Yes, U
Beggars Banquet
INDIE
Great new album from Melbourne’s DEVASTATIONS now signed to
Beggars Banquet . The band will be touring nationally very soon !
Devastations formed in Melbourne in 2002, but left the continent several years back, and currently reside in whichever European city will host them – most often Berlin. The group has released two previous records.
2003’s self-titled debut won them a following in Europe, and that’s where they created 2005’s ‘Coal’, an album that raised their profile considerably both home and abroad. Nominated for the Australian Music Prize (AMP), it put them in contention with esteemed countrymen like the Go-Betweens, the Drones, Ben Lee, and Wolfmother.
Meanwhile, the band mounted their first major tours of the United States and Europe, capping off a year of non-stop activity with a triumphant appearance this April at the Dirty Three-curated All Tomorrow’s Parties festival in England.
Now signed for the world by Beggars Banquet –‘Yes, U’ is the first album recorded for the label. Recorded in Berlin with Jeremy Glover and mixed in New York City with Chris Coady (Blonde Redhead, TV on the Radio), it still hints at spiritual predecessors like Serge Gainsbourg and the Velvet Underground. But it also brings to mind thornier cosmopolitans such as Suicide, Scott Walker, and Yoko Ono. It also marks the emergence of a counter-sensibility inspired by Grace Jones and Italo-Disco pioneer Giorgio Moroder.
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