Portions For Foxes Promotions: Parts and Labor, Friday 5th October @ Independent, Sunderland

Brooklyn based Parts and Labor will be bloodying Independent, Sunderland's nose with a noise-anthem suckerpunch in October. It'll no doubt be a hit with the art-rock scene in the North-East. Portions for Foxes are always trying to take a step up from previous success and we're sure a band as boundary smashing as Parts and Labor will give us a push in the right direction.

The band is out on tour in the UK with their fourth LP on Jagjaguwar/Brah Records. Since its release in June Mapmaker has gone down a storm with the likes of Pitchforkmedia.com; describing it as an album of “uptempo noise punk with the irrepressible drums of Chris Weingarten, blurting and squealing keyboards to replace guitars, and the vocals always set to a strident, monotone bellow.” This is an album that offers a fine balance between “Frenetic drumming and counterpoint keyboard squeals” with churning sections of “simmering tension”.

On record this is a band that somehow manages to make distance seem close. It swirls around the room, catching you off-guard from all angles leaving unsure whether to dance around like you are at a punk-rock show or kick-back and float off on a rumbling storm-cloud.

A live performance by this energetic trio is more than likely to have its crowd unable to resist a bit of schizophrenic combustion-and there’s certainly plenty of room to do that on Independent’s sizeable floor space.

click for:

Parts And Labor Myspace

Parts And Labor Official

Reccomended for fans of:

Battles, !!!, Lightning Bolt, Husker Du, Neutral Milk Hotel, Battles

Press Sez:

“Brilliant sustained Noise-Rock…. Minimalists with a monumental impact”

-The New York Times

“Fist-pumping choruses and chaos; the sense of a song not just being sung, but being hurled over the side of a mountain.”

-Chicago Tribune

“What Parts and Labor have figured out how to do, in a way no one else really has, is to make noise anthemic.”

-Pitchfork Media