Tag Archives: Matador

Interpol: Marauder

Leave a comment

On August 24, 2018, “Matador” label released “Marauder”, the sixth Interpol studio album.  It was recorded December 2017 – April 2018, at “Tarbox Road” in Cassadaga, New York, and was produced by Dave Fridmann.

Personnel:

  • Daniel Kessler – lead guitar
  • Paul Banks – vocals, bass guitar, rhythm guitar
  • Brandon Curtis – keyboards
  • Sam Fogarino – drums, percussion
  • Roger Joseph Manning Jr. – keyboards
  • Dave Fridmann – recording, mixing
  • Michael Fridmann – engineer assistant
  • Greg Calbi – mastering
  • Matt de Jong – artwork
  • Jamie-James Medina – artwork, back photography
  • Elliot Richardson – cover art subject
  • Garry Winogrand – cover art photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Paul Banks, Sam Fogarino and Daniel Kessler.

  1. If You Really Love Nothing
  2. The Rover
  3. Complications
  4. Flight of Fancy
  5. Stay in Touch
  6. Interlude 1
  7. Mountain Child
  8. NYSMAW
  9. Surveillance
  10. Number 10
  11. Party’s Over
  12. Interlude 2
  13. It Probably Matters

Interpol: The Other Side Of Make Believe

Leave a comment

On July 15, 2022, “Matador” label released “The Other Side of Make Believe”, the seventh Interpol studio album. It was recorded September 2021 – January 2022, at “Battery Studios” in London, and was produced by Mark “Fllod” Ellis.

Personnel:

  • Paul Banks – vocals, bass guitar, rhythm guitar
  • Daniel Kessler – lead guitar, piano
  • Sam Fogarino – drums
  • Flood – guest vocals
  • Richie Kennedy – guest vocals
  • Juliet Seger – guest vocals
  • Jacob Tressider – guest vocals
  • Richie Kennedy – recording, additional production
  • Ed Farrell – engineer assistant
  • Tom Herbert – mixing
  • Alan Moulder – mixing, additional production
  • Greg Calbi – mastering
  • Steve Fallone – mastering
  • Jacob Tressider – studio assistant
  • Undercard (Matt de Jong, Jamie-James Medina) – artwork
  • Tim Head – front cover art
  • Nicolas Ortega – rear cover art
  • Atiba Jefferson – photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Paul Banks, Sam Fogarino and Daniel Kessler.

  1. Toni
  2. Fables
  3. Into the Night
  4. Mr. Credit
  5. Something Changed
  6. Renegade Hearts
  7. Passenger
  8. Greenwich
  9. Grand Hotel
  10. Big Shot City
  11. Go Easy (Palermo)

Algiers: The Underside Of Power

Leave a comment

On June 23, 2017, “Matador” label released “The Underside of Power”, the second Algiers studio album. It was recorded June – October 2016, at “Argot Studio”, “Strange Weather” and “Walker Studios”, “Figure 8” in New York, “Goat Farm” in Atlanta, “Real World” in Bath, “Rex Studios” in London, and was produced by Adrian Utley and Ali Chant.

Personnel:

  • Franklin James Fisher – vocals, cello, double bass, drum programming, guitar, keyboards, percussion, piano, sampling, synthesizer, tambourine, Wurlitzer
  • Lee Tesche – cymbals, guitar, harmonium, loop, music box, percussion, prepared guitar, prepared piano, saxophone, synthesizer, backing vocals
  • Ryan Mahan – bass, drum programming, guitar, baritone guitar, sampling, synthesizer, backing vocals
  • Matt Tong – chimes, drones, drums, glockenspiel, guitar, percussion, backing vocals
  • Adrian Utley – drum machine, guitar, Moog bass, synthesizer
  • Ali Chant – guitar, backing vocals
  • Macks Faulkron – guitar, percussion, engineer
  • Ashiya Eastwood – backing vocals
  • Jessica Upton Crowe – backing vocals
  • Travis Ono – backing vocals
  • Alex Weston – engineer
  • Ben Greenberg – engineer, additional production
  • Chris Kyles – engineer
  • Oli Jacobs – engineer
  • Patrick Phillips – engineer
  • Paul Reust – engineer
  • Randall Dunn – mixing
  • Will Smith – mixing assistant
  • Jason Ward – mastering

Track listing:

  1. Walk Like a Panther
  2. Cry of the Martyrs
  3. The Underside of Power
  4. Death March
  5. A Murmur A Sign
  6. Mme Rieux
  7. Cleveland
  8. Animals
  9. Plague Years
  10. Hymn for and Average Man
  11. Bury Me Standing
  12. The Cycle/The Spiral: Time to Go Down Slowly

Water From Your Eyes: Everyone’s Crushed

Leave a comment

On May 26, 2023, “Matador” label released “Everyone’s Crushed”, the sixth Water from Your Eyes album. It was recorded in 2023, and was produced by Nate Amos.

