The Lonelyhearts - Disaster Footage at Night

Ambitious and consistent, Disaster Footage at Night is a great second album. The record finds the Lonelyhearts getting a bit more aggressive than their intimate and well-received debut, Dispatch. Disaster Footage is both concise and expansive, featuring some of the band's shortest and tightest songs as well as epics that stretch out with grand structures. Yet the band's primary strengths – simple but intriguing melodies and daring lyricism – remain intact.

The musical palette is varied: Once defined by acoustic guitars and airy synths, here they also employ distorted guitars and crunchy organs. The narratives cover a lot of ground, too: Gender-swapping in Tennessee, post-war trauma, star-crossed love affairs on the alternately drug-fueled and bourgeois streets of the Bay Area, and getting inside the head of the sole black member of the Duke University lacrosse team. Everything is fair game on Disaster Footage at Night.

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THE LONELYHEARTS
DISASTER FOOTAGE AT NIGHT
RELEASE DATE: SEPTEMBER 16, 2008
CATALOG NUMBER: TRR047
UPC: 828651004723

September '08 Tour Dates

8/21: San Francisco, CA :: Hemlock Tavern
9/11: Iowa City, IA :: The Picador :: with Langhorne Slim and Centro-matic
9/12: Madison, WI :: Mother Fools
9/13: Dubuque, IA :: Isabellas :: w. Wye Oak
9/14: TBD
9/15: Chicago, IL :: The Empty Bottle :: with Wye Oak
9/16: Milwaukee, WI :: Stonefly :: w. Wye Oak
9/17: Iowa City, IA :: The Mill :: with Wye Oak
9/18: TBD
9/19: Champaign-Urbana, IL :: Canopy Club :: with Black Mountain




Ambitious and consistent, Disaster Footage at Night is a great second album. The record finds the Lonelyhearts getting a bit more aggressive than their intimate and well-received debut, Dispatch. Disaster Footage is both concise and expansive, featuring some of the band's shortest and tightest songs as well as epics that stretch out with grand structures. Yet the band's primary strengths – simple but intriguing melodies and daring lyricism – remain intact. The musical palette is varied: Once defined by acoustic guitars and airy synths, here they also employ distorted guitars and crunchy organs. The narratives cover a lot of ground, too: Gender-swapping in Tennessee, post-war trauma, star-crossed love affairs on the alternately drug-fueled and bourgeois streets of the Bay Area, and getting inside the head of the sole black member of the Duke University lacrosse team. Everything is fair game on Disaster Footage at Night.

The Lonelyhearts’ music finds its roots in the acoustic strums of American folk and bedroom rock. The band builds on these foundations, incorporating elements of synth-pop, shoegaze, and even Southern rock. Lyrically, the albums unfold like collections of short stories, each song revealing a thoughtful and interesting narrative. The band renders characters, scenes, and impressions of life with grace and subtlety, the lyrics never feeling out of place with the music. The result is a sort of spacey folk-rock. Or, think of Grandaddy meets the Mountain Goats. Andre Perry and John Lindenbaum met in San Francisco while playing in different bands. Inspired by a Jason Lytle (Grandaddy) solo show in 2002, they formed the Lonelyhearts. After releasing their first EP on San Francisco’s DIY or Else Records in 2004, the band toured the country, following up with the Dispatch LP in 2005 and more national touring. Since the fall of 2005, it’s been a long distance relationship with Andre living in Iowa City, Iowa and John remaining in the Bay Area. Like a lot of folks, the Lonelyhearts are just two guys trying to pay the rent, fight age and responsibility, and find time to do what they love: making music. They take time off from jobs, school, and girlfriends to travel around the country playing their songs. They see tour as vacation, the great escape from the ennui of everyday life. They play as many intimate DIY house shows as they do clubs. On the road, it’s just the two of them with a guitar, a keyboard, and a lot of harmonies. They’ve played alongside the Dodos, Lou Barlow, American Analog Set, Jana Hunter, Bishop Allen, and Audio Out Send. They recently toured with Suzie Johannes (Range Life Records) and will team up with Baltimore's Wye Oak (Merge) this fall.

Track List: 01 - Harlequin Bands [mp3] 02 - Overpass 03 - New Virginia [mp3] 04 - Complicated Men 05 - Concrete and Chrome 06 - Notes on the Reassignment 07 - Borders Without Doctors 08 - The Carpenter 09 - Black and Blue Devil	Click to Download [Hi-Res Album Cover \| 300dpi]	Click to Download [Hi-Res Band Photo\| 300dpi]
THE LONELYHEARTS DISASTER FOOTAGE AT NIGHT RELEASE DATE: SEPTEMBER 16, 2008 CATALOG NUMBER: TRR047 UPC: 828651004723	www.thelonelyhearts.net www.myspace.com/lonelyheartssf www.threeringrecords.com www.threeringdigital.com www.myspace.com/threeringrecords

	September '08 Tour Dates
	8/21: San Francisco, CA :: Hemlock Tavern 9/11: Iowa City, IA :: The Picador :: with Langhorne Slim and Centro-matic 9/12: Madison, WI :: Mother Fools 9/13: Dubuque, IA :: Isabellas :: w. Wye Oak 9/14: TBD 9/15: Chicago, IL :: The Empty Bottle :: with Wye Oak 9/16: Milwaukee, WI :: Stonefly :: w. Wye Oak 9/17: Iowa City, IA :: The Mill :: with Wye Oak 9/18: TBD 9/19: Champaign-Urbana, IL :: Canopy Club :: with Black Mountain

To request a promo copy of Disaster Footage at Night, please send an email to Daniel Crowell at theringmaster@threeringrecords.com Please include the name of the publication(s) / retail outlet / radio station that you represent. Booking: Andre Perry

All songs written by The Lonelyhearts ©2008 Produced by The Lonelyhearts, Daniel Crowell and Craig Clarke Mixed by Daniel Crowell Mastered by Chris Cline Graphic Design by Jamie Hand Photography by William Lamson

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