THE CONVENIENCE - Like Cartoon Vampires - LP - Transparent Red Vinyl [APR 18]

LP - Limited Edition Transparent Red Vinyl. 

First full-length release since 2021’s 'Accelerator,' which saw support from The Line Of Best Fit, Under The Radar, Flood Magazine, Bandcamp Daily, KCRW, All Music and more. Duo plays in both Video Age and Hovvdy + production credits with Drugdealer and Rui Gabriel. On their second record as The Convenience, Like Cartoon Vampires, New Orleans multi-instrumentalists Nick Corson and Duncan Troast embrace a hypnotic physicality and collage-y, spur-of-the-moment approach to composition. The result is an avant-rock soundworld, peppered with spidery, atonal guitar work, pointy rhythms, and strident feedback, which may strike as a total reinvention following the sugary funk-pop of their 2021 debut album Accelerator.

With their second LP, following their inspiration meant creating with their hands much more than buttons or switches. Sessions were characterized by gnarly, improvisational jams as they tinkered with everything from cassette loops, found sounds, and 808s. Tracks like “Target Offer” and “Fake the Feeling” quake with ear-splitting guitar feedback, while “Pray’r” and “Rats” eschew their groove worship in favor of haunting minimalism. Song after song, Accelerator’s pop influences are traded in for more eccentric frontiers, with the clear common denominators of their first two records being the duo’s spellbinding, funky instincts and a mastery of texture. Lyrically, Like Cartoon Vampires collects dispatches from a dying empire characters are devoured by alienation and vanity, though society doesn’t bat an eye. But make no mistake, these songs are not merely disaffected ennui–music-making and collaboration are intensely emotional practices for The Convenience, and they reflect a shrieking lust for life.

RIYL: Parquet Courts, Vampire Weekend, Spoon, Cate Le Bon, Cola, Video Age, Buzzcocks.

Tracklist: 

1. I Got Exactly What I Wanted 
2. Target Offer
3. Dub Vultures 
4. Pray'r
5. Waiting For A Train
6. Opportunity
7. Café Style 4
8. That's Why I Never Became A Dancer
9. Rats
10. 2022
11. Western Pepsi Cola Town
12. Vanity Shapes
13. Fake The Feeling