Comecrudos Press – Upcoming June Release
Wednesday, June 8th, 2011Our new EP Comecrudos will be released June 21 on Thrill Jockey Records. You may pre-order it here.
We have already been getting in many great reviews of the record so far from the US, UK and Italy – which includes one of the most original, and awesome reviews we have ever received. Here are some reactions already:
Bastonate Graphic Review!!!!: “Disco dell anno” (Click the link for an awesome graphic review!)
Buscadero (Italy), **NB translation by the author and review in print “The fascination of this immense, magical and ghostly landscape on Van, Lain and Jennings is clearly detectable in the first of the four tracks, where a massive drone coming out from the natural reverberation of the instruments and the amplifiers ( no pedals of any type have been used in the whole record) merges with the spectral appearances coming from an ultra meditative and ambient wind section.
All this leads in the second part of Comecrudos, to a beautiful sweet acoustic ballad with a thin thread of organ in the background of Van’s voice. … Side B opens with a fantastic desert rock song (hypnotic rhythm, nice guitars and drones of winds), followed by an evocative instrumental song with trambling Ennio Morricone-ish guitars and a definite cinematic feel. As usual, a great band!”
The Liminal: “Pontiak’s Comecrudos EP is vivid as a four-part play. … What Pontiak seem to have hit on here – wonderfully – is a new way of doing “motorik” music. Some distance removed, geographically and musically, from the synthesised confections of kraut; this is earthy, dusty, heat-and-rain soaked automotive music – in equal part inspired by the vehicle in which the journey takes place, and riven from the harsh surroundings: the landscape, the weather, the sounds and the emotions evoked by the voyage.”
Dirty Impound: “Straight up, Pontiak is one of the strongest and most consistently growing trios slapping rock awake these days. Capable of short, cutting bursts and widescreen color blasts, this band harnesses the heavy-sacked thump of original trio Grand Funk Railroad married to unexpected stretches of introspective, exploratory beauty and strangeness. They’ve got a new EP, Comecrudos, arriving June 21, which is a quartet of interlocking pieces. This subliminally druggy clip gives ya a sample of what’s in store before sliding into older song ‘Shell Skull.’”
SpaceLab: “They make a point to say that this album was recorded with no effects or guitar pedals, reflecting the barren nature of the sprawling landscape itself. For these reasons, even before giving the EP a proper spin, the expectations were, admittedly, outrageous. … My skepticisms melted away when it started playing through my headphones, as the dissonant rough keyboards rubbed against each other more like an orchestra tuning up than a rock and roll song. Pontiak is a band who, even without the aids of distortion pedals or amplifier distortion are able to create vast and atmospheric compositions that reflect the thrill and wonder of a road trip. … If this was what the three-piece outfit was able to put together based on an abridged camping trip, their upcoming proper full-length is destined to be something that will be praised by the independent music scene and the experimental music scene as well.”
Norman Records 4/5 stars:”… Rarely do you hear such experimentalism without an apparent fear of tunes, but these guys seem to embrace both ends of the musical spectrum and bring them together in an unforced and rewarding way. … Visionary and uncluttered stuff.”
Fluid Radio: “The four parts of Comecrudos form the perfect introduction to the world according to Pontiak. … It’s as if the band members were let into some kind of dark secret that night in the desert, maybe they were, only they know, whatever happened to them I’ll bet their dreams were interesting. Perhaps they saw, thought, wished and then forgot something that has since grown within them, the unconscious thought in the symbolism of a landscape made real in these instruments, this voice.”
StorDisco (Italy):: 4/5 “Venticinque minuti tutti di un fiato. … Vibrante nel vero senso della parola, tanto che è un peccato limitarsi ad ascoltarla da pc, più scandita delle precedenti, con uno schema più volte ripetuto, ma che non si sa come continua a far perdere. Ci si aspetta il ritorno della voce, ma improvvisamente tutto si ferma. Non è un cambio traccia, ma la fine dell Ep. Impossibile ricordarsi altro.”
L’odoro Nero (Italy): “Se questa è la direzione presa dalla band siamo molto curiosi di scoprire cosa ci riserverà il futuro, intanto sicuramente con questo nuovo EP in uscita il 21 Giugno per Thrill Jockey (uscita esclusivamente in vinile 12″) si può tranquillamente dire che siamo davanti ad una nuova “veste” per il trio di fratelli made in Virginia.”
