Here's a buzz-filled Aging Youth update, from our friend Willy Tan (right).
Subject: Xin ni tua tan!
Xin ni tua tan*, Aging Youths!
This will be a relatively exciting year for us as we are looking at 4 new releases coming out this year.
B-Quartet will be releasing their as-yet-untitled followup to the critically acclaimed debut album 'Tomorrow is Our Permanent Address' within this quarter of the year. The album is about 70% recorded. We should be running a video interview with frontman Bani Haykal soon. From what we have been hearing, it's a very different beast from their first full-length, eschewing keyboards and electronic beats.
Inch Chua will be releasing her full-length album 'Wallflower' by early July. Building on her debut EP 'The Bedroom', this outing delves deeper into the folktronica and quirky folk tunes which have defined her current sound. And it will still be FREE! And they keep telling us the recession is over...
In Inch-related info (triple alliteration, ftw!), we are in the midst of putting together a show for her to raise funds to South by Southwest in March 2010. The full details are not out yet but the line-up is shaping into something quite exciting. More information to be released by the end of this week.
Looking at a release date in the 2nd half of 2010, art metalheads Lunarin will be putting out their sophomore release. While retaining their initial fixation with odd-time signatures, the trio is exploring more ambient textures, precussive elements and YES, other time signatures as well. And judging from the new tunes from the odd shows they have played, the new album will still be heavy.
Lastly, the portly Lard Brothers have shelved their dieting plans and gone head-on into recording their 3rd album 'Simply As Designed' with an eye for the release date on National Day 9 August yet again. Latest addition to the rotund crew, Robin Ng describes the general sonic aesthetics of the album: "It's like those Best-Of-The-Eighties compilation albums which you find in the record store's bargain bin!"
Still lovin' you,
Aging Youth
* Hokkien for 'earning big bucks in the new year'.
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