Artist:   The Answering Machine
Title:    Lifeline
Label:    Heist Or Hit
Genre:    Indie
Bitrate:  201kbit av.
Time:     00:44:39
Size:     67.52 mb
Rip Date: 2011-02-19
Str Date: 2011-02-21

01. My Little Navy                                                3:41
02. Lifeline                                                      4:20
03. Animal                                                        3:49
04. 3 Miles                                                       4:12
05. Romantic And Square                                           2:32
06. Anything Anything                                             5:23
07. Hospital Lung                                                 3:38
08. Rules                                                         4:42
09. Video 8                                                       4:19
10. So Alive                                                      4:22
11. The End                                                       3:41

Release Notes:

Recorded throughout the spring of 2010 by frontman and first time
producer Martin Colclough, 'Lifeline' is the album that everybody
believed The Answering Machine could make. A departure and a knowing
deviation from the sound that established the band on 2009's angular
debut 'Another City, Another Sorry', 'Lifeline' is a unique,
intelligent and diverse LP. Stylistically extensive, the album clicks
between moments of post rock magnificence to glitch-driven programming;
at once inhaling a varied catalogue of influences and exhaling a body
of work that will top End of Year polls.

After working with producers from London and New York, writing songs in
Tokyo, demoing in sky scrapers and honing ideas in Brooklyn, it became
obvious that 'home' was the perfect place to pull 'Lifeline' together.
The clichΘ goes that record producers are the so-called 'fifth member'
of the band but Manchester's The Answering Machine decided to keep
things simple and opted for an actual member of the band to produce
their second album. After several successful remix projects, frontman
Martin Colclough decided to step up to the role. What followed was not
an expensive studio, engineers or remote location; instead the band
opted for their underground practice room in the city centre. From six
feet under they emerged with their lifeline.

While journalists stalked the streets murmuring buzz words and hailing
the new 'Manchester scene' The Answering Machine were hard to find.
They were in fact below the city campaigning for change, creating a
record that is far removed from people's expectations of them, peeling
all the layers of what journalists and fans had deemed them to be and
avoiding being caught up in any industry onslaught on their city. They
stand alone and by doing so have rediscovered themselves, their
identity and uncovered a new sound. Central to this regeneration has
been the acquisition of a number of vintage synths passed down from the
Factory Records band 'Repetition'. These, along with pump organs and
acoustic guitars, opened up a new and more collaborative way of writing
for the band.

There are no gimmicks, stories or press angles for The Answering
Machine on their second album campaign. This is because what the band
have created and achieved is truly remarkable and therefore the ONLY
thing worth writing about. Musically eclectic, textural and complex,
lyrically sophisticated, honest and striking 'Lifeline#39; is a very
special record; the first great record of 2011. It documents a band
reborn, a band who have taken the model of Radiohead and The Beatles
before them, determined to make a record that sounds nothing like their
last. They have succeeded with a grace and elegance all of their own.



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Artist:   The Answering Machine
Title:    Lifeline
Label:    Heist Or Hit
Genre:    Indie
Bitrate:  201kbit av.
Time:     00:44:39
Size:     67.52 mb
Rip Date: 2011-02-19
Str Date: 2011-02-21

01. My Little Navy                                                3:41
02. Lifeline                                                      4:20
03. Animal                                                        3:49
04. 3 Miles                                                       4:12
05. Romantic And Square                                           2:32
06. Anything Anything                                             5:23
07. Hospital Lung                                                 3:38
08. Rules                                                         4:42
09. Video 8                                                       4:19
10. So Alive                                                      4:22
11. The End                                                       3:41

Release Notes:

Recorded throughout the spring of 2010 by frontman and first time
producer Martin Colclough, 'Lifeline' is the album that everybody
believed The Answering Machine could make. A departure and a knowing
deviation from the sound that established the band on 2009's angular
debut 'Another City, Another Sorry', 'Lifeline' is a unique,
intelligent and diverse LP. Stylistically extensive, the album clicks
between moments of post rock magnificence to glitch-driven programming;
at once inhaling a varied catalogue of influences and exhaling a body
of work that will top End of Year polls.

After working with producers from London and New York, writing songs in
Tokyo, demoing in sky scrapers and honing ideas in Brooklyn, it became
obvious that 'home' was the perfect place to pull 'Lifeline' together.
The cliché goes that record producers are the so-called 'fifth member'
of the band but Manchester's The Answering Machine decided to keep
things simple and opted for an actual member of the band to produce
their second album. After several successful remix projects, frontman
Martin Colclough decided to step up to the role. What followed was not
an expensive studio, engineers or remote location; instead the band
opted for their underground practice room in the city centre. From six
feet under they emerged with their lifeline.

While journalists stalked the streets murmuring buzz words and hailing
the new 'Manchester scene' The Answering Machine were hard to find.
They were in fact below the city campaigning for change, creating a
record that is far removed from people's expectations of them, peeling
all the layers of what journalists and fans had deemed them to be and
avoiding being caught up in any industry onslaught on their city. They
stand alone and by doing so have rediscovered themselves, their
identity and uncovered a new sound. Central to this regeneration has
been the acquisition of a number of vintage synths passed down from the
Factory Records band 'Repetition'. These, along with pump organs and
acoustic guitars, opened up a new and more collaborative way of writing
for the band.

There are no gimmicks, stories or press angles for The Answering
Machine on their second album campaign. This is because what the band
have created and achieved is truly remarkable and therefore the ONLY
thing worth writing about. Musically eclectic, textural and complex,
lyrically sophisticated, honest and striking 'Lifeline#39; is a very
special record; the first great record of 2011. It documents a band
reborn, a band who have taken the model of Radiohead and The Beatles
before them, determined to make a record that sounds nothing like their
last. They have succeeded with a grace and elegance all of their own.



This NFO File was rendered by NFOmation.net