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Sin Ropas (Members of Califone / Ex-Red Red Meat)

Dienstag, 9. März

After a five year break between albums, Tim Hurley (Red Red Meat, Califone, Loftus) and Danni Iosello return to offer their most lucid and evocative record yet:Sin Ropas' long-awaited fourth full-length release, Holy Broken. Read on …

As with Sin Ropas' previous releases, including 2004's highly praised 'Trickboxes on the Pony Line', 'Holy Broken' is a very much a product of its environment. Performed and recorded in the basement studio of Tim and Danni's mountaintop log cabin, this collection ofchamber pop songs is imbued with an intimate, claustrophobic quality (a la Sid Barret) while retaining a citified backwoods ruckus on par with any Rolling Stones romp or oddly, even a raw Buzzcocks rant. The songs are unerringly Sin Ropas: scratchy, catchy melodies, sick and glorious guitars, rickety pianos, fallen down drums, and otherworldly, junkyard sounds. Making genius use of found objects, most of the songs were enhanced with Tim's homemade instruments: an amplified giant thumb piano made out of a dresser drawer pounds a bassline; a two string hurdy-gurdy crafted from an old church organ pipe cranks out a string harmony; a Christmas cookie tin turned fretless banjo plucks along with the relic-like electric instruments in their everyday collection making songs that revel in catchy melody while also evoking a sense of place, of images, of a thrilling unknown beyond.Onstage, the two multi-instrumentalists are like collaborating one-man bands manipulating guitars, loops, melodica, harmonium, stylophone, samplers, drums, and keyboards all at once, creating simple yet intricate music that is greater than the sum of its parts.

'Holy Broken' will immediately seem like an old friend to fans of Sin Ropas, and will provide plenty of reminiscence for those familiar with Hurley's early bands, but there's something different about it, too. It may be that Tim's wobbly taut-wire voice is stronger and more beautiful than ever, it may be in the more glamorous saunter of the rhythms. What's true, though, is that there is a new ineffable element in 'Holy Broken' that comes from that swagger of clarified intention, an element that pulls the past out farther than we can see it, illuminating all that's beautiful and terrifying.Sin Ropas may be known for their sleeper hits and their status as a 'secret' band, but 'Holy Broken' demands your attention from the start and keeps it long after the needle scratches to the end.

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