Guitar Module 2017, by Upper Wilds

Guitar Module 2017

by Upper Wilds

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Jupiter_Strain This record is a triumph. Let's Build a Moon sounds like the moon is crashing into the Earth. Favorite track: Let's Build A Moon.

Grungey Alt-Rock Like HUSKER DU with Kurt Cobain on rhythm guitar? Noise pop. Wall-of-noise rock. Addictive, anthemic noise. Favorite track: Let's Build A Moon.

Dag Blahlia Powerful, inspiring, chaotic rock music captured in one of the best albums of 2017. Favorite track: Roy Sullivan.

eldudowski Heroic, euphoric, fuzzed-out and pounding, makes me feel like I could punch the sun. Favorite track: Let's Build A Moon.

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	1.	Reentry Breakup Recorder 01:08
	2.	UFO 03:52
	3.	Roy Sullivan 03:43
	4.	Vampire Crane 04:38
	5.	Let's Build A Moon 03:01
	6.	Chainsaw 02:34
	7.	Black Holes 04:42
	8.	Emma Dean Crater 01:24

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Upper Wilds is the new band of Brooklyn-based musician Dan Friel (Parts & Labor). The limited LP Guitar Module 2017 was recorded with Friel playing all the guitar and keys and for the first time since Parts & Labor, singing. Recorded by Seth Manchester, Guitar Module 2017 was performed by Friel himself using an open tuned Hagstrom guitar, an Akai MPC500 sequencer, his trusty Yamaha Portasound keyboard, and an array of pedals. The album’s distorted keys and drum programming are driven by its visceral guitar lines; together, the instruments are the molten bedrock for Friel’s soaring vocals. The resulting songs are anthems for catharsis and escape. References to space appear throughout, from found sound samples of satellites falling from orbit on “Reentry Breakup Recorder” to their breakup into the sea and the end of the track. The darkness of “UFO” describing the oceanic pole of inaccessibility (the farthest point from land, site of the international spacecraft cemetery where discarded satellites and space stations get dropped into the ocean) is contrasted by “Black Holes,” a wry flip of the “we are all made of stars” Moby/Carl Sagan thing. In it, Friel urges us to resist seeing the worst in everything. “Let’s Build A Moon” riffs a Swell Maps song title and turns dark urban realities, let’s plan an escape route, into good fun. Upper Wilds cleverly turns expectation on its head, finding humor in apocalyptic scenarios or in the bubble dweller delusions (“Chainsaw”). Clever reference points, distortion and tension, and an utter allegiance to the pop song create a singular world covered in craggy space debris and ultraviolet melodies.

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released September 22, 2017

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Upper Wilds Brooklyn, New York

Dan Friel (Parts & Labor, etc) - Guitar/Vox, Jason Binnick - Bass/Vox, Jeff Ottenbacher - Drums.

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Aug 09

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Indianapolis, IN

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