New Picnic Time

New Picnic TimeInitially released in 1979, New Picnic Time is weird, wonderful and so far beyond the expected that these deconstructions of popular music are as charmingly retro as the Beatles and as modern as today's blendings of funk, hip hop and alt rock. Revolutionary and demented yet full of fun, Pere Ubu are indispensable to any collection of 20th century rock. (Herald American, Scott Laurence). The album features in new box set, Architecture Of Language 1979

or who I was at the time of creating the project

The avant-garde tones and arrangements of Arab Strap are absorbed here into Molina's songwriting to create what would become

" and "Gratitude

she's added more buttons and joints to those already being used (one essential new joint is dexterous bass member Nate Brenner

One word that might aptly describe Japan’s society and culture during the 1980s would be ‘bubble economy(バブル 景気)’

gentrification

2015 by Captured Tracks

In opener “Lungs” we hear her plead

this collection spans the decade between 1995 and 2005 when the Canadian popstar first broke out in the States

these Philadelphia stalwarts have continually amazed all comers with not only their songcraft and musicianship

poignant riddles that celebrate the ambiguity of love and affirm the conflict of harmonious life within a disharmonic world

and a conversation with Pharoah himself