Hi I just thought I would write a little something in case you are wondering what's up. We are taking some time off from playing shows until March or so to write new music and stuff. We check in with myspace still but I think we all agree the intense spam to actual communication ratio is kind of a turnoff.
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That's right, we are up to a 4-piece rock ensemble to deliver ultimate musical satisfaction.  Lain plays bass and guitar and will be bringing a slice of musical magic to our live shows and future song writing.

Come on out to The Soda Bar on July 25 to see our first full show with Lain and a new and improved Fever Sleeves set!

3615 El Cajon Blvd.
Free
w/ Modern Rifles, The Secret Stolen, and Judgement Day

The Local 94.9 has been gracious enough to pick up "Soft Pipes, Play On" as a local recommended pick for June 2009.  If you're interested in a one-stop-shop for Fever Sleeves review, lyrics, and radness . . . follow the link below!

Thanks again to 94.9 and Tim Pyles!

http://www.fm949sd.com/local/Story.aspx?ID=1099173

1. Vampyroteuthis
2. Maximum Castles
3. Cusack
4. Futuristic Killings
5. Soft Pipe Playoffs
6. Hot Steel Heat
7. Mangirlmonkeyhorse
8. New News
9. and
10. Grrraldo

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Artwork by Andy Dixon! Recording by Mario Quintero!! One lyric by Queen, another by Mike Schultz!!! Tapdancing by a guy on Youtube!!!!



LYRICS

Vampyroteuthis
Natural selection don't help humanities
a work of art is never complete, only abandoned, then becomes free
Unceremoniously.
I ain't saying that I am a saint but I can wear an honest smile on my face
21st century digital entitlement
What precedent do you make when the things worth having you just go out and take?
The worth of art's declining dramatically, the magic's being replaced
Natural selection don't help
Natural selection don't help
Natural selection don't help humanities

Maximum Castles
I need a fix of rhythmic environments. Don't make me wait for what I want.
We're a perfect match. We're always getting burned. We make ourselves trouble with these crazy plans.
There were some long nights. Now we're getting grown back, healed up.
What more can I say to make this ok.
There will always be sunshine somewhere, won't there?
Walking a rope bridge with everyone. Slip and this whole thing's done. These old planks resemble old faults and old faults can force falls.
We're a perfect match. We're always getting burned. I just wanted to watch something grow.
Bent my tree now the branches are where they shouldn't be.
We're a perfect match. We're always getting burned. We make ourselves dumber with these crazy plants.
I need a fix of rhythmic environments. Don't make me wait for what I want.

Cusack
Wore/tore your welcome out
Spurned friends, burned bridge. Must be empty now.
Oceanic structures have crumbled, eroded away.
Where once was a magnificent spire is now a monument to muck and mire.
You built your house in the sea urgently. Make yourself be something better.
You became something ugly. Make something better.
This is not a race. I only eat medicine these days. Searching for something to take the taste of blood out my mouth. No one else will learn my name. Not if I have any say.
Wore, tore your welcome out.
I know nobody stays the same way.
I know no one stays forever
No one else will learn my name. Not if I have any say.
This is not a race. I only eat medicine these days.

Futuristic Killings
Alpha Beta. Fortune for friend
Paid a rate to have companions
Way to imitate a fish in a school
Ain't ya heard of individualism bro?
Wish you wouldn't channel insecurity to being an asshole
I don't have the time for this kind of shit.
Everybody's wearing the same outfit
Ever tried being of interest?
I know they're not all enemies that
made a pledge to lazy identity
Maybe just a fan of misogyny
Maybe too afraid to stand on your own two feet
It all comes around
The future takes you every time

Soft Pipe Playoffs
Sometimes wish I'd have been a better man
Other times I think it's better this way.

