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  • Label: Narnack Records
  • Label Type: indie
  • About:
    Indie rock buried in fuzz and hiss. Iran take ultra catchy pop, and drag it through the detritus of lo-fi noise rock, picking up an ungodly assortment of buzz and blur and scuzz. Imagine a Pavement record on Siltbreeze. Or Sebadoh, if Lou Barlow was a jaded fuck instead of a sappy romantic. Or old Smog covering Skullflower. Or Harry Pussy playing Built To Spill. A beautifully cacophonous mess. Iran play damaged folk music, bombarded on all sides by a wild assortment of squeals and shrieks, static and hiss, and speaker clogging grit. Huge and slowly shifting, dronescapes that evolve into perfect little pop songs and then explode into jagged shards of high end skree. Iran are psychedelic and textural and noisey and totally catchy. Add an unhealthy obsession with Brian Wilson, Roman Polanski, indie rock, and Norwegian black metal, a handful of disasterously deafening live shows, and a charmingly fractured obstinance, and you've got Iran. Hardcore hook-filled low fidelity un-pop noise. Pop. Plus fucking wicked tiger cover art. The Moon Boys is the second missive from San Francisco's premier NOISEPOP band, not 'noise pop' in the jangly-pop-punk-San-Francisco-festival-tight-pants-slacker-next-big-thing-major-label-bidding-war-rehashed-bullshit sense but in the gorgeous-pop-songs-buried-under-a-thick-splattery-wall-of-buzz-hum-whir-skree-guitars-set-on-self-destruct-Beatles-flitered-through-Skullflower sense. Like Sebadoh or Pavement being backed up by Throbbing Gristle or Whitehouse. Or Nurse With Wound fronted by Elliott Smith. If you get our drift. For record number two, IRAN has scaled back the noise just a bit and let the pop shine through. And shine it does. Gorgeous, heart-breaking, voice-cracking lo-fi love (and un-love) songs, delivered in a wavery falsetto, over gentle guitars, naive drumming and strange but wonderful backgrounds woven from vocals, amp hum, guitar buzz, as well as rumbling low end and squealing feedback. When the noise does kick in, it's not noise for noise sake, Iran handle the squirming serpent with a deft hand, molding gorgeous sonic squalls and speaker shredding skree from overdriven amps and detuned guitars, with buried melodies and strange and mysterious rhythms laying beneath the storm, like looking through a murky pond at the secret life below. Adventurous indie rockers could very well be looking at their new favorite band, and experimetal/avant garde-niks may just find themselves developing a pop sweet tooth.

    Iran to Release Third Album
    DISSOLVER

    Fans of experimental noise-popsters Iran know that seeing them is even rarer than catching a glimpse of the reclusive Jeff Mangum, but those fans will soon have cause to celebrate. Sort of. The quartet of singer/multi-instrumentalist Aaron Aites, guitarist Kyp Malone (TV on the Radio), guitarist/bassist Peter Hoffman (The Mendoza Line), and guitarist Aaron Romanello (Grand Mal), will be releasing their 3rd LP, DISSOLVER, Feb. 3rd, 2009. Produced by David Sitek, the album was recorded at Gigantic Studios in Tribeca. Speaking with Pitchfork by phone last Friday, Aites described the new album as "very hi-fi", and "more structured" and "fully fleshed out" than their previous two outings, Iran and The Moon Boys. He also said it's more lyric-based (in the vein of The Moon Boys), with material sounding "louder and grimmer." They will be releasing the single for "Buddy", digitally Nov. 4th, 2008 along with "Isolation"-a John Lennon cover, and "Airport 77'". The track listing for DISSOLVER is as follows:

    1. I Can See the Future
    2. Buddy
    3. I Already Know You're Wrong
    4. Airport '79
    5. Baby Let's Get High One Last Time Together
    6. Digital Clock and Phone
    7. Where I'm Going
    8. Cape Canaveral / Buddy Reprise
    9. Can I Feel What?
    10. Evil Summer

    *TOUR DATES*:

    MARCH 6th- MERCURY LOUNGE IN NYC-SOLD OUT

    MARCH 21st- SXSW IN AUSTIN, TX

    *PURCHASE "DISSOLVER"* ON ITUNES

    *DISSOLVER IS AVAILABLE AT A STORE NEAR YOU!*

    ~See What the Blogs have to Say:

    Spin

    eMusic

    Woxy-Futurist

    CMJ News Blast

    A.V. Club

    Slant Magazine

    Idio Mag

    Blender

    QRO Magazine

    Pop Matters

    Metromix

    Each Note Secure

    Exclaim!

    Alt Music