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Artist: Ed Schrader’s Music Beat
Title: Jazz Mind
Catalogue
Number: UTR053
Formats: CD / LP
Track listing:
1. Sermon
2. Gem
Asylem
3. Traveling
4. Right
5. Do
The Manuver
6. Rats
7. My
Mind Is Broken By The Sound
8. When
I’m In A Car
9. Airshow
10. I
Can’t Stop Eating Sugar
11. Gas
Station Attendant
Before Ed
Schrader’s Music Beat, Ed made music under the name Ed Schrader, layering
trippy sounds over pounding drums. A 10” from four years back documents this
era, before Ed expanded the project into Music Beat. In 2009 Devlin Rice (also
of Nuclear Power Pants) joined Ed for a one-off show. The band formed quite
unintentionally. Ed was invited to play a rave of all things, and before almost
deciding to opt out decided to join forces with his roommate Devlin for the
performance, and play as a duo, the show was magical with Ed doing manic
extended versions of his songs, crooning to a glow stick friendly crowd under a
full moon in September, while Devlin raged alongside making for a winning
combination that was too good to leave as a one night affair. This mind meld
took the left field paranoid pop that Ed was composing and added a powerful low
end power chug from the jug of eternal rock and raised the whole project a more
visceral live experience.
Since then the
band has done considerable touring with acts such as Future Islands, Lightning
Bolt, Dan Deacon and really whipped up some enthusiasm based on their minimal
and real rock vision.
The band issued a
7” on Load Records last year called ‘Sermon / Rats’ and response has been
pretty damn positive:
“a crazily
interesting Baltimore duo using bass, drums, and vocals to do something very
pummelsome in a punk way without cowtowing to any of the genres clichés”
The WIRE
“Ed Schrader
is one of the most engaging artists of our generation”
Vice Magazine
“Ed is a
master songsmith, a one man Butthole Surfers who has reduced pop and punk to
their most basic building blocks”
Village Voice
The band recorded
“Jazz Mind”, with Twig Harper (of Nautical Almanac) and mixed it with Chester
Gwazda (producer of Dan Deacon’s ‘Spider Man of The Rings’, and ‘Bromst’, and
Future Islands albums, ‘In Evening Air’ and ‘On the Water’). The recording boils down the band’s
vision of pop-inflected, stripped-down rawk to its most necessary elements.
‘Jazz Mind’ is a
sonic panorama of a record. "My Mind Is Broken By The Sound But It Gets Me
Around” finds a serene minimal bliss in floor tom and subtle robotic vocals,
whilst raging anthem “When I'm In A Car” (featuring Randy Randall of No Age)
bleeds into the more conceptual dark euphoria of compositions like
"Right" (featuring Matmos plus a real hurdy-gurdy). You hold the
truth in your hands right now, pop music in its purest form, rhythm and
personality, and what’s better than that?
