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Although Promises Promises was released in the States by the same small indie label that handled their self-titled debut, in their native New Zealand Die! Die! Die! is now signed to major-label behemoth Universal. Similarly, in place of Steve Albini, who engineered the debut, Promises Promises is considerably more slickly produced by Shayne Carter, leader of the vintage NZ indie band the Straitjacket Fits. Between these two changes, Promises Promises sounds almost like the work of an entirely different band. Dropping most of the hardcore influences of the debut in favor of a considerably more melodic and less aggressive alt-rock sound, Promises Promises may be a disappointment to some of the trio's more doctrinaire early fans, but with the increased gloss and decreased spleen comes a better handle on both songwriting and arrangement. The outstanding "Britomart Sunset" features a far more confident use of Pixies-like quiet-LOUD-quiet dynamics than before, as well as a killer driving bass riff by Lachlan Anderson. Elsewhere, the downright poppy "Sideways, Here We Come" features a wordless falsetto refrain and a further exploration of the Franz Ferdinand-style dance-rock rhythms that were hinted at on the debut. It may be considerably more commercial than their first album, but Promises Promises is, crucially, also much, much better. ~ Stewart Mason
Die! Die! Die!: Lachlan Anderson, Michael Prain, Andrew Wilson .CMJ - "[I]t feels more stripped down, with excitingly visceral, un-overtly lo-fi production."
Clash (magazine) (p.105) - "[T]he pulled notes of 'White Horses' make this charming noise-pop a melodically rewarding listen, luring all purveyors of danger rock into this spine-crunchingly raw and bloody brilliant second helping." Promises Promises Music | List Price | $14.98 (You save $4.39) | | Category | Rock/Pop Albums, Rock CDs, Hard Rock | | Label | Safehouse (Soh) | | Orig Year | 2007 | | All Time Sales Rank |  226388  | | CD Universe Part number | 7560372 | | Catalog number | 20 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Feb 05, 2008 | | Studio/Live | Studio | | Mono/Stereo | Stereo | | Producer | Shayne Carter; Shayne Carter | | Engineer | Kevin McMahon; Kevin McMahon | | Recording Time | 39 minutes |
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Simon Shapiro Sydney based Independent singersongwriter.Hailing from Sydney Australia Simon has been writing songs since he was 8 yrs old and performing and recording for over 20yr2007 was a productive and successful year for Simon Shapiro. Simon won The APRA Songwriters Award in November 2007 at the Musicoz awards for 'What a Day', and was also nominated for Best Pop artist. In August 2007, 'Anything to Anyone', won best RockIndie song at the 27th ASA (Australian songwriters association) awards, where Simon also won the major award being named 'Songwriter of the year'. This song also won the pop category of the U. S 'Song of the year' competition for September and is in the running for the major awards in March 2008. This year has started in a similar fashion, with a share in the Gold prize at the Park City Film Music Festival in America and an Invitation to perform at the Cape May singersongwriter Festival in New Jersey. Simon has also been booked as SingerBass player in the house band on popular TV show the Channel Nine Footy Show- every Thursday night from March To October 2008. 'City Talks', from Simon's upcoming album, features in Helicon Arts production 'YESTERDAY WAS A LIE', a full-feature noir film from award winning American writerdirector James Kerwin. The film won the top prize at this years Park City Music in Film Festival(part of the Sundance film festival) Jan 2008. Simon's debut solo album, 'Between the Noise' has been a labour of love for Simon and renowned producer Lindsay Rimes for the past year, and will be released independently early 2008. Simon's side-project KisTone has been creating plenty of attention including performances on MTV in October and coming 2nd in the national 'Nokia Beheard' competition. On the live scene, Simon played seven shows to thousands of people at last years Royal Easter ...
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