geo-Primaries" – 3:56
- "The Moonn and Sixpence" – 3:33
- "Our Lady Satuernn's Reef"
- "Goddess of the Dayspring, Am I" – 4:31
- "The Sidewinder Flux" – 4:36
- "Gears Under the Water"
- "The Chilling Alpine Adventure" – 3:39
- "Swimming Towards Propellers" – 2:04
- "The Signal From Forum A"
Personnel
- Jessy Ribordy – guitar, vocals, keyboards/synthesizers, songwriter, lyrics
- Jeremy Miller – bass
- Josh Shroy – drums, percussion/loops
- Casey Crescenzo – additional guitar and vocals, songwriter except on tracks 6 and 12, producer, engineer, mixer
- Troy Glessner – mastering at Spectre Studio
References
- ↑ Alternative Addiction review Archived December 12, 2009, at the Wayback Machine.
- 1 2 3 4 "Falling Up, "Fangs" Review". Retrieved 12 April 2016.
- ↑ FANGS. Retrieved 12 April 2016 – via YouTube.
- ↑ BEC Recordings. "BEC Recordings - Falling Up - Fangs". BEC Recordings. Retrieved 12 April 2016.