Break The Clasp, by LAE

Break The Clasp

by LAE

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Darknight This is a great album with the legendary Steve Austin at the helm. A musical journey into psychedelic experimental rockin goodness. Favorite track: Spare Me Logic.

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Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of Further Layers Of Societal Collapse, Ensuring The Bloodline Ends Here, Classhole, GODHUNTER & AMIGO THE DEVIL Present: The Outer Dark, Break The Clasp, GH/0ST:S, La Fin Absolue Du Monde, City Of Dust, and 1 more. , and , .

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1.	Sexy Sadie 03:54	buy track
2.	Break The Clasp 07:28	buy track
3.	To Give You The Stars Above 04:09	buy track
4.	Broken Knee 03:27	buy track
5.	Reunion 04:39	buy track
6.	New Moon 03:59	buy track
7.	Sister 03:53	buy track
8.	Spare Me Logic 04:20	buy track
9.	Let Me Die In The Memory of Her Arms 02:10	buy track
10.	Geisha 03:04	buy track
11.	17 Queen 05:34	buy track
12.	Cold Dark Drive 05:37	buy track
13.	Space Travel 00:32	buy track

about

Break The Clasp is the otherworldly debut album from Montreal-based psychedelic post-rock artisans, LAE, finally set to see its release this Autumn, as the eclectic outfit undergoes an absolute rebirth.

Performing as LAE-TSEU, their initial moniker, the outfit initially impacted the Quebec art and post-hardcore/emo/indie circuits in the apocalypse-ready Y2K era of the mid 1990s, having set out to distance themselves from the established conventions of rock music as well as the trappings of the various alternative subgenres. However, after carving an excellent name for themselves regionally, and as they prepared to record their debut album, the band dissolved, with several members’ lifestyles beginning to rot away at the rest of the band, professionally and personally.

In mid-2013, having restructured the lineup and dropping half of their previous band name, LAE emerged from the unfortunate ashes of what transpired two decades ago, completely re-envisioning the songs with new life knowledge and a ravenous hunger to make them better than ever. To capture this soundtrack, bassist, Ronald Jean-Gilles, drummer Serge Nakauchi Pelletier, and guitarists Stephane Desgroseilliers and Marc Lucas Ablasou contracted Steve Austin (Today Is The Day), flying him and an arsenal of gear from his Austin Enterprises from Maine to record in Ablasou’s wood shop/warehouse. Here, the five musicians utilized acoustic and electric guitars, trumpet, saws, multiple electric organs and pianos and more to capture their long-awaited full-length, Break The Clasp in full analog on a vintage Neve Console. However, as Austin became immersed in the recordings, eventually his producer duties shifted to more instinctive musician sense, and in the end, Austin ended up performing lead vocals to the entire album in addition to other musical contributions.

After being mastered at Austin Enterprises back in Maine, and being fitted with imaginative cover art crafted by the band’s longtime cohort Sonny Kay (The VSS, Gold Standard Laboratories label), LAE’s Break The Clasp will finally see its birth this Autumn. Encompassing nearly fifty-three minutes of unclassifiable, unearthly, heartbreaking psychedelic audio artistry, while fans of Three Mile Pilot, Swans, Sonic Youth, Unwound, Slint, Shellac and more will be instantly hooked by these tales of love, devotion and loss, Break The Clasp is an incredible experience, the record unfathomably original and unlike anything accessible on this planet. Break The Clasp will be issued through a collaborative release between The Compound and Battleground Records. The digital download and eco-friendly, 6-panel digipak will be available on November 25th, 2014, and a massive 180-gram double LP in February 2015 as the band begins touring throughout North America

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released November 25, 2014

Recorded and mixed by Steve Austin in Montreal, Canada.
Mastered by Steve Austin at Austin Enterprises, Maine, USA.
Artwork by Sonny Kay.
Layout by Sonny Kay and Dave Brenner.

Band members: Ronald Jean-Gilles, Serge Nakauchi Pelletier, Stephane Desgroseilliers, Marc Lucas Ablasou, Steve Austin

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