BISCUIT MEMORABILIA LP+MP3 / CD / DIGITAL Release Date: November 28Th, 2011 Distributed by CARROT TOP LTD
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LP: 8435015512927 CD: 8435015512835 8 435015 512927 BISCUIT MEMORABILIA LP+MP3 / CD / DIGITAL Release date: November 28th, 2011 Distributed by CARROT TOP LTD RECOMMENDED SONGS One. “The light that burns twice as bright, burns half as long.”, “The flame burns forever, until 2. I Was Right 5. Winnebago Man the end of adolescence”, “I hope I die before I get old”, “You ain’t got a fucking clue!”. The quotes 14. Plain Love Song from Blade Runner, Joyce Carol Oate’s novel Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang and the famous Who anthem are cancelled by Armand Cardona’s (guitar player in Biscuit) lash. He might have TRACK LIST 1. Gone spat it out a few days ago at a gig, backed by his The Sopranos “Bada Bing” T-shirt, or back in 2. I Was Right his pre-teen years, with his Spanish guitar at the ready, half Wayne Kramer, half Charlie Rivel, a 3. Set the Record Straight Saturday morning in his parents’ flat with the Downliners Sect music playing in the background. 4. Can’t Pity You 5. Winnebago Man Either way, as a reply he is bound to get a look –either approving, condescending or indicative 6. I’ll Be Late that a brotherly quarrel is about to begin– from his brother Xavi, who handles, high in his Cuban 7. Rainbow Haze heeled Chelsea boots, his electric guitar: before, now and forever. 8. Now I Know 9. The Rose Two. People are low on role models, but Biscuit are the head honchos of the Catalan garage 10. Doubtful Mind 11. Graham, Nick & Tim music as well as of the scene from their hometown, Vilanova i la Geltrú (Barcelona). As a common 12. Ivy’s Gone Beatnik friend says “they are that good because they have been practicing twice a week, every week 13. Stonewall 14. Plain Love Song for years”. In the early nineties, their home was sort of a Mecca of sixties punk, the cave where the philosopher’s stone of freakbeat was hidden, a garage rock liquor fountain of sorts where HIGHLIGHTS the younger friends of the third Cardona brother used to go with their cassette tapes to borrow • “Memorabilia” is Biscuit’s fifth LP. • The band traveled to USA to record at records by The Sonics or Love, the same way people would carry jugs around to fill them up with Chicago’s Engine Studios with Santi Garcia fresh water (or beer). Right in front of the door to the house of these Mediterranean version of the as producer. Davies brothers, a hint: a graffiti that read “Make love!” with a gigantic RAF/Mod target in its “O”. • La Castanya manages the band. Three. Thirty years have passed, but among the people who attend their gigs nowadays you ALBUM SPECIFICATIONS Artist: Biscuit can still see jaws dropping and mouths turning into that of an inflatable doll (O). Biscuit are Title: Memorabilia the real deal. They’ve got it: the Cardona brothers, together with the unforgiving Quiet Man on Label: La Castanya bass and a drummer who will suddenly grab a 12 string guitar and nail a hit by The Chemistry Reference: LC 10 Distributor: Carrot Top Set. They’re the perfect cross between a Bill Hicks monologue, a Tom and Jerry chase and a Countries: USA, Canada, Australia, Taiwan Pretty Things gig circa 1965. Digital distributor: The Orchard Format: LP+MP3 / CD / Digital Four. If 60’s rooted rock’n’roll was a subject in a university curriculum, Memorabilia would be Genre: Rock / Power Pop Release date: November 28th, 2011 essential reading material and the guys in Biscuit would be professors with goatees. But, most LP UPC Code: 8435015512927 probably, they would open a beer can halfway through a lecture (“It’s beer o’clock!”), someone LP Suggested list price: 19.98$ USD would say “You ain’t got a fucking clue!” and there would be a great laughter, a great distortion CD UPC Code: 8435015512835 CD Suggested list price: 13.98$ USD and at least 30 songs with a voice –Xavi’s– that sounds louder and more black all the time. Among those songs, we would find the interludes from Who’s Next in “Gone”, the opener, or the CREDITS psychedelic handclaps à la “SF Sorrow is Born” by the Pretty Things in “Can’t Pity You”. Or the Drums and vocals: Fermín Bass: Angel poppier melodies (if there are such things as nuggets and pebbles, we could call those songs Guitars and vocals: Xavi biscuits) of tracks like “I’ll Be Late”, “I Was Right” or “Winnebago Man”, the first single. Guitars: Armand Keyboards, vocals and percussion: Santi Garcia And Five. Biscuit packed their bags and went to Chicago to record Memorabilia. They had been Assistant Supremo and Live Sound: Gerard “Señor Fuego” Tomàs listening to the Damned, the Undertones, Rockpile and Dr. Feelgood, as well as Superchunk, Hammond and Piano: John Katke Sugar and Buffalo Tom. They wanted their new record to be more straightforward than its Percussion: Heitor G. Garcia predecessor, Cinnamon Fadeout. At Engine Studios, where they wore down the grooves of a few Spoken Word: Mike Miller Australian rock records by The Monarchs or You Am I, the neighbours banged the ceiling with All songs written by Biscuit their broomsticks complaining about the volume, they coaxed a Brazilian cab driver to let himself and arranged by Biscuit and Santi Garcia Recorded by Santi Garcia go on several percussion instruments on “Rainbow Haze”, got Mike Miller (big boss at Delilah’s, at Engine Music Studios, Chicago, Il. the best rock’n’roll watering hole in the Windy City) involved by doing a spoken word, acquired Mixed by Santi Garcia at Ultramarinos Costa a taste for mescal and sent sound waves roaring up and down a street where, coincidentally, Brava Studios, Sant Feliu de Guixols, Girona. the record shop where High Fidelity was filmed still resists (“Did I listen to pop music because Mastered by Víctor Garcia at Ultramarinos Mastering I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I listened to pop music?”, “You ain’t got a fucking Produced by Santi Garcia clue!”). They came back with a lesson on psychedelia, garage rock, indie rock and 77-styled Neil Strauch - Assistant Engineer punk rock that will leave you speechless, trouble-less and ear-less. And they are going to play it Mike Novak - Assistant Engineer live. Because no-one does it like they do. Because they are going to tour around and around like Artwork: Joan Guàrdia Juanita the Carp, a star in their hometown, the only fish in the world that drinks from a little bottle DISTRIBUTOR CONTACT and is immortal and never tires from turning around and around. Respect for the chiefs. Always. Carrot Top • [email protected] www.ctdltd.com Miqui Otero LABEL / MANAGEMENT CONTACT La Castanya • [email protected] www.lacastanya.com.