Hot Steel Heat
Wouldn't know if you could go without this to make the day that much brighter.
When the light of that fire has ceased
You'll be swimming around in the belly of the beast.
Swallowed by the moment of the heat.
Didn't know if you could go without them to make the day that much brighter.
Reply to a
size 12 foot threat on an ass with "size 12? Looks more like a six and a half".
Get on your bikes and ride with Hot Steel Heat.
Let's all just drop the irony and say the simplest things we mean
I think fun is the best and money's the worst, man

Mangirlmonkeyhorse
Beads of sweat race down my neck and I feel fully alive for the first time. newfound appreciation for everything everything everything. We will climb a mountain, feel the rocks, pump sunlight into our veins, child eyes all day.
It was I who taught the robots to breathe.
There's nothing there to disprove existence like a jar of brains, recurring dreams and themes. But until then
Everything is ours. Silence for miles.
We will climb a mountain, feel the rocks, pump sunlight into our veins, child eyes all day.
Everything is sour. Silence for miles.

New News
So who's gonna bankroll this time?
Hey you in the french cuffs.
You come from a good stock?
Oh I can not stop this stride.
The paper rabbit's caught my eye.
Muzzle to face, feet to earth.
An exercise in get it first.
The paper chase just bought me all.
Don't forget these tall ceilings make tall echoes
Call and response.
Reflect
Repeat
Reflect
One of us in the long run is unfortunate
I'm not clairvoyant but I can predict shit like this
It's human comedy.
No dollar sign, my eyes see what I want to see.
I've got the cutest little priorities.
Eyes only on the currency.

Grrraldo the Feral Child
Found from a dearth of words
Talk about arrested development
That pack of wolves was heaven sent
Remember when everything hurt? Well everything hurts a lot less eventually.
Taken back from wolves and trees.
Thrust into a life he doesn't need
Remember when everything hurt?
Remember when only wolves were friends?
Remember when everything hurt? Well everything hurts a lot less even tually.
Denied humanity, now try to make him speak
Came late to society.
(Just an animal)
Critical periods of language acquisition.
Missed
No longer tan or free.
Could never nail syntax

       I’m not gonna lie to you guys, I’ve been waiting for this a long time. And now that its here, let me tell you, I’m pleased, I’m very pleased! These boys took something that was really, really good (the live show), and made it exceptional (the record). Recorded, the lines are a bit cleaner, but the power and the bite, the cleverness of melody and rhythm, its all there. This isn’t a good record, it’s a great one.
       So what’s it sound like? Man you can say math rock, and you’d be kinda right. You could also say Indy rock, and yeah, you’d be kinda right. You could also make up some new subgenre and you could probably make that work too. Me, I say just go and have a listen. Who was it, maybe Miles Davis, that said there are two kinds of music, “good music,” and “bad music.” I always liked that, and I would say this is good music.
        Personal faves are, well, Futuristic Killings. I think this song is maybe one of the best I’ve heard. Great samples leading into a wide open tune, and the melody sits soooo well. Then there is Cusack, really, really sweet with some really nice lyrics tucked around an amazing song structure. Oh, something I really want to comment on is that these songs are amazingly comfortable. Its pretty obvious how incredibly difficult these parts are, but never, not once, did I cringe. I really think only the best bands can do this, these boys are one of San Diego’s best! The artwork was done by Andy Dixon and the recording by the exceptional Mario Quintero over at Black Box.
       Right now the boys are only doing a digital release till they get a little capital to put it out, and I say lets help em out by going to the Casbah Sunday night and supporting them. They are gonna do it with The Displaced and Da Bears, its gonna be a good one.
       I would also suggest to pick up their 7” which is beautiful if your so inclined. It has Futuristic Killings (an amazing song!) and Tigers For Hire on it, and comes in Red, Pastel Pink or Hot Pink. Real men wear pink kids, hope to see you there!
—Petro Halkowycz/SD Dialed In


       These guys run the gamut of hard progressive rock. Just when you think you’re ready to peg them as At the Drive-In brethren (“Maximum Castles”), they flip it on you and start playing what sounds like old-school Death Cab. Either way they slice the bread, I reckon they put on a hell of live show. Dig it!
—Seth Combs/CityBeat


