Presents, by American Cream Band

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1.	Sirens 02:46	buy track
2.	Dr. Doctor 04:47	buy track
3.	Banana 02:30	buy track
4.	Royal Tears 04:29 video	buy track
5.	Birds Don't Try 02:20	buy track
6.	Taste What We Taste 04:38	buy track
7.	Suave In Ultra Pink 02:47	buy track
8.	Words Would Handcuff Us 03:42	buy track

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At once a spiritually-charged journey and a shit-kicking party record, American Cream Band comes to Quindi covering all the bases.

American Cream Band was formed by Twin-Cities musician Nathan Nelson around 10 years ago, taking the form of improvised live shows and albums Frankensteined from these sessions into exultant, fully-formed records you can sink your teeth into. The trick with improvised music is to start with intentions, however abstract they might be, and Nelson leads his rolling cast of collaborators into the creative fray with subtle guidance which drives the impulsive musical moment forward.

The band’s previous records have manifested on labels like Moon Glyph and Medium Sound, and now Presents arrives in a freewheeling flash of snappy new wave, skronky sax, call and response sass and some krautrock-minded sonic cosmology. The album came together in December 2021, when Nelson took ten musicians to legendary studio Pachyderm in Cannon Falls, Minnesota. Living together, eating together, and with Nelson quietly setting up his low-key magick intentions around Jupiter’s planetary frequency and the studio’s abundance of elephant statues and carpets, they laid down some drum-heavy sessions that became the building blocks of the record.

‘Taste What We Taste’ is the perfect example of an exuberant groove pounded on skins as a vessel for a joyous get-down, with the singers and players free to freak out on top. Nelson remains at the centre of the melee, throwing half-sardonic, half-heartfelt calls out for connection. ‘Banana’ celebrates nonsense and holds down the most serious of beats - a disco-not-disco deadeye dripping in late night sleaze and lysergic potential. On ‘Royal Tears’, the jagged guitar chops call back to Gang Of Four, while the hot n’ heavy sax from Cole Pulice baits James Chance and all the other angular New York un-jazz misfits.

Amongst his other implied intentions for the recordings, Nelson wanted to channel opposites, not least the distinct male-female energies in his vocal sparring with the girls on assistance duties. It wouldn’t be right to call them backing singers as they shoot back at his punchy mantras, bringing a certain fierce femininity that tips its hat to The B-52’s Cindy Wilson and Kate Pierson, not to mention iconic post-punk bands like Au Pairs, Delta 5 and Bush Tetras.

There’s space for the dreamier kosmische which has crept into the American Cream oeuvre in the past, as ‘Sirens’ opens the album up in a swirling pond of rag tag percussion and molten synths. ‘Words Would Handcuff Us’ cools the whole riotous assembly down in unmoored perfection, a strung-out Bossa nova seance dusted with celestial drips from analogue spaceships.

Equally treading the line between light and dark, conscious and unconscious, the sacred and profane, Presents is a life-affirming, creep-under-the-skin listening experience – a joyously transient chapter in the evolution of American Cream Band.

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released September 15, 2023

Presence was recorded and mixed by Nick Tveitbakk at Pachyderm Studios with the exception of 'Sirens', which was recorded by Eric Kramlinger at Quincy Street Studios and mixed by Luke Tweedy at Flat Black Studios. Editing and additional recording by Nathan Nelson at Earth 2. Mastering by Dave Gardner at Infrasonic Sound. Lyrics and arrangements by Nathan Nelson.

The following people contributed to the making of this record and without whom it would not have been possible:

Nic & Quindi, Pete Biasi, Marissa Galan, Liz Buhmann, Sophia Deutsch, Cole Pulice, Adam Patterson, Mat Heinrich, Alex Achen, Andy Rockwood, Adam Marx, Meg Ashling, Sho Nikado, Michael Gallope, Joe Berns, Jason Edmonds and Nick Tveitbakk.

Designed by Hannah M. Haugberg. Cover photo by Colin Simmons.

Vinyl manufactured at R.A.N.D. Muzik, Leipzig, Germany.

C+P Quindi Records 2023

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American Cream Band Saint Paul, Minnesota

American Cream Band is a love letter to existence posted as the Universe's yelp review. A walk in the garden blanketed in discarded whippet canisters. Melodies act as lonely pieces of plastic scanning the ocean in search of the floating islands where all their friends are at. Eternal trash that longs to be useful again. Dracula's cape is a Dasani label. ... more

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