Alright, kids. Let’s be fucking PUNK ROCK about this. Ready? Here we go.
String Noise is husband-and-wife duo Pauline Kim Harris and Conrad Harris. And there isn’t SHIT you can DO ABOUT THAT.
They are releasing a new album November 27 on Northern Spy called The Book of Strange Positions (TBOSP) as a fucking punk-as-fuck pre-orderable cassette and digital download. NO MATTER WHAT the goddamn MAN in the WHITE HOUSE says.
TBOSP contains 11 songs — and ZERO APOLOGIES, asshole — in a “mix of classic punk covers ” (of the likes of Black Flag, Bad Brains, Violent Femmes, Radiohead, and Half Japanese) and “original arrangements” of music by composer Eric Lyon. For example, one of the tracks, “Violent Phase,” “applies phasing techniques common in early music by Steve Reich (such as Violin Phase, the basis for the portmanteau title) to melodies from the Violent Femmes’ song ‘Blister in the Sun.’” And I KNOW WHAT YOU’RE THINKING, and the answer is NO: I DON’T know what “portmanteau” means.
Anyway, you can check out a sample (or DON’T. WHICHEVER.) down at the bottom of this terse fucking article… and, honestly, if you don’t LIKE THAT? You can go STICK IT.
The Book of Strange Positions tracklisting:
01. Gimme Gimme Gimme
02. The Book of Strange Positions
03. Gone Daddy Gone
04. In Limbo
05. Violent Phase
06. Folk Noise
07. Noise Impromptu
08. Two Kinds of Noise
09. Don’t Need It
10. We Do Parties
11. No More Beatlemania