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BIKELANE

by CRICKETS

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Drums 03:42
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Bass 03:42
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Guitar 03:42
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Vocals 03:42

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Videos by Nicole Eisenman, Brontez Purnell, Matt Connors, and Mariana Valencia are available for viewing at www.thesoundofcrickets.org

CRICKETS, JD Samson (Le Tigre), Roddy Bottum (Faith No More), and Michael O'Neill (MEN), built a record around intentionally holding back, but staying present as a team. A well-oiled machine that moved ever so slightly. They challenged the ideas of proficiency with the concept of doing less. Restraint. Gripped tightly to the frame of being together in a room. Live improvisations became songs that were recorded to analog tape while playing simultaneously in a Brooklyn studio. Looking in the eyes. Holding back, holding still, holding each other. 

With the release of BIKELANE, the band will put forth each instrumental part of this composition separately. Not in total. The original work engages with issues of worth, intellectual property, and fears of never being "together" again. The "song", written in 2018, becomes even more relevant as they find themselves unable to be physically present in their reverberated huddle. What becomes of authorship as the consumption of may turn arguably less poetic? What does it sound like when instruments are written and recorded concurrently, but we hear them separately. Alone. 

Upon the release of BIKELANE, the band asked several visual and performing artists (Nicole Eisenman, Brontez Purnell, Matt Connors, and Mariana Valencia) to interpret/translate each aural stem in the form of a video without ever hearing the whole. Some played with the audio landscape, while others found rhythm of their own. Images fall off the cliff of each sound. 

Any proceeds received will be donated to The Black Artist Fund

CRICKETS s/t debut out on Muddguts Records July 17

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released July 1, 2020

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CRICKETS Brooklyn, New York

CRICKETS is JD Samson (Le Tigre, MEN), Michael O'Neill (MEN, Princess) and Roddy Bottum (Faith No More, Imperial Teen). It's an exploration of minimalism, a celebration of restraint, a rant of queer prose set to a backdrop barrage of guitar, synthesizer and drum machine. A collision of ESG, Suicide, and the distant basement-funk cousin to Fever Ray, CRICKETS is gloriously and purposefully minimal. ... more

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