“Arguably the finest LP to come out of the Paisley Underground's salad days. With a nod to the Velvet Underground, Quicksilver Messenger Service and Dylan, packed into an incendiary slow-burn punk fuse, ‘The Days Of Wine And Roses’ is a glorious, upbeat sprawl, everything that rock ‘n’ roll should be. “The Days Of Wine And Roses’ is as timelessly potent as the records that inspired it.” UncutĬentral to the hugely influential Paisley Underground scene of the early 1980s that spawned Green On Red, The Bangles, Long Ryders and Rain Parade. This newly expanded 4 CD collection includes tracks from main protagonist Steve Wynn’s earlier combo 15 Minutes, the debut EP, astounding cover renditions (Johnny Cash, Janis Joplin, The Who), recordings of the band’s first ever rehearsal, along with several visceral live concerts from the pre-album era.Ĭelebrating the album’s 40th anniversary, this beautifully house bookback edition also includes 30 pages of liner notes by band historian Pat Thomas, new interviews with Kendra Smith, engineer Paul Cutler and producer Chris D, rare photos, gig posters, and more. In These Times.This release is by Fire America (North America only)ĥ4 songs from the original line-up, including 10 hard-to-find rarities and 31 never released recordings.Īn exceptional early ‘80s guitar-powered gem, remastered in full and includes a wealth of unreleased material. But where are they right now? They’re here. (of the Flesh Eaters / Divine Horsemen ), it was recorded in Los Angeles in September 1982 and released later that year on Chris D.'s Ruby Records, which was a division of Slash Records. The Dream Syndicate has a long and storied history. The Days of Wine and Roses is the second record and the debut full-length album by American alternative rock band The Dream Syndicate. The lyrics are just a mirror of the dread, panic, mania, speculation, melancholy and ultimately shrugging abandonment that just might follow. It seems like a lie to not address or reflect the things that we can’t stop thinking about-the whole world’s watching indeed. There is no avoiding the existential panic of a world that’s hurtling somewhere quickly, evolving, and shifting course by the hour. It is all we’re talking about, all we’re thinking about. This process contributed to the urgency of the album’s title. Co-produced by John Agnello (Phosphorescent, Waxahatchee, Hold Steady, Dinosaur Jr.), Wynn wrote all of the song’s lyrics in the studio after the band finished tracking, so that the words would be dictated by the sound rather than the other way around. The Dream Syndicate recorded 'These Times' once again at Montrose Studios in Richmond, Virginia. If 2017’s 'How Did I Find Myself Here' was a 10 pm record, all swagger and cathartic explosion, then 'These Times' is the 2 am sibling, moodier and more mercurial with the band acting as DJs of their own overnight radio station as the listener drifts off into dreams and wonders the next morning if any of it was real. You might not automatically put The Dream Syndicate and J-Dilla in the same sentence, but I hear that album when I hear our new one.” I was messing around with step sequencers, drum machines, loops-anything to take me out of my usual way of writing and try to feel as though I was working on a compilation rather than ‘more of the same’. “I loved the way that he approached record making as a DJ, a crate-digger, a music fan wanting to lay out all of his favorite music, twist and turn the results until he made them into his own. “When I was writing the songs for the new album I was pretty obsessed with Donuts by J-Dilla,” lead singer and songwriter Steve Wynn explained. Los Angeles’s The Dream Syndicate is thrilled to announce 'These Times,' their second album of new music since their 2012 reunion nearly thirty years after they first influenced California’s Paisely Underground scene. I fail to understand if you’re talking to me I will say that sometimes I revel in the code Hit the chains, all the things that remain The stakes are high if you run around with the crowd To birth the cool and make it all feel right
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