Is The Idea Of Us, by New Fries

Is The Idea Of Us

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	1.	Bangs 03:40
	2.	Genre 00:28
	3.	Lily 06:12
	4.	Mt. Tambora 02:52
	5.	Genre 01:01
	6.	Genre 00:44
	7.	Ploce 02:24
	8.	Genre 00:21
	9.	Genre 01:45
	10.	L'Express 02:21
	11.	Genre 00:58
	12.	Genre 01:14
	13.	Arendt / Adler / Pulley Pulley Pulley Pulley Pulley 04:49

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Out August 7th, 2020.

Digital and physical preorders being released in early July.

New Fries has never been interested in being a band. What we mean is a spirit of abandoning ideas of what songs should be, how they should be performed, and by whom. We’ve never been interested in the tradition of songwriting—though we’re interested in musical elements like repetition, space, and dynamics. We have wanted our music to make people dance but have also wanted to produce the feeling of that being taken away from a room. We often work around these sorts of energy transfers (whether or not we name them this way). This space to make music in has felt wild and free. We have also contradicted ourselves. We are also always changing. In 2018 Ryan Carley (synthesizer) left the band and we found ourselves at our first juncture to restructure and re-evaluate New Fries. This is such a classic boring story, we know. But immediately we knew that as a three piece (the band’s original formation) we had to turn to something new and open—the way some describe “beginners mind”. Anni grabbed bass (which was new to her), Tim grabbed guitar and a sampler as a new juggling routine, and Jenny reduced her drum kit to three pieces. We wanted to create a structure that allowed us to be curious about being in transition.

Much of this record sounds and reflects on this in-between. It’s anxious in its repetitions and unsure of genre. It rejects a singular character or emotion and attempts to instead act as a container for many. Anni’s lyrics state this directly: “it lacks a mood, it lacks definition” / “curiosity beyond expectation”. Her lyrics describe the spaces, objects, people, and situations that embody an in-between—her grandfather who worked as medium, the ecology of the foreshore, Mount Tambora’s eruption in 1816 that produced the Year Without a Summer, and mesh (the fabric). The result is a collage of 6 songs and many otherwise quick ideas.

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released August 7, 2020

Recording: Carl Didur
Mixing: Carl Didur & New Fries
Mastering: Matt Smif

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New Fries Toronto, Ontario

New Fries is John Nada, Jammy Gibbons, Anr Stefania Spadafora and Chuj

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IS THE IDEA OF US

Aug 2020
Is The Idea Of Us

Aug 2020
MORE

Nov 2016
More

Nov 2016
Fresh Face Forward

Sep 2014
Split 7" w/ Old & Weird

Aug 2015
They, I

Nov 2013

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