New York, NY. (Top40 Charts/ Sullivan Room) - Don't be surprised if Brighton based Evil Nine and their forthcoming album They Live! does for zombies what
Daft Punk did for robots. With stomping electro drums, '80s Italian horror-movie synths, dirty punk basslines, and a wanton disregard for genre rules, the infamously subversive dance/electronic duo create an unstoppable soundtrack for the new virtual zombie revolution. They Live and they're coming to Sullivan Room on Friday, January 30th, 2009.
The title track (and first single) They Live! pays irreverent homage to cult director John Carpenter's classic 1988 sci-fi ghoulfest They Live with its ultra-catchy vocoder chorus ("They walk, they lie, they love, they live!/They wake, they fall, they cry, they live!/They fight, they fail, they die, they live!"). "We love that film and the weird, crunchy, stripped-down analog-electronic scores John Carpenter creates," Beaufoy says. "I've had a massive fascination with zombie films since I was a teenager," Pardy adds, which probably explains why they also recruited cult artist Dan Mumford (known for his infamous sicko album art for Gallows and other punk/metal classics) to create the gory horror-show like album art for this particular album.
The album itself features a number of surprising collaborations, foremost is Def Jux's radical mastermind El-P, whose brutal spitting transforms the apocalyptic slammer "All The Cash."
"We hooked up with him after our DJ set at Coachella last year and really got along," Pardy says. "If there was one rapper we wanted to work with, it's El-P. And he was up for something different: I don't think he's much of a dance-music fan, but he's very open-minded musically." Elsewhere, Beans (of Anti-Pop Consortium) turns "Set It Off" into a Goth-meets-hip-house burner, while David, vocalist of Kitsune buzz band Autokratz, adds melodic New Wave melancholy to "The Wait." "I'm not sure what David's singing about," Beaufoy admits. "I think it's about getting laid after a gig and trying to slip away quietly to avoiding any awkwardness." Additionally Seraphim (from Brooklyn indie-electro seditionaries No Surrender) and Bristol scenester Emily Breeze also make crucial cameos. "To us, Emily's the female Danzig," Pardy explains. "It was great having her make ballsy punk-rock-chick noise over us pretending to be a rock band. We always like to push people to do something completely new."
Creating this army of like-minded iconoclasts is all part of Evil Nine's plan to confound expectations. To that end, They Live! features pounding tracks that will work in any club, but filtered through unexpected influences spanning '80s cock rock, The Cure, early Prince, krautrockers Cluster, Can and Tangerine Dream, vintage noise punkers Suicide and Black Flag, and newer sonic saboteurs TV On The Radio and Queens of the Stone Age. As such, "Behemoth" welds Timbaland rhythms to Black Sabbath heaviness; "Feed On You" comes out somewhere between Beverly Hills Cop and a phantom death march; "Dead Man Coming" loops soundtrack composer/Goblin member Fabio Frizzi's theme from Zombie Flesh Eaters with ragga rudeness courtesy Toastie Taylor of U.K. rap crew New Flesh; "The Wait," meanwhile, incorporates the experiments of Paul Lansky, the early synth pioneer whom Radiohead sampled on "Idioteque." "He's a mad Princeton professor who experiments with strange noises," Beaufoy explains. "We're obsessed," Pardy says. "We can usually find something positive and inspiring about most of the music out there, we then fuck it up and twist it into our own thing." Equally individual will be Evil Nine's kinetic new live show: it features Pardy and Beaufoy singing and playing dueling bass guitars, synthesizers, samples onstage, an actual human drummer, fittingly spooky visual phantasmagoria along with group's new full-length They Live!-a worthy successor to their 2005 album debut You Can Be Special Too, one of the most acclaimed electronic albums in recent memory.
They Live! is out February 24th on Marine Parade.
Evil Nine Tour Dates
Jan 29 - The Social, Toronto
Jan 30 - Sullivan Room, New York, NY
Jan 31 - Igloofest At Old Port Of Montreal, Montreal
Feb 05 - Hour Haus/135 W. North Ave, Baltimore, Md
Feb 06 - Pangea, Austin, Tx
Feb 07 - Ampersand, New Orleans, LA
Feb 08 - Club Sound, Salt Lake City, UT
Feb 09 - Hifi Club, Calgary
Feb 10 - Nectar Lounge, Seattle, WA
Feb 11 - Viper Room, Los Angeles, CA
Feb 12 - Republic, Vancouver
Feb 13 - Mighty, San Francisco, CA
Feb 14 - The Hard Pop, Cd Juarez, Mexico
Friday, January 30th
Evil 9
with
Wavewhore
2 Damn Cheeky &
The American Dream Team
Tonight Sullivan Room welcomes Evil 9 for a night of stomping electro drums, '80s Italian horror-movie synths, dirty punk basslines, and an overall wanton disregard for genre rules! The infamously subversive dance/electronic duo is known for creating an unstoppable soundtrack for the new virtual zombie revolution, and does for them what Daft Punk did for robots. Also featuring the sounds of Wavewhore, 2 Damn Cheeky, and The American Dream Team.
Sullivan Room
218 Sullivan St.
(Bleecker & W. 3rd)
New York, NY
2 for 1 drinks until 11pm!
$10 Advance Tickets at: www.wantickets.com/sullivanroom
Guestlist: [email protected]
Tables: 212.252.2151
10pm - 4am | 21+
www.sullivanroom.com
www.myspace.com/evilnine
