Hear “Disintegration (Consider Your Brother)” now via
Consequence of Sound; Texas release shows announced, album arrives Feb. 5th
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Pleasant Grove (L-R): Chris Mayes, Marcus Striplin, Tony
Hormillosa, Bret Egner & Jeff Ryan. Photo credit: Ian Berry.
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Read
about the return of Pleasant Grove via Texas
Monthly and hear
the first single “Lava” over at KUTX, Austin.
One of the most beloved bands from Dallas has reunited
to complete an album that they started recording almost a decade ago. Referred to as “indie rock heroes” in an
announcement of the record by Texas
Monthly, Pleasant Grove will
release The Heart Contortionists via We Know Better Records on February
5th, 2016. Consequence of Sound has premiered the
album track “Disintegration (Consider
Your Brother),” which can be heard here.
Named for the Dallas suburb, Pleasant Grove was originally formed in
1998 by co-vocalists and guitarists Marcus
Striplin and Bret Egner.
“We have been down a difficult road,” explains Striplin of the near-decade that has
passed between commencing work on The Heart Contortionists, Pleasant Grove’s untimely dissolution,
and the album’s ultimate completion. Originally
engineered and mixed by Grammy-award winners John Congleton and Stuart
Sikes, The Heart Contortionists remained dormant for almost a decade
afterward.
“They brought
this thing back to life,” says Pleasant
Grove drummer, Jeff Ryan of the
album’s remix engineer, John Dufhilo
and mastering engineer, Matt Barnhart,
who were tasked with resurrecting The Heart
Contortionists for release. “I remember the conversation with Marcus when we decided to bring them
in,” Ryan continues. “After hearing
the masters back, the record became realized, in a big way.”
The
Heart Contortionists will remind listeners
of what they loved about the Pleasant
Grove sound – a folk band’s command of melody and a psych band’s command of
reverb – while also giving clues to what led to the group’s departure from the
scene. Indeed, Striplin survived drink, divorce, and a two-year case of writer’s
block to get here. An eventual move to Austin by way of NYC, sobriety, and a
new relationship led him back to musical projects, but he says “it was nothing
close to what Pleasant Grove could
make me feel.”
So, Striplin
and Egner went back and listened to
the old sessions for The Heart Contortionists with open
hearts and minds, and found that they had made a contemporary album that just happened
to be recorded ten years ago. With that, Pleasant
Grove decided to move forward, and the result is a classic-sounding record. Pleasant
Grove will play several record release shows around Texas in February and
will head to Europe for dates in May, including an appearance at the already
sold-out Orange Blossom Special Festival
in Germany. See below for details.
Nearly ten years in the making, The Heart Contortionists arrives
on February 5th, 2016
from We Know Better Records. Members of Pleasant Grove are available for interviews. Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic for more information.
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Pleasant Grove – The Heart Contortionists Record Release Shows
02/05 Austin, TX @ Mohawk
02/06 Fort Worth, TX @ Fred’s
02/07 Dallas, TX @ Twilight Lounge
Pleasant Grove – European Tour
05/10 Dortmund, Germany @ Subrosa
05/11 Norderstedt, Germany @ Music Star
05/12 Hoxter, Germany @ Tonenburg
05/13 Beverungen, Germany @ Orange Blossom Special
Festival
05/14 Beverungen, Germany @ Orange Blossom Special
Festival
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Pleasant Grove
The
Heart Contortionists
(We Know Better Records)
February 5th, 2016
Track Listing:
01. Why Did You Butcher Your Father?
02. The Pessimist Clique
04. Atoms
The Heart Contortionists Suite:
06. Fishing In Spain
07. The Devil Is In Our House
08. The Heart Contortionists
9. Donor
10. Margaret’s Alone Sitting Quite Still
11. We Lost The Maps (Bonus Track)
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Pleasant Grove Links
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Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic Promotion
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