        Math rock is one of those genres that is usually influenced by others.  Right now, a lot of math-rock bands have been pulling influences from post-hardcore and post-rock, and sometimes math-rock  can be indistinguishable from these genres. Well, the San Diego-based trio Fever Sleeves are here to add a little pip in the step of one of the genres that can oftentimes feel way too serious and complex to the average listener. Soft Pipes, Play On is a misleading title for one heck of a ripping album.
       The instrumentals seep in, post-rock style, on the opener “Vampyroteuthis,” and suggest something that has been done before. But that lasts for all of 54 seconds or so, until the instrumentals rip open like a wildfire. The vocalist of the Fever Sleeves then comes in and it’s not that post-hardcore style that so often works in math rock, it’s an infectious indie-pop one. That’s the trick to a l0t of the Fever Sleeves songs: they work in the medium of indie-pop.
      This may be one of the more accessible math-rock albums I’ve ever heard. It never drags. All of the songs average at about 3 mintues each, which is shocking compared to the usual instrumental freakouts that last upward of five minutes.   The track “Cusack”  comes as such a suprise with instrumentals that play off of very melodic vocals, and vice versa. The song could easily be a pop-fest, but the Fever Sleeve’s instrumentals take it to complex and full musical territories that indie-pop bands simply couldn’t pull off. A thrilling, refreshing listen, Soft Pipes, Play On shows that Fever Sleeves seems to be doing something that may have seemed too incredibly obvious to other bands, and doing it with fervor.
—Tim Wallen/Independent Clauses

I’ll be blunt: I don’t like the term “math rock.” I’d go as far as to say that I hate it. It’s stupid I don’t believe it conveys anything about the music in any way whatsoever. If somebody had told me that I was about to listen to “math rock” before I first listened to Don Caballero, I probably wouldn't have bothered. Luckily, that didn’t happen and my eyes were opened to enjoy the angular rhythms and odd time signatures that encapsulate the genre. 

I apologize for starting a positive review with Andy Rooney-esque complaining, but I have just one more gripe: Some more recent math rock bands just sound like Explosions in the Sky with irregular and dissonant chords. Basically, the music is pretty boring. Math rock should have a little more ferocity and stop/start melody to it. They don’t have to sound like Keelhaul or anything but some energy would be nice. I’m not a fan of the more light, relaxed music of the genre either. The first song on the album, “Vampyroteuthis” starts off like this, but only for the first 54 seconds. Then a more upbeat, chaotic riff breaks out, to my relief. Then, to my pleasure, the song gains a sharp, angular riff. 

The vocals are a little soft spoken but it fits the music nicely. The serene vocal delivery both contrasts and complements the sharp-cornered rhythms of the music. The Q and Not U comparisons are inevitable, especially since the band is named after one of their songs. The dance-like rhythms are there, as exemplified by "Maximum Castles," one of the album’s high points. The shifting musical focus never sounds cluttered, despite the awkward and complicated nature of the genre. The vocal melody is both catchy and relaxing at times. 

They are reminiscent of So Many Dynamos; this is prevalent on the track “Hot Steel Heat.” There is, however, less Dismemberment Plan influence here. Also, despite the solemn tone of the vocals, this band is not afraid to show off a little Breadwinner influence either. That is what’s refreshing about this album -- the variety of influences mesh together to a point where the listener doesn't know what’s going to happen next. The song can break into a jazzy bass interlude or just descend into chaos, segueing into the next track. 

If I had just heard the vocal tracks to these songs, I’d swear it would be some catchy indie band. Yet, throw sometimes smooth, sometimes violent and shifting instrumentation under those vocals, and you get this album. This definitely makes the songs more accessible for those not too familiar with the genre. I would like to see how this band progresses, as this is one hell of a debut. 

The entire album (minus the 30-second drone and static track "And") is streaming at their MySpace. 

P.S. I don’t generally give a shit about music videos, but this one is pretty cool. It’s some weird cartoon ghost (who looks strikingly similar to that Mold creature from Aqua Teen Hunger Force) making its way through and interacting with different album covers.
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