Personnel:

  • Nate Amos – instrumentation
  • Rachel Brown – vocals
  • Howie Weinberg – mastering
  • Nicole Rifkin – cover illustration
  • Molly Styslinger – layout
  • Ana Fangayen – photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Nate Amos and Rachel Brown, except where noted.

  1. Structure
  2. Barley
  3. Out There
  4. Open
  5. Everyone’s Crushed
  6. True Life
  7. Remember Not My Name
  8. 14
  9. Buy My Product

Perfume Genius: Set My Heart On Fire Immediately

Leave a comment

On May 15, 2020, “Matador” label released “Set My Heart on Fire Immediately”, the fifth Perfume Genius studio album. It was recorded 2019 – 2020, at “Sound City” in Van Nuys, California, and was produced by Blake Mills.

Personnel:

  • Mike Hadreas – vocals, synthesizers, Wurlitzer
  • Blake Mills – guitar, bass, synthesizers, drums, glockenspiel, synth guitar, organ, piano, synth drums, harmonium, harmony vocals
  • Alan Wyffels – piano, organ, harpsichord, synthesizers, flute, Wurlitzer, Rhodes, harmony vocals
  • Sam Gendel – synthesizers, saxophone, synth drums, drum machine
  • Pino Palladino – bass
  • Jim Keltner – drums
  • Matt Chamberlain – drums
  • Rob Moose – violin, viola
  • Gabriel Cabezas – cello
  • Phoebe Bridgers – harmony vocals
  • Ethan Gruska – vocals, harmony vocals, percussion
  • Joseph Lorge – engineer
  • Greg Koller – engineer, mixing
  • Patricia Sullivan – mastering
  • Ian Sefchick – mastering
  • Andrew J. S. – art direction
  • Camille Vivier – photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Mike Hadreas, except where noted.

  1. Whole Life
  2. Describe
  3. Without You
  4. Jason
  5. Leave
  6. On the Floor – Mike Hadreas, Alan Wyffels
  7. You Body Changes Everything
  8. Moonbend – Mike Hadreas, Blake Mills
  9. Just a Touch
  10. Nothing at All
  11. One More Try
  12. Some Dream
  13. Borrowed Light

Mdou Moctar: Funeral For Justice

Leave a comment

On May 3, 2024, “Matador” label released “Funeral for Justice”, the sixth Mdou Moctar (Mahamadou Souleymane) album. It was recorded in 2023, at “A home studio” in New York, and was produced by Mikey Coltun.

Personnel:

  • Mdou Moctar (Mahamadou Souleymane) – vocals, lead guitar
  • Ahmoudou Madassane – rhythm guitar, backing vocals
  • Mikey Coltun – bass guitar, guitar, percussion, backing vocals, engineer
  • Souleymane Ibrahim – drums, djembe, backing vocals
  • Seth Manchester – mixing
  • Heba Kadry – mastering
  • Robert Beatty – artwork

Track listing:

All lyrics by Mahamadou Souleymane, all music by Mahamadou Souleymane, Michael Coltun, and Ahmoudou Madassane.

  1. Funeral for Justice
  2. Imouhar
  3. Takoba
  4. Sousoume Tamacheq
  5. Imajighen
  6. Tchinta
  7. Djallo #1
  8. Oh France
  9. Modern Slaves

Lucy Dacus: Historian

Leave a comment

On March 2, 2018, “Matador” label released “Historian”, the second Lucy Dacus studio album. It was recorded in 2017, at “Trace Horse Studio” and “The Smoakstack” in Nashville, Tennessee, “Montrose Studios” in Richmond, Virginia, and was produced by Jacob Blizard, Lucy Dacus and Collin Pastore.

Personnel:

  • Lucy Dacus – vocals, guitars
  • Jake Finch – drums
  • Miles Huffman – drums
  • Sam Koff – trumpet
  • Steve Cunningham – trumpet
  • John Hulley – trombone
  • Reggie Pace – trombone
  • John Mailander – violin
  • Ben Plotnick – viola
  • Collin Pastore – engineer
  • Scottie Prudhoe – engineer
  • Preston Cochran – engineer
  • Adrian Olsen – engineer
  • John Congleton – mixing
  • Heba Kadry – mastering

Track listing:

All tracks by Lucy Dacus.

  1. Night Shift
  2. Addictions
  3. The Shell
  4. Nonbeliever
  5. Yours & Mine
  6. Body to Flame
  7. Timefighter
  8. Next of Kin
  9. Pillar of Truth
  10. Historians

King Krule: Man Alive!

Leave a comment

On February 21, 2020, “True Panther Sounds”, “XL Recordings”, and “Matador”, labels released “Man Alive!” the fourth Archy Marshall studio album, and his third album under the stage name King Krule. It was recorded in 2019, and was produced by Archy Marshall and Dilip Harris.

Personnel:

  • King Krule (Archy Marshall) – vocals, guitar, bass, synthesizers, keyboards, drum programming, mixing
  • James Wilson – bass 
  • George Bass – drums, percussion
  • Ignacio Salvadores – saxophone, backing vocals
  • Yassin – backing vocals
  • Jack Towell – vocoder
  • Dilip Harris – mixing
  • Guy Davie – mastering
  • Jack Marshall – album art

Track listing:

All tracks by Archy Marshall.

  1. Cellular
  2. Supermarché
  3. Stoned Again
  4. Comet Face
  5. The Dream
  6. Perfecto Miserable
  7. Alone, Omen 3
  8. Slinky
  9. Airport Antenatal Airplane
  10. (Don’t Let the Dragon) Draag On
  11. Theme for the Cross
  12. Underclass
  13. Energy Fleets
  14. Please Complete Thee

Thinking Fellers Union: lovelyville

Leave a comment

On December 12, 1991, “Matador” label released “Lovelyville”, the third Thinking Fellers Union studio album. It was recorded in 1991, at “Lowdown Studios” in San Francisco, and was produced by Greg Freeman, Paul Bergmann, Mark Davies, Anne Eickelberg, Brian Hageman, Jay Paget and Hugh Swarts.

Personnel:

  • Hugh Swarts – vocals, guitar
  • Brian Hageman – vocals, guitar, viola, tape, mandolin
  • Mark Davies – vocals, bass guitar, guitar, Casio synthesizer, drums, euphonium, trombone
  • Anne Eickelberg – vocals, bass guitar
  • Paul Bergmann – drums
  • Jay Paget – drums
  • Paul Bergmann – accordion
  • Margaret Murray – oboe, illustrations
  • Chris Clougherty – clarinet
  • David Tholfsen – contrabass clarinet
  • Greg Freeman – engineer
  • Chas Nielsen – illustrations

Track listing:

All tracks by Paul Bergmann, Mark Davies, Anne Eickelberg, Brian Hageman, Jay Paget and Hugh Swarts, except where noted.

  1. Four O’ Clocker 2
  2. Not This World
  3. Nail in the Head
  4. Green Eyed Lady – Jerry Corbetta, Dave Riordian
  5. Mother Uncle Delicious Tasty
  6. Streets Vibrated With the Traffic and the Power Tool
  7. Mark My Words
  8. Push
  9. More Glee
  10. Big Hands
  11. The Marshall
  12. Sinking Boats
  13. Motorin’ Flarey Jenkins
  14. 2 x4s
  15. Nothing Solid
  16. Maverick
  17. Wonderbread Display
  18. The Meat Display
  19. Strife Is Good
  20. The Marshall’s Boont’s
  21. The World Is Changing for Good
  22. The Demise of Craig
  23. Horrible Hour

Bar Italia: The Twits

Leave a comment

On November 3, 2023, “Matador” label released “The Twits”, the fourth Bar Italia studio album. It was recorded February – April 2023, at band’s home studio in Mallorca, Spain, and was produced by Nina Cristante, Jezmi Fehmi and Sam Fenton.

Personnel:

  • Nina Cristante – vocals, engineer
  • Sam Fenton – vocals, guitar, engineer
  • Jezmi Taril Fehmi – vocals, guitar
  • Marta Salogni – mixing
  • Matt Colton – mastering

Track listing:

All tracks are written by Nina Cristante, Jezmi Fehmi, and Sam Fenton.

  1. My Little Tony
  2. Real House Wibes (Desperate House Vibes)
  3. Twist
  4. World’s Greatest Emoter
  5. Calm Down with Me
  6. Shoo
  7. Que Surprise
  8. Hi Fiver
  9. Brush w Faith
  10. Glory Hunter
  11. Sounds Like You Had to Be There
  12. Jelsy
  13. Bibs