Product Details
- An MVD Exclusive
- SKU: MCR008
- Format: LP
- UPC: 738553512847
- Street Date: 03/10/23
- PreBook Date: 02/03/23
- Label: Midnight Cruiser Records »
- Genre: Alternative/Punk
- Run Time: 74:00 mins
- Number of Discs: 2
- Audio: STEREO
- Year of Production: 2022
- Region Code: 0
- Box Lot: 50
- Territory: WORLD
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Dan Melchior Band - Welcome To Redacted City (2 LP Black Vinyl)
Garage punk, loads of distortion and exquisite melodies careen with a poetic, renewed vigor here underscoring an album that is decidedly of the times.
- List Price: $29.99
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- In Stock: 65
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Ask Dan Melchior about the underlying narratives that play out in his records and he'll say he doesn't pay much attention to them. He simply goes where they lead him. A lot has come to pass in Melchior's life over the last few years. He made a cross-country move from his longtime home in Carrboro, NC to greener pastures of Austin, Texas. He's embarked on a brand new relationship, and...oh ...there was a global pandemic that shut down the whole world for a couple of years. It's difficult not to try connecting the dots when listening to his latest album, Welcome To Redacted City, his 3rd release with Atlanta label Midnight Cruiser Records.
Songs such as "Going Outside," "The Right Influencer," "Incel Country," & "Voyager" find the U.K. born, U.S. transplant singing and playing guitar through 21 honest-to-goodness songs backed by a full band - Chris Girard bass, Anthony Allman keyboard, and drummer Clark Blomquist yielding a cohesive, live band feel that's aligned with Melchior's earlier recordings with his Broke Revue band and many of his older releases for In The Red Records. Loads of distortion and exquisite melodies careen with a poetic and renewed vigor here, each element underscoring an album that is decidedly of the times. Each song navigates a maze of modern dilemmas, viewed through the T.V. and computer screens as the world goes to hell. But Melchior channels his anxieties into 21 uplifting numbers that sit alongside personal disasters and triumphs--the kinds of things that one obsesses over while living in isolation. The driving bass in "Voyager" and the ominous voice in "Get Right Back" spouting, "They say you can never go back home again," expand upon any and all expectation, as Melchior's words carry just as much weight as the low rumble of the music. Jumping from captivating melodies into bluesy punk-inflected chargers, the dots start to connect themselves in Redacted City, giving rise to an album steeped in menace & delight, paranoia and confidence.
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Sales Points
- Black Vinyl, black inner sleeves
- Double LP. For fans of The Fall, Dan Melchior's Book Revue
Press Quotes
Garage punk, loads of distortion, and exquisite melodies careen with a poetic and renewed vigor here, each element underscoring an album that is decidedly of the times.
—Chad Radford, RAD/ATL
excellent new quartet recordings from this now-austin-based song factory. nice space-garage/grub-blues dynamism with dan's great words on top.
—Byron Coley, Online review
As usual, the prolific British ex-pat garage-rocker has plenty to say on his umpteenth full-length -- and with the help of his sharp backing combo, he says it with style.
—Darryl Sterdan, Tinnitist.com
Welcome to Redacted City brings together all of the things you might love (or come to love, if you're just getting here) about Dan Melchior's work, the frayed distortion, the seething sarcasm, the vintage sci-fi, b-movie surreality.
—Jennifer Kelly, Dusted
Instantly likable collection of post-punk-seasoned indie rock tunes from UK-born, TX-based DAN MELCHIOR. Songs like 'Going Outside' and 'Watching TV' conjure the carefully-written but loose energy of PARQUET COURTS or TERRY with strummed guitars...
—NICK ODORIZZI, Maximum Rocknroll
Dan Melchior is a singular artist in the world of garage pop and psychedelic wandering, and on Redacted City, he and his band casually balance afternoon TV memories and internet psychosis, weird obsessions and sober analyses, '70s color palettes...
—Matt Werts, Razorcake