ARTIST: Ice Palace
TITLE: Bright Leaf Left
LABEL: Speakerphone Records
URL: www.myspace.com/icepalaceband
RIP DATE: Feb-03-2007
STORE DATE: Jan-05-2007
GENRE: Indie
QUALITY: VBR / 44.1Hz / Joint-Stereo
TIME: 31:47 min
SIZE: 44,7 MB
Track Listing:
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01 - Bright Leaf Left 01:39
02 - Nuance And Spark 02:55
03 - The Before You're After 03:20
04 - The Same Seat 02:11
05 - Hubris 02:45
06 - Dead End Version 03:50
07 - New Land 02:13
08 - She Holds Hands 04:08
09 - Trampolining 02:50
10 - History Of Bad Men 02:45
11 - Twinkle In Your Blank Eye 03:11
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www.speakerphonerecords.com
Like its iconic and imposing namesake, the band Ice Palace was
born of the shivery north, where long winters are the ideal
setting for the solitary pursuit of songwriting. Ice Palace
frontman Adam Sorensen spends much of his time holed up in the
basement doing just that.
After the demise of a previous project in 2004, he gathered
guitarist Sam Needham, bassist/keyboardist Sarah Schneeberger and
drummer Dan Greenwood (Cloud Cult) to begin work on his latest
array of songs. By late 2005 they were at last prepared to emerge
from the basement and head to the studio.
Their debut album Bright Leaf Left is an assemblage of divergent
musical styles ranging from playful pop to edgy noise rock to
melancholy folk. With Johnny-Cash-meets-Lou-Reed vocals, Sorensen
bings these varied sounds with wry reflections on the passing of
time and changing perspective.
Recorded on the heels of Tapes 'N Tapes at Minneapolis' Shortman
Studio, Bright Leaf Left was engineered and produced by Darren
Jackson (Kid Dakota, The Hopefuls) and mastered by Alex Oana (Kid
Dakota, Vicious Vicious, The Hopefuls, White Light Riot).
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"We're not even a full week into 2007, and already a new local
band is issuing a CD worthy of a buzz. The group is called Ice
Palace, a quirky fuzz-rock quartet whose frontman, Adam Sorensen,
sings a bit like the guy from the Decemberists and writes blurry,
wild-eyed story-songs like the guy in Modest Mouse."
- Chris Riemenschneider, Star Tribune (www.startribune.com)
"The title of the second track on the disc, "Nuance and Spark,"
may as well be the chief ingredients in the group's musical
recipe. There aren't a lot of gimmicks...just solid songwriting
and straightforward and often beautiful indie rock."
- Steve McPherson, The Pulse (www.pulsetc.com)
"Ice Palace's Adam Sorensen has to be one of the brightest new
dark-night-of-the-soul singer-songwriters to come out of these
parts in a while. The band's debut, Bright Leaf Left...offers
further proof that when it comes to the big rock candy mountain,
minimalist beats, trippy words, quietly catchy melodies, and a
scabbed-over broken heart go a long way."
- Jim Walsh, City Pages (www.citypages.com)
"...Bright Leaf Left...is a beautifully melancholic and jittery
nod to Northern rock, from the Pacific Northwest to the shores of
Lake Superior."
- Molly Priesmeyer, The Current Music Blog (www.893thecurrent.org)