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Update #9: Fond Farewell
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Update #8: PoppinHissinScratchin :/ If it's not one thing, it's your mother
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Update #7: Making the Record
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Update #6: TWENTY, TWENTY, TWENTY-FOUR HOURS TO GO-Oh-Oh, (I wanna be funded)
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Update #5: Nashville Party Tonight
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Update #4: Homestretch Secret Track for Backers
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Update #3: Oh My July
Hello folks,
This is gonna be a staggeringly great month! We can feel it, just two days in.
On top of waking up too late, daytrips canoeing and some wonderful sweltering nights spent gettin loud and proud in our Nashville garage, the impossible task of releasing this record is becoming more and more possible!
You're support is tremendously appreciated.
To thank ya proper I'm gonna post a new tune on one of these updates soon, for your ears only. The band is really excited to be making some new music and can't wait to share it with y'all.
What's everyone doing for July 4th? (Neil, I expect you'll be flying the Union Jack and pining the decline of the British Empire) I'll be setting sail on the little Harpeth river. Gotta dig out the ole fishin pole and harmonica! Let me know if you wanna join the armada and your own plans at http://www.facebook.com/theZutAlors
Please share http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/TheZutAlors/the-zut-alors-present-boy-girl-party with your friends ... still a long way to row!
♥,
Nick
the Zut Alors
Update #2: Wowsers
The Kickstarter staff kindly recommended our project among "projects that we like, and we think you will too. They showcase creativity and passion. We think they're brilliant."
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/by/recommended
Thanks everyone for your interest and generosity!
Now, recommend it to your friends! ...
yours,
the Zut Alors
Update #1: here we go
YEAH, we've launched this muthabitch! There's no stopping her now.
Much love and thanks to Kat, for providing our first pledge!
Just realized something here on the kickstarter page... we can upload audio/video to these updates! We'll have to post a new song or something from the album for backers of the BOY GIRL PARTY project to hear! Maybe some embarrassing demos, B-sides (C-sides / D-Sides) and 'singing in the shower' caterwauling too.
Stay tuned,
thanks for reading.
yours,
the Zut Alors
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The French have an expression, "zut, alors!" that registers surprise, the equivalent of "dang!" or, in this case, "this new band could set the sun itself on fire! ... where did they come from and what do they want with us?"
You see, the Zut Alors' sound is unlike anything else coming out of Nashville, sweeping modern indie-tronica, but with all the come ons of rearview-gazers like fellow French pop zealots Broadcast or Screamadelica-era Primal Scream. More than just retro-futurist fetishism, however, the brainchild of Nick Bennett has its roots in classic songwriting, with absorbed influences cooler than the other side of your pillow. Aesthetically savvy, too, it's almost as if they were created entirely on paper, and then fleshed out according to some kind of divinity.
The fateful origins of their cinematic, post-C86 dance-rock were humble, however, with Bennett and a few friends e-mailing bits of songs back and forth in the spring of '09. Using whatever instruments were around -- Wurlitzer, archtop, pedal steel, theremin -- and shoestring recording methods including Garageband and VCR tape, they quickly and independently wrote, recorded and released their debut, the ZUT ALORS! EP. The first song, "The Killing Kind", which the Nashville Scene would call "one of the best tracks to emerge from Nashville in 2009", was conceived and put to tape in just one night. It's emblematic of the instant karma that has built the band, and the good vibes that have carried them quickly from bedroom-pop hopefuls to the vanguard of the internationally in vogue local scene.
At that breakneck pace, 2010 looks to be the year of the Zut Alors, as they take their first tour beyond the friendly confines of Nashville and prepare a proper full-length record.
- Andrew J. Smithson
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“'The Killing Kind' is one of the best tracks to emerge from Nashville in 2009."
- Nashville SCENE
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"organic, gritty, emotional and therefore fascinatingly, uniquely appealing"
- Vintage Guitar Magazine, January 2010
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"Dark indie-electronica that’s absolutely delectable."
- Cecilia Jarebäck
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