Album Notes

Since their formation in 2004, New York’s Freshkills have become a formidable name in avant-hardcore from coast to coast. Their caustic combination of deadpan wit and an unrelenting barrage of heavy rhythms and immediate hooks is delivered with style and swagger both on their new
album and in their live shows.

In the summer of 2004, Freshkills toured the west coast and southwest with popular hardcore band The Plot to Blow Up The Eiffel Tower to the acclaim of critics and fans. In the meantime, Freshkills have returned to their home base in Williamsburg, Brooklyn and continue to deliver crowd-thrilling and unpredictable live shows with such national acts such as Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Blond Redhead, Fiery Furnaces, TV on the Radio and Diamond Nights - in venues across the Atlantic Northeast.

In 2005, Freshkills recorded at Williamsburg’s Studio G with Joel Hamilton (Frank Black, Unsane, Tom Waits). Lead singer Zachary Lipez’s strange (and strangely beautiful) lyrics are showcased perfectly against Tim Murray’s elegantly sparse rhythm guitar, but his convulsive delivery and Johnny Raubert’s frenzied lead keep the overall effect from approaching anything you’d put your kids to sleep with. In their catchiest song, “Hands Up,” Johnny’s back-up vocals could put a choir of schoolgirls to shame, while the colossal rhythm section of Bill Miller and Jim Paradise
(bass and drums, respectively) would send them home crying. While the Freshkills’ sound is often compared to such acts as Nation of Ulysses, Fugazi, At The Drive-In, and Drive Like Jehu, bands known for their intelligence and inventiveness, it is their raw power and drunken honesty
that makes them a great band.