Seattle Subsonic

MSHVB Readying For The New Year

January 9th, 2009

The eccentric and explosive prog-pop Seattle outfit, Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band, who cannonballed themselves into the community pool this past year with a series of hilarious “instructional” videos, has a few more details for their upcoming self-titled debut LP.

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Currently, the band simply has the 5-song Weepy EP (lovingly packaged in hand made pocket felt cases), but we can expect a full length album March 10th after recently signing to the Dead Oceans label (home to such bands as Bowerbirds and Evangelicals). The record was produced by the esteemed Scott Colburn, a local dude who’s worked with Feral Children (Second to the Last Frontier), KEXP, Mudhoney (Since We’ve Become Translucent), Arcade Fire (Neon Bible), and Animal Collective (Feels, Strawberry Jam) in the past. He also manned the boards for the aforementioned EP. Based on that, I’d say the chances of this album being BAD-ASS are fat to some (you know, as opposed to ’slim to none’).

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And to this I say yippee. Update: the album version of “Anchors Dropped” (via Pitchfork):

[audio:http://www.seattlesubsonic.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/anchorsdropped.mp3]

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Read about the time they wore matching outfits at Neumos here. Tracklist after the jump.

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01 Who’s Asking
02 Masquerade
03 Cheer for Fate
04 Anchors Dropped
05 Going on a Hunt
06 A Year or Two
07 Albatross Albatross Albatross
08 Dull Reason
09 Little Red Shoes
10 En Fuego
11 On the Collar