SPOD
SPOD – CATS
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- SUPERFRENZ –
*35 in Rolling Stone Magazines Top 50 records of 2008
*Rolling Stone 4/5 stars
*Rolling Stone 10 artists to watch
*Sydney Morning Herald’s METRO – 4/5 stars – “If the cool kids are listening to the sound of
cut copy and the presets, what should the extra-cool folks be listening to? Go no further than
Sydney’s SPOD.”
*Polaroid Of Androids PERSON OF THE YEAR 2008
*VICE Magazine 48 thousand million / 10
* Best Live Artist / Cover Art nominee 2008
*Beat Magazine “If you don’t think the unhinged pop genius of CATS! isn’t one of the best
songs of the year, you can simply fuck off.”
SPODs highly anticipated maximum overdue chart busting AMAZING RIDE OF
YOUR LIFE record ‘SUPERFRENZ’ is here. A recording, which spans over 6 home
studios, a veritable museum of classic synths and 2 hard drives melting.
This album hit a solid brick wall of emotion after SPOD returned from showcasing in
the USA at the SXSW festival in early 2007. Locking himself away in his studio with
an impressive museum of owned & borrowed classic synths; he hit the final switches
on the record. But whilst triumphantly packing and moving out of the studio, both
the album and back up hard drives did a spectacular high dive to death.
Due to the financial and emotional cost of repairing the drives, the fact it took around
3 years to get the album done through several home studios and the hellish work it
would take to get it back up and running, SPOD was going to bin the whole thing, the
album, the band, everything, out to pasture into the realms of non existence for all
eternity, until…
A super lovely crew of superfrenz caught wind of such talk and all joined forces in
wondrous superiority, organising a SPOD fundraiser pulling some money together all
on their own SPOD love accord. Along with a dose of ‘dude, pull it together and get it
done’ love, SPOD started upon the long journey to re-record, rebuilt and reinterpret
what would become SPODs long overdue second album, Superfrenz, which
is dedicated to those very people.
This destruction and reconstruction process of this album has resulted in an album
much more evolved, adventurous & musically involved, spanning & capturing the
magic of what makes Spod, SPOD, and also exploring the realms of epic majesty only
noblemen and lordmens dare… But more than anything, it reminded SPOD of why he
makes music in the first place.
SPOD has extended the abilities of his studio beyond an Atari, a sampler and a drum
machine which has allowed him to construct an album that spans from psychedelic
folk vintage synth epix about death to future metal anthems about bewbs to post hip
hop noise jams about the concept of time.
The instrumentation of these recordings range from game boys and other video game
machines, live drums, keys, piano, acoustic guitar, electric guitar and bass, this,
creating at bare minimum, an eclectic record of all sorts.SPOD recorded and produced
the entire record independently in the various studios. Then on to dealings with the
genius mixing works of Mirko Vogel (sekiden), cameo appearance from jonboyrock
on track ‘Dead’ (hard ons) and finally Shellac’s own Bob Weston mastering the
record (woo!).
This album also includes a real deal bonus secret track sh……, only available on the
cd! BONUSES forever!
SPODs recording and performance existence has been always active, innovative and
forever interesting resulting in attracting collaborating teams of multi plat legends,
having awesome bands as his SPOD band such as Black Level Embassy, Further,
Sekiden, and 2/3rds of Wolfmother and releasing special limited cassette tapes, EPs
and 7” vinyl for his people, Since the almighty return of SPOD instant support and
opportunities have unveiled themselves. Clarifying, that the people missed SPOD and
that we need all things SPOD.
Superfrenz comes in as number three on the official release schedule for SPOD taking
the lead from previous releases such as TASTE THE RADNESS and ETERNAL
CHAMPIONS.
Limited edition cassettes, 7”s and side projects have been created and treasured out
there with loyal SPOD fans as well as released remixes for midnight juggernauts,
Wolfmother and the list goes on.
Plenty of loadponies have attempted to take the crown in the absence of Sir
Spodlington, but the crown is safe once more, and secured back on his sweet kingly
head so fear not, sit back and relax and listen to SPOD.
Heres to SUPERFRENZ!
SUPERFRENZ OUT NOW through Valve / Rice Is Nice / MGM and on ITUNES!
“AMINALS” 7” / ETERNAL CHAMPIONS / TASTE THE RADNESS out now on
SPOD websites! www.spod.com.au / www.myspace.com/spod
for all enquiries please contact:
Julia Wilson – management@spod.com.au / Ph:+61421608444
