Fangs (album)
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Fangs! is the fourth studio album from experimental rock
band Falling Up. It was released on March 24, 2009 through BEC Recordings
.
blogs and official YouTube
channel randomly during 2008.
On January 23, the band's official MySpace profile was changed to reflect the new album's artwork and style. The band added a new song, entitled "Streams of Woe at Acheron", to their Myspace profile on January 22 and announced the album pre-order on January 27. There are three pre-order choices, each consisting of the physical album and either band signatures or a t-shirt and plastic "fangs".
On March 4, Jesus Freak Hideout
posted an album "PReview", which consisted of 20-second clips of every main track and a review, including track lengths.
On March 6, Falling Up posted a new song from the album, called "Goddess of the Dayspring, Am I", on their Myspace
page. The track lengths for the version posted on Falling Up's Myspace
and the one reported by Jesus Freak Hideout
are, for no known reason, different.
On March 13, Amazon
posted Fangs for pre-order via MP3 download, which included extended 30-second previews of each song. This posting confirms that "Goddess of the Dayspring, Am I" has a song length of 4:31.
On March 21 the album was leaked to the internet via p2p downloading networks.
Attempting to discern the actual plot from Jessy Ribordy's abstract poeticism is made even more difficult by introduction of new vocabulary. For example, a "green lift," mentioned in "Streams of Woe At Acheron," is "a way of abstracting poison from the skin."
The track "Goddess of the Dayspring, Am I" is the main character's lament over the loss of The Queen of Neptuenn, whom he falls in love with. He gets entangled in a scandal because, while The King is mongering over war, his Queen falls in love with our main character. Because of his political involvement with Neptuenn, things get complicated and the result is the eventual death of the Queen (essentially "by accident", although there are reasons to believe she was murdered"). So the song is his lament at her death, "flowers in your hair" is what he is looking at as her body lies in the casket, and is also a reference to Ophelia's said-to-be suicide in Shakespeare's "Hamlet," in which she drowns in the river surrounded by flowers.
Experimental rock
Experimental rock or avant-garde rock is a type of music based on rock which experiments with the basic elements of the genre, or which pushes the boundaries of common composition and performance technique....
band Falling Up. It was released on March 24, 2009 through BEC Recordings
BEC Recordings
BEC Recordings is a Christian rock record label that is a subsidiary of Tooth and Nail Records. The label was formed in 1997 in partnership with the EMI Christian Music Group....
.
Background
Falling Up announced Fangs in August 2008, recorded from September through November, and completed the album around late 2008. The material for the album was written during early and mid 2008. Album updates were announced via the band's MySpaceMySpace
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blogs and official YouTube
YouTube
YouTube is a video-sharing website, created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005, on which users can upload, view and share videos....
channel randomly during 2008.
On January 23, the band's official MySpace profile was changed to reflect the new album's artwork and style. The band added a new song, entitled "Streams of Woe at Acheron", to their Myspace profile on January 22 and announced the album pre-order on January 27. There are three pre-order choices, each consisting of the physical album and either band signatures or a t-shirt and plastic "fangs".
On March 4, Jesus Freak Hideout
Jesus Freak Hideout
Jesus Freak Hideout is a Christian music website. The website specializes in reviewing, previewing, and selling Christian albums. The website is known for its album reviews, independent music, artist interviews, concert dates and ministry through devotionals and prayer...
posted an album "PReview", which consisted of 20-second clips of every main track and a review, including track lengths.
On March 6, Falling Up posted a new song from the album, called "Goddess of the Dayspring, Am I", on their Myspace
Myspace
Myspace is a social networking service owned by Specific Media LLC and pop star Justin Timberlake. Myspace launched in August 2003 and is headquartered in Beverly Hills, California. In August 2011, Myspace had 33.1 million unique U.S. visitors....
page. The track lengths for the version posted on Falling Up's Myspace
Myspace
Myspace is a social networking service owned by Specific Media LLC and pop star Justin Timberlake. Myspace launched in August 2003 and is headquartered in Beverly Hills, California. In August 2011, Myspace had 33.1 million unique U.S. visitors....
and the one reported by Jesus Freak Hideout
Jesus Freak Hideout
Jesus Freak Hideout is a Christian music website. The website specializes in reviewing, previewing, and selling Christian albums. The website is known for its album reviews, independent music, artist interviews, concert dates and ministry through devotionals and prayer...
are, for no known reason, different.
On March 13, Amazon
Amazon.com
Amazon.com, Inc. is a multinational electronic commerce company headquartered in Seattle, Washington, United States. It is the world's largest online retailer. Amazon has separate websites for the following countries: United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Japan, and...
posted Fangs for pre-order via MP3 download, which included extended 30-second previews of each song. This posting confirms that "Goddess of the Dayspring, Am I" has a song length of 4:31.
On March 21 the album was leaked to the internet via p2p downloading networks.
Story
Fangs is a fantasy/science fiction story. The premise of Fangs is, once, in a land similar to ours, the people discovered that their children wore poisoned cloth, destined to kill them. So, the people tied all the threads together, attached them to a thousand golden arrows, and launched these arrows towards the faraway planet Neptuenn. Then, thousands of years later, the people of the city were horrified to awake one day and find all of their children had been struck by giant arrows. One thing lead to another, and a traveler was sent to Neptuenn to find out who was responsible for this tragedy. The twelve tracks on Fangs presume to tell the story of this traveler and what he discovers about Neptuenn and his own planet.Attempting to discern the actual plot from Jessy Ribordy's abstract poeticism is made even more difficult by introduction of new vocabulary. For example, a "green lift," mentioned in "Streams of Woe At Acheron," is "a way of abstracting poison from the skin."
The track "Goddess of the Dayspring, Am I" is the main character's lament over the loss of The Queen of Neptuenn, whom he falls in love with. He gets entangled in a scandal because, while The King is mongering over war, his Queen falls in love with our main character. Because of his political involvement with Neptuenn, things get complicated and the result is the eventual death of the Queen (essentially "by accident", although there are reasons to believe she was murdered"). So the song is his lament at her death, "flowers in your hair" is what he is looking at as her body lies in the casket, and is also a reference to Ophelia's said-to-be suicide in Shakespeare's "Hamlet," in which she drowns in the river surrounded by flowers.
Track listing
The album contains twelve songs and five transitional tracks that are not numbered. The transitional tracks are part of the songs they're listed before or after, more as introductions or lead-outs than anything.- "Blooming from the Corner"
- "A Colour Eoptian"- 3:48
- "Lotus and the Languorous"- 4:43
- "Streams of Woe at Acheron"- 4:20
- "Magician Reversed"- 5:07
- "The Discoveratory"
- "Golden Arrows"- 4:07
- "The King's Garden"- 2:34
- "Panic and Geo-Primaries"- 3:56
- "The Moonn and Sixpence"- 3:33
- "Our Lady Satuernn's Reef"
- "Goddess of the Dayspring, Am I"- 4:31
- "The Sidewinder Flux"- 4:36
- "Gears Under the Water"
- "The Chilling Alpine Adventure"- 3:39
- "Swimming Towards Propellers"- 2:04
- "The Signal From Forum A"
Trivia
- Track 7 "Panic and Geo-Primaries" contains the chorus and main theme from "Arch to Archtilles", from Falling Up's previous album Captiva.