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Sound Bends Time is the first one we've recorded in a professional studio. It's also the first one with Madrona's final lineup: McGarvey, Sprague, Smith, Sharamitaro. This is the group people know if they've seen us in New Orleans. You might say the present-day Madrona is a band prone to musical mood swings, from cartoonish anger, to political melancholy, to the rare fit of straightforward pop happiness. The songs on Sound Bends Time are equally, pleasantly schizo: some of them are composed of a whole four chords, while others shift agily between time signatures, harmony and dissonance, while half-spoken, half-sung, hyper-imagistic vocals sit over the top. There's one song in the voice of George W. Bush, one about Robert McNamara, and another one about a dude who tries to get rid of his face and eventually succeeds. All this fertile variety probably stems from the variety of the members: the drummer is a manic young dude from St. Louis who likes Devo and Iggy Pop, the bassist a technically spotless player from Sacramento who recently got into Fugazi and really likes Iron Maiden and Mr. Bungle, the mandolin player a preacher's kid from Maine who digs Phish and The New Deal, and the guitar player another preacher's kid from Ohio, now a philosophy professor, who listens to Autechre, Hoover and the Rachels. Check out the artist's website: http://www.madronamusic.com Track List: 1. I-10 2. Pure 3. Captain Rage 4. Kill Everyone Now 5. The Bar Outside the World 6. Del Rio 7. French Poetry 8. Robert Strange 9. Nothing in the Desert 10. The Loner Machine 11. Ground Zero 12. The Long Island Railroad 13. One Past Order Other Genres:
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