Margot & the Nuclear So and So's - Sling Shot to Heaven - Rock - CD

SLING SHOT TO HEAVEN, Margot & the Nuclear So and So's 5th studio album, was recorded in the studio that the band built a decade ago with the advance received from their debut album, THE DUST OF RETREAT. The entirety of the new release was recorded on 2' tape with nary a computer in sight and produced by the band. Consistent with their successful approach of self-releasing music since 2008's ANIMAL! / NOT ANIMAL (Epic), SLING SHOT TO HEAVEN will be released on the band's own label, Mariel Recording Company. Edwards' goal for the band's fifth album was to 'make a record that came across like a sci-fi dream about my decade of touring and making records obsessively while slowly becoming an adult or at least something vaguely resembling one.'

Chicago-based songwriter Richard Edwards and the loosely collected group of his friends making up various incarnations of Margot & the Nuclear So and So's have been bringing his songs to life since 2005, moving from meticulous chamber pop styles into more Americana and blue-collar rock-leaning moods with later albums. Sling Shot to Heaven is the fifth full-length from the band, put to 2" analog tape over a series of months in the group's home studio. As Edwards and the band neared a decade of touring, recording, and prolific output as a hard-working indie rock outfit, themes of adulthood and reflection fill the album, making it a more mature and patient statement than we've heard from the band previously. The sweetness of long-term partnership and love is touched on in "When You're Gone," while "Go to Sleep You Little Creep" is a coy but touching dialogue between a rambunctious son avoiding bedtime and a weary father trying to wind down after a hard day of work. Edwards reflects on the restlessness of youth and his history of hard traveling, ruminating on these things as memories of a different time. Musically, the album follows the same stylistic trends of fourth album Rot Gut, Domestic, turning in bright production and thoughtful lighter-toned introspective indie rock modes A la Wilco or Ryan Adams. The home-recorded pace of the album comes through in the considered production choices of the songs, with each subtle turn sounding deliberate but not overthought. The result is a relaxed, conversational album with stronger songs than some of the band's earlier efforts, looking over concepts of aging gracefully without succumbing to the cliches that often come along with such trains of thought. ~ Fred Thomas, Rovi

Performer	Margot & the Nuclear So and So's
Music genre	Rock
Media format	CD
Has parental advisory label	N
Number of discs	1
Track listing	Hello, San Francisco, When You're Gone, Long Legged Blonde Memphis, Bleary-Eye-D Blue, Lazy, Flying Saucer Blues, Los Angeles, Gettin Fat, Go to Sleep You Little Creep, I Don't, Swallowing Light Beams, I Can't Sleep My Eyes Are Flat, Wedding Song
Record label	Mariel Recording Co.
Music producer	Margot & the Nuclear So and So's
Number in series	5
Occasion	Wedding
Track name	Hello, San Francisco, When You're Gone, Flying Saucer Blues
Digital audio file format	CD
Music media format	CD
Is edited	N
Is enhanced	N