New TBAN!, "Open Us Up"

Thunderbirds Are Now! have a new album coming out on October 3rd, Make History. The title's a bit presumptious, but I guess time will tell whether it's a statement of success or a laughable failure. For now, I'll consider it suffixed with a question mark. I must say, however, after a few listens, the album sounds promising. One can only handle so much breezey, twee summer pop before they start crapping agonious rainbows and reciting Bambi...it's good to have a new screech-rock album to funk out to. With songs like the following, I can see myself on an intravenous TBAN! drip for a little while:

[MP3] Thunderbirds Are Now! - Open Us Up
Beginning with a twittering, sporadic piano flutter, this song quickly jumps into a full out brawl of heavy synth, thrashing guitars, sharp lyrics, and a catchy chorus. This is definitely a high point of the album, Make History's concert crasher; the song the band'll probably play live after a new song to get the crowd pumped up again. Nothing says "TBAN is BACK" nearly as aptly as "Open Us Up."

YANP has one more new one!
The Hype Machine probably has a couple more too
Preorder Make History at Insound now!

Bonus MP3:

This song has nothing to do with TBAN!, it's just something that's been stuck in my head forever, so I'm sharing it in hopes that maybe if it gets stuck in enough of your heads, it'll dissipate in mine...maybe?

[MP3] Zion I - Yes Yes (w/ Gift of Gab & Lyrics Born)

sidenote


Chris GvB posted on Duplomacy! We pimped these guys back in June...because they're freaking awesome. I say they sound like a perfect mix of Weezer and "pre-suck Death Cab" (as Chris correctly puts it). Check out this song, then hit up his site for 2 more:

[MP3] Duplomacy - Stay Up Late

also

If you didn't get a chance to hit up Pitchfork Fest, definitely head over to Good Hodgkins who took some amazingly sharp photos of a good majority of the bands. When pressed at the gate by event staff about his camera, he wittingly retorted "How can a camera be "professional" if it's bought at CompUSA?" Well played, Ryan, well played.