Friday, April 24, 2009
Foreign Born: Person to Person

Foreign Born's upcoming release "Person to Person," due June 23 on Secretly Canadian. If you didn't hear about them back in 2007 you should go back and find their older music, too, because it is excellent.

Who would like it? Anyone who likes mellow, shoegaze, cymbal filled music.

Black Iris Records presents Foreign Born as part of their 7" series

With studios in New York, Los Angeles and Richmond, Virginia, Black Iris is a talented collective of musicians rooted in the independent music scene, providing original compositions and scores for entertainment, advertising and media. Because of their deep attachment and connection with the musical underground, the Black Iris label continues to offer fresh and unique sounds that stay ahead of current musical trends. Stemming from the music stages of Virginia and Los Angeles, the group's talent now has national reach, working across genres and actively touring the globe. Their composers include members of the Walkmen, Phantom Planet, Earlimart, Denali, Foreign Born and others.

Black Iris creates music for topline brands and internationally known ad agencies, including their work for the ESPN X Games, Cadillac, Hummer & Gatorade.

Listen:

Foreign Born - "Vacationing People" (mp3)

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Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Person to Person

Foreign Born's second full length and Secretly Canadian debut, "Person To Person," set to be released June 23, 2009.

A holiday escape to the ocean side is meant to keep the tribulations of daily life at bay. Yet every joyous moment of vacation is undercut with a strange melancholy as you do the math on the finite nature of your getaway. So, you take your sweet, sweet time with that cold drink and offer a cheers an extra time or two.

"Vacationing People," the first taste of LA's Foreign Born's, "Person To Person," is cut through with this same duality: celebration in spite of trouble on the horizon. While the song is propelled by a benga-flavored beat, a fuzzed-out synth bass, clucking tropical cowbells and a soaring horn section, its frontman Matt Popieluch's emotive, Aschcroft-y delivery that keeps the song in check. "Yes, we lived a life of gray-lined silver," Popieluch sings as the song slows and quiets for some faux-Hawaiian slide guitar. "We live like vacationing people. We take our long walks falling."

Foreign Born is Lewis Pesacov, Matt Popieluch, Garrett Ray and Ariel Rechtshaid.

Listen:

Foreign Born - "Vacationing People" (mp3)

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War on Drugs Update:

For a large part of its upcoming North American tour, Philadelphia's THE WAR ON DRUGS will be supporting The Hold Steady, whose frontman Craig Finn -- like you should have done by now -- has professed his love for the band's 2008 psych-Americana triumph "Wagonwheel Blues."

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