Telephone Explosion
ANDRE ETHIER - Croak In The Weeds LP
$45.95
Highly recommended.
Croak In The Weeds, the second installment in a planned trilogy from ex-DEADLY SNAKES frontman ANDRE EITHIER, will be released in fall 2019 on Telephone Explosion Records. The nine-song album was created in collaboration with SANDRO PERRI (producer) at his Toronto studio in late 2018 / early 2019. Croak In The Weeds continues Ethier and Perri’s musical relationship which was originally established on 2017’s Under Grape Leaves. Croak expands upon that album, deconstructing synthetic elements to a point of raw organic beauty. Lyrically, André’s approach has shifted to the natural world, focusing heavily on flora and fauna. Almost every track on the 34-minute album references animals, with central characters ranging from pigs to dragons. This is André’s third attempt at a trilogy of records. Previous attempts have stalled for various reasons; disillusionment with genre, unrealistic sense of self, arachnophobia... Though it would not be inaccurate to suggest that he now has completed a trilogy of unfinished trilogies (he would thank you for your optimistic reasoning,) and is still planning to finish this one. Regarding trilogies, André opines: “In the first you establish the tools and build yourself a room, in the sequel you live in the room and imagine what’s outside, finally in the third.... you escape?” He doesn’t know, he has never gone all the way…
Croak In The Weeds, the second installment in a planned trilogy from ex-DEADLY SNAKES frontman ANDRE EITHIER, will be released in fall 2019 on Telephone Explosion Records. The nine-song album was created in collaboration with SANDRO PERRI (producer) at his Toronto studio in late 2018 / early 2019. Croak In The Weeds continues Ethier and Perri’s musical relationship which was originally established on 2017’s Under Grape Leaves. Croak expands upon that album, deconstructing synthetic elements to a point of raw organic beauty. Lyrically, André’s approach has shifted to the natural world, focusing heavily on flora and fauna. Almost every track on the 34-minute album references animals, with central characters ranging from pigs to dragons. This is André’s third attempt at a trilogy of records. Previous attempts have stalled for various reasons; disillusionment with genre, unrealistic sense of self, arachnophobia... Though it would not be inaccurate to suggest that he now has completed a trilogy of unfinished trilogies (he would thank you for your optimistic reasoning,) and is still planning to finish this one. Regarding trilogies, André opines: “In the first you establish the tools and build yourself a room, in the sequel you live in the room and imagine what’s outside, finally in the third.... you escape?” He doesn’t know, he has never gone all the way…