Ira
Pressing info:
CD comes in a super-heavy gatefold cardboard sleeve. The 10″ is housed in the same super-heavy sleeves – just the tasty XL-upgrade featuring heavy vinyl and a download code for your iPod pleasure. 100 copies in limited colored version and 300 copies on pure & plain black vinyl. Another 100 copies feature a different cover. Those will just be sold by the band on tour in October.
The first 100 orders will receive LIMITED EDITION COLORED VINYL !!! These will just be available through GOLDEN ANTENNA or at Ira shows in October!
Infotext:
Post-hardcore and Post-rock: what’s next?
On their debut album “The Body and the Soil” (2005) Ira made a point of steering clear of stereotypical musical dress codes.
Their sophomore release “Visions of a Landscape” (2009) then saw them discarding their wall-of-sound fetish. With more melodious arrangements and a remarkable vocal presence, the band pulled off a mesmerizing symbiosis of psychedelic space pop and heavy rock.
Their new effort “These Are the Arms“ now proves a flawless hat-trick. Dynamic and fragile, the music echoes the rumble and the noise infatuation of their musical ancestors. Think Neurosis playing Van Pelt songs on Prozac; or Monochrome covering A Perfect Circle. What once was unrelenting aggression now yields to more subtle melodicism.
Instead of resorting to yell them, the spoken word artist-turned-vocalist Tobias Hoffmann has the finesse to deliver his poetic lyrics without grandstanding, yet with a lot more emphasis.
Conclusion: On a superficial level you may label the songs on Ira’s third release as indie rock with a pop appeal – if surprisingly subtle and profound, moody and noisy. Or you can call them “hard pop.” But maybe you’d be best advised not to label them at all.
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Tourdates:
07.10 DE – Karlsruhe, Jubez w/Kodiak, Aun & N
08.10 DE – Stuttgart, Zwölfzehn
09.10 DE - Ravensburg, Balthes w/The Mount St. Helen Duet
10.10 DE – München, Kranhalle
11.10 DE – Kassel, Das Haus w/The Mount St. Helen Duet
12.10 DE – Berlin, Comet Club
13.10 DE – Hamburg, Linker Laden
14.10 DE – Erfurt-Engelsburg w/The Mount St. Helen Duet
15.10 DE – Konstanz, Kantine KN w/The Mount St. Helen Duet
RIYL: Mogwai vs. Blumfeld
Street Date: 30th September 2011
Videos
Video for “The Gift” taken from “These Are The Arms”