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| | | Pregnant women and people with heart ailments should avoid this ride. It?s powerful, savage and abusive. That?s the feeling you might get when hearing The Icarus Line. It?s scary. But there is a joy in being scared. It?s a rush, and when you get comfortable with it, you find its niche. |
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| Penance Soiree [26 April 2004] |
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Party The Baby Off |
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[2:34] |
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Up Against The Wall |
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[4:27] |
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Biography
The Icarus Line played their first show in New Jersey in 1998, after they had driven from Los Angeles to the east coast in Aaron?s pickup truck, to meet up with a band called Ink & Dagger and follow them around the country in the truck on tour. Coincidentally, the bloke in Ink & Dagger who got suckered into taking the unknown band on tour who had never played a show yet, and would have to borrow his band?s equipment every night, was Don Devore, who is now the bass player for The Icarus Line. The band quickly released a handful of singles on various independent labels (Hellcat, NewAmericanDream, Crank!) and then at the unanimous age of 21, put out their first album ?Mono? on their own label (Buddyhead). It soon received critical acclaim by numerous rock publications, as well as being embraced by legendary BBC DJ John Peel. A slew of recording sessions for Peel and Radio 1 shows followed, as well as two years of steady touring that took the band to all corners of the globe. They played Reading, Leeds, Roskilde, and Summersonic festivals just to name a few, and toured with such bands as Yeah Yeah Yeahs, A Perfect Circle, Primal Scream, Queens Of The Stoneage, ?Trail Of Dead, and many, many others. At the end of this two-year tour, the band was at a crossroads. They fired their manager, booking agent, lawyer, and rhythm section all at once, and when record labels showed interest in the band, they replied with their latest demo which consisted of a 12 minute long song. The suits concluded that these guys were too weird to make any money off of, and the band made plans to release their next album on their own once again. That is, until the people at V2 showed interest in the chaps, and let it be known that the group could do things their own way, and on their own terms at V2. So documents were signed, souls were sold, and the group entered various studios in the Los Angeles area to self produce their sophomore effort (with a little help from their engineer friend Mike Mussmano). The band finished recording the album this past summer in London, and then mixed the fucker down with Alan Moulder (My Bloody Valentine, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Nine Inch Nails, Smashing Pumpkins, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, etc etc).
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