The most prominent award for listenlisten’s 2009 debut full length Hymns From Rhodesia comes on the #39th spot of the eMusic top 60 albums of 2009. Falling just one place behind blogger sensation Japandroids (pitchfork’s #15 album of the year) and finishing ahead of several others who had much larger promotion budgets behind them than our humble artist. Congratulations to listenlisten, but don’t sleep on them yet, they are not done. Hard at work on an 11 track album to be released on vinyl, they are.
listenlisten and Silence will be celebrating the release of the their first full-length album Hymns From Rhodesia (silence-007) on Murkville Music this Friday, September 18 at Mangos in Houston, TX with friends I Am Mesmer, Peter and the Wolf and Sewwhat Be sure to check out the facebook event for more information.
The official release date is set for next Tuesday, September, 22, and has already been getting some press. Yesterday an interview with band by Chris Gray of the Houston Press was posted. In the man’s words: …MORE
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It’s finally here! The debut music video from listenlisten’s debut full length [Hymns From Rhodesia] comes the second single [after "Safe Home, Safe Home In Port!"], “On The Water.” Shot on location in beautiful west Texas, listenlisten take the look of an old spaghetti western with the feel of a classic Twilight Zone episode to tell of story of nature and survival. Take a walk with three strangers (none of who are band members) into the lonely desert and discover how the dehydrated soul fights to stay alive. …MORE
Hype Machine, make way for the coming of listenlisten. Now with the stamp of approval from none other than industry standard Rolling Stone, Hymns From Rhodesia should be getting the nod from every important publication right? Well not necessarily but I certainly expected to see Pitchfork jump on this before Rolling Stone picked up on them. But hey, good music is pervasive and listenlisten has something the world truly needs to hear. Hymns couldn’t have arrived at a more perfect time either- right before the fall of our great civilization? Get ready to cue up the soundtrack to our crumbling economy. …MORE
