Album Notes

Product Description
"A superior sense of melody and a confident use of the indie genre's noise, silence, and weirdness" writes Gaffa Magazine. Racetrack Babies' recipe is simple: Add a dose of indie pioneers (such as Dinosaur Jr., Pixies, Madrugada and Sonic Youth); mix with a generous amount of John Agnello (producer and mixer for many artists, including Patti Smith, Steve Wynn, Dinosaur Jr.). And last but not least, sprinkle with songwriter and lead singer Hans Christian Wayne's Scandinavian creativity, and voila, you've got "Summer Salt Santiago".

Review
The road to an album is paved with hard work, doubt, and suffering. At least that is how many bands describe the process, and that is why it is such a relief to learn that Racetrack Babies just took 30 songs with them to the studio and quickly recorded the ten they felt the strongest for. The quartet did not do it to tell a different story, but to capture what they call the "magic of creating". To say that the album is magic might be going too far, but just like their previous album, "Summer Salt Santiago" uses a superior sense of melody and a confident use of the indie genre's noise, silence and weirdness. Add to that Hans Christian Wayne's talk-whine-stoned vocal, which in technical terms is nothing special, but here it makes very good sense. In a few places, the album is idle, but luckily it does not happen so often that the perception of the album is compromised. The perception of the album is sharp and strong - magic or no magic. Jeppe Krogsgaard Christensen --Gaffa Magazine, Denmark