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"It could well be one of the unlikely contenders for record of the year."
- AngryApe
Cover painting by Alex Katz. Photography by Sarah Cass.
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MP3
"For Halloween"
"The Beaches All Closed"
UNIVERSAL ACCLAIM FOR COME INTO MY HOUSE
"Come into My House is a studied synthesis of forms, a sweetly sad song cycle about loneliness and domesticity, and a totally singular pop record."
- The Stranger
RECORD OF THE MONTH, February 2008
- Vice Magaine Germany
"It could well be one of the unlikely contenders for record of the year."
- AngryApe
"You'll be so happy and thrilled that you heard this stuff that sleeping and working will appear to be annoying pauses during which you can't listen to No Kids."
- Audio Surface
"This Canadian trio have made what might one of the most perfect records of 2008 with Come Into My House, an album inspired equally by Janet Jackson, '40s musicals and Arthur Russell... There's really not enough time to fully describe what to expect out of this one, you'll have to try it for yourself."
- Austinist
"David Byrne approved and sure to be one of the year's biggest debuts and surprises, Come Into My House has been one of the most refreshing and fun records I've listened to this year."
- Muzzle of Bees
"If you loved Architecture and Helsinki's first album and then scowled at their later work, you'll probably find redemption with Tomlab's No Kids."
- Relevant Magazine
INFO
Come Into My House is the first release by Vancouver, Canada trio No Kids. Comprised of three-quarters of the critically revered pop band P:ano, No Kids are multi-instrumentalists Julia Chirka, Justin Kellam, and singer/songwriter Nick Krgovich.
Recorded at The Hive Studio in Vancouver (with the help of a sizeable grant from the Canadian government and the talents of nine guest musicians), Come Into My House achieves an unexpected cohesiveness despite the wide range of musical styles covered in its forty-one minutes. Golden era Hollywood musicals, Jam & Lewis-inspired production techniques, the icy displacement of contemporary R'n'B, and the breadth of Arthur Russell's, disco, pop, and avant garde compositional work are referenced and married together by novelistic narrative strains, a lush instrumental palette, and a cinematic atmosphere.
Come Into My House is an album set in the perpetual Autumn New England of Douglas Sirk's classic melodramas. Krgovich's songs are populated by stuffy, lonely, Ivy League educated recluses with amazing wardrobes, languishing in empty beach houses while the leaves whip past enormous picture windows. Its dreariness in only the broadest of gestures, made Technicolor and hugely romantic with sweeping orchestral arrangements. Like the characters in an Alex Katz painting coming to life and bursting into song, Come Into My House turns the mundane into cinemascopic musical extravaganza. It's easy to imagine Busby Berkeley-esque dance numbers for any one of these twelve tracks. Ambitious to the point of absurdity, Come Into My House is an album too grand to ignore.
Come Into My House (which takes its name from a 1989 Queen Latifah dance single) will be released by the Tomlab label on February 19, 2008. The first single, "For Halloween," capitalizes on elaborate vocal arrangements, thick bass, skittering rhythms, and an unexpected bassoon break to deliver an endlessly listenable piece of pop music. I can't imagine a better introduction to a truly spectacular and endlessly surprising debut album from No Kids.
Info text by Owen Ashworth of Casiotone for the Painfully Alone
To be released February 19, 2008 on Tomlab.
TRACKLIST
01 Great Escape
02 For Halloween (mp3)
03 The Beaches All Closed (mp3)
04 Bluster In The Air
05 I Love The Weekend
06 Four Freshmen Locked Out As The Sun Goes Down
07 Old Iron Gate
08 You Look Good To Me
09 Listen For It / Courtyard Music
10 Dancing In The Stacks
11 Neighbour's Party
12 The Puddle
TOUR DATES
3/15/2008 Austin TX @ Lambert's - Tomlab/Anticon SXSW Showcase
with Dirty Projectors:
3/30/2008
Boston MA @ Museum of Fine Arts
3/31/2008
Montreal QC @ La Salla Rossa
4/1/2008 Toronto ONT @ Sneaky Dees
4/3/2008
Chicago IL @ Subterranean
4/5/2008
Princeton NJ @ Terrace F Club
4/7/2008
Washington DC @ Black Cat
4/8/2008
Philadelphia PA @ First Unitarian Church
4/9/2008
Brooklyn NY @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
NORTH AMERICAN CONTACTS
Daniel Gill
Force Field PR
daniel@forcefieldpr.com
Andrew Morgan
Aero Booking
andrew@aerobooking.com
206.782.2073
Christopher Schiel
TOMLAB North America
christopher@tomlab.com
EUROPEAN CONTACTS
Germany
Gordon Weber
www.tomlab.com
France
Simon Guzylack
www.tomlab.com
UK
Sean Newsham
www.mutante-inc.demon.co.uk
Skandinavia
Anders Bersten
www.dotshop.se
Benelux
Geert Mets
www.konkurrent.nl
Italy
Sandro Favilli
www.promorama.it
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