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All We Seabees have slowed things down a bit. That may be a matter of necessity—singer and main songwriter Bryan Fox recently relocated, at least temporarily, to Knoxville—but with their new album MKultra, it has also come as a welcome choice. "Our last two albums were done in a spastic manner," Fox says. "Both took no more than three days to record and both were done in homes that we lived in. This was the first time we had equipment outside of our own grasp and a studio to fiddle with it. New keys, new pedals and sounds.... I know this record represents that."
Recorded by Umbrella Tree's Zachary Gresham and released on that band's label, Cephalopod, MKultra finds the Seabees fleshing out their sound while revisiting some of the lyrical themes familiar to fans of the band's other work: geographic dislocation, loss, deception, friendship. Opening the album, the band compresses a life's worth of influences into a little over four minutes and arranges them like photos on a timeline. Opening with an a cappella chant that recalls the spirituals of a bygone and unrecorded era—and hovers achingly close to the melody of "Amazing Grace"—"Tigers" leans into a banjo-led shuffle, then strides slowly but strongly toward an electrifying finish filled with churning crash cymbals and overdriven guitars. It's a song that favorably recalls the folk-fuzz of Neutral Milk Hotel while retaining the Seabees' unusual, characteristic lilt.
Though the band already proved their skill at pleasingly lush, almost rustic numbers on the interstitial EP Lady Alaska (and again on MKultra with more subdued songs like "Hartsy Fartsy" and "Needle"), they are at their best when the pace is quicker and the songs become tense and foreboding. On "Alt Country," Fox's melody is relentless and accusatory, and he sings like he's digging by hand through his own song to find some kernel of truth to hoist out of it: "Everyone's returning back to the South / Though they don't really mean it, it carries no clout... / But you're returning, are you returning or are you just walking?" As someone who, in his own words, "fled Detroit" three years ago for Tennessee, Fox might not even know the answer himself. But he leads his battalion of Seabees through a thoughtful and beguiling album, one with many questions worth asking. Steve Haruch, NASHVILLE SCENE


With a fresh blend of venom and apathy, indie-folk/rock crew All We Seabees' three-chord battle charge, "Alt Country," knocks the wind out of those who romanticize new surroundings, be it Music City or Williamsburg.
"Everyone's returning back to the South/ Though they don't really mean it/ It carries no clout," principal Seabee Bryan Fox intones.
Fox has the right and the nerve to pore through this subject. He's a transplant himself, having moved his band to Nashville from Detroit in 2006. But MKultra, the band's second 2008 release, makes it clear they didn't head south to grow some fake roots.
Several songs, such as the wide-open "Bankers on Coke," have a decidedly wintry, Northern air, with twiddling passages and placid, composed melodies that recall the easiest-to-swallow bits of Jim O'Rourke.
Energetic peaks, such as "Alt Country" and "Howard," find Fox snapping into the Colin Meloy/Jeff Magnum/Eef Barzelay school of reedy, concise delivery.
What the band has opted to take from its new town is its wealth of charitable talents. Zachary Gresham, front man for local art-rock trio Umbrella Tree, recorded the album in his own Scoliosis the Studio, and the disc is being released by UT's record label, Cephalopod. DAVE PAULSON

light the lanterns, burn the wicks, smell the salt.
We are done. We are completed. We are moving on.
Mkultra will be the name of our new LP coming out September 2nd on Cephalopod Records. It was recorded at Scoliosis the Studio in Kingston Springs and mastered at BattleTapes here in Nashville.

there will be an in-store performance at Grimey's on September 2nd.
there will be a release party at The Basement on September 6th.

thank you to all who were involved.
and after you buy it, i will also thank you.

Anne the Snake and Lady Alaska are both now available on iTunes, Amazon, eMusic, Rhapsody, etc.  Feel free to check us out! 

Also, we will be playing this Friday April 4th at Wall Street in Murfreesboro with Hammertorch and Cheyenne.  Hope to see you there!

Not only were we recently married to Cephalopod Records, but also:
John David Wynne made a beautiful film called Bent Back. It’s as good as we say it is. He was nice enough to afford us the opportunity to compose a couple songs to be placed in and around the film. Those are being mixed and mastered as we speak, and will be posted this weekend. Here is a link to the film site: www.bentbackmovie.com

the record will be available starting 02.22.08. our record release party is in Murfreesboro,TN. we'd love for everyone to attend. recorded in east nashville, mixed in murfreesboro. back and forth, back and forth. it's been a long time coming.

love, justin.

Lady Alaska 02.22.08

here's the tracks:

angela
painter
black girls
horse
apple peels
weepy willow hollow
rat
lady alaska

well, mr nate rau was nice enough to write down some inkwords about us and the upcoming next big nashville super killer wack extravaganze.  scrfeaming fuckin eagle man.  screaming fucking eagle.  so here it is, released in the murfreesboro pulse..  thanks nate!

pulse ink

we have finished recording.
we are going to try and trick someone into putting it out for us.
but i am pretty smart, so i think i'll be able to get away with it.
i am sure we ill post new tracks sometime in early july..

hello.
we have decided to record another album.
we do not know how many songs will end up on it.
we have alot to record is the thing.
we know it will be done in a home in east nashville.
we know our friend jason robinson will be coming to engineer the project.
we know it will be different from what we, as a group, have done in the past.
we know there will be guests.
we know it will be done by the close of august.

on a sad note:
our friend and bass player of many years, mr.james dernoncourt has decided to pursue A Lionface Symphony fulltime, thus putting him in a position that required him leaving the group.  There was no ill will as we are still very good friends and support him and all of his future endeavors(as should you).  He is a dear friend that will remain dear. james' last show will be on june 2 in detroit with all of us present.  kisses jimmy.

a nice note:
our friend zach powers formerly of the k'nids has agreed to begin practicing and playing with us.  we are going to go slow as jim's shoes are big and hard and rough and mean.  we are pleased it is zach to come aboard and jim has been a gracious teacher. 

good luck to all, and to all a good night.

bryan farmer.

bryan(the irritating one) will be a guest on bumper 2 bumper on WMTS(88.3) between 4-6 pm on wednesday april 11.  he will be playing a couple songs and discussing seafood, east nashville, and what those two things have in common.  he will also probably mention the band at some point.  but that is neither here nor over there. the detroit durge shows coming this weekend (april 13 at the boro and 15 at springwater) will also be part of the perverbial horse to be beaten...so come on and give it a listen, he will have charm, trust me.  just oodles of charm and disarm right there in front of your drums.

biscuits and toddlers and muffins and candies and rainbows and ponies

                                                                                        seabee

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