Album Notes

***"Grind" featured on KALX-FM's Next Big Thing show (Berkeley, 90.7 FM)
*** Airplay on KUSF-FM (San Francisco), KDVS-FM (Davis, CA), WCBN-FM (Ann Arbor, MI) and numerous podcasts.

With influences ranging from modern indie rock and post-punk to the instrumental avant-garde of late 70's Eno/Bowie and film soundtracks of Lalo Schifrin, Retro Carnival's driving pulse, "wall of sound" production and keen experimentation create a sound that is edgy and unique. Muscular rhythms lay the foundation for an assembly line of guitar effects, processed voices, world percussion, synthesizer bursts, strings, honks and pop culture bytes. Unexpected momentum shifts, exploratory tangents and sonic surprises reward with listener new discoveries on each replay.

Featured on KALX-FM's (UC Berkeley) Next Big Thing show, the post-punk "Grind" layers rootsy guitar strums on pounding drums, then breaks into an open-air chorus with soaring guitar peaks. "Yeah" pulls out of a menacing verse with a piercing guitar motif iced on a pulsating rhythm. Whether it is the post-grunge swagger of "Women of 70's," the desert odyssey of "Road Americana," or the 4th-of-July-concert-with-the-beer-buddies sim of "Southern Fried," Retro Carnival charges along like a well-oiled machine, and embraces the spirit of random discovery.