"you painted the panorama with no resolution"
Radical Dads' track Institution from their fourth full-length album entitled "Paved Mountain" feels a bit like a free form avant garde post punk meet art rock jam and bleeding session. I love the sort of three part separateness I feel as if all concerned are deeply wailing away fully adsorbed in their own angst and story while being together too. That is not to say that Institution is not about anything, it is quite the opposite. Lindsay Baker (vox / guitar) says:
"Institution is pretty much the book report that nobody asked me to write about 'Night Studio: A Memoir of Philip Guston' by Musa Mayer. It is one of my favorite artist biographies ever. Philip Guston is so beloved and influential nowadays. It’s hard to remember sometimes that he wasn’t always an art world darling, and his life was pretty rough from the start. It adds a whole other human perspective/dimension that it was written by his daughter."
The amazing Official Video of Institution was created by the band's own Robbie Guertin (drums / vox) as he explains:
"This video started after I had been doing a bunch of small colored pencil animations, and I wanted to try to collect a them together into a longer video. Immediately though I messed up by picking one of the longest songs on the album, and then deciding to make it into some sort of a connected story - that made it much harder! Ideas for different scenes were inspired by lyrics, but usually just grabbing onto a word or a phrase, and then taking it in my own direction, rather than thinking about Lindsay's original meanings. The video ended up taking more than a year to finish, and I am excited to finally share the results."
Paved Mountain features art by Anna Haifisch. Radical Dads are Lindsay Baker (vox / guitar), Chris Diken (guitar) and Robbie Guertin (drums / vox).
-Robb Donker Curtius
THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM - PRESS NOTES:
When you arrive huffing and puffing at the top of Paved Mountain, you look around and realize you’re no higher than when you first set off. The view would be terrible if it weren’t for the beautiful unbroken expanse of shining nothing that stretches out around you in all directions.
Paved Mountain is the fourth full-length album by Radical Dads. It has eight songs and features art by Anna Haifisch.
The people in our band are named Lindsay Baker, Chris Diken, and Robbie Guertin. We met in college and became friends because we all liked particular cultural things and we all wanted to rebel against particular institutional things. We played music together and listened to bands such as Built To Spill, Modest Mouse, Sleater-Kinney, Pixies, the Lilys, Pavement, The Clean, and Yo La Tengo. Then we moved apart and did separate stuff for a while. Robbie played in the band Clap Your Hands Say Yeah at this time — great job, Robbie! In 2007, because of a variety of factors, everyone was living in New York City. At that point we were overtaken by flashbacks to the golden olden days, and we started playing music together again. We made it an official band and an homage to our actual dads. The band is somehow still going, despite the fact that we live 5,399 miles apart.
-Robb Donker Curtius
THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM - PRESS NOTES:
When you arrive huffing and puffing at the top of Paved Mountain, you look around and realize you’re no higher than when you first set off. The view would be terrible if it weren’t for the beautiful unbroken expanse of shining nothing that stretches out around you in all directions.
Paved Mountain is the fourth full-length album by Radical Dads. It has eight songs and features art by Anna Haifisch.
The people in our band are named Lindsay Baker, Chris Diken, and Robbie Guertin. We met in college and became friends because we all liked particular cultural things and we all wanted to rebel against particular institutional things. We played music together and listened to bands such as Built To Spill, Modest Mouse, Sleater-Kinney, Pixies, the Lilys, Pavement, The Clean, and Yo La Tengo. Then we moved apart and did separate stuff for a while. Robbie played in the band Clap Your Hands Say Yeah at this time — great job, Robbie! In 2007, because of a variety of factors, everyone was living in New York City. At that point we were overtaken by flashbacks to the golden olden days, and we started playing music together again. We made it an official band and an homage to our actual dads. The band is somehow still going, despite the fact that we live 5,399 miles apart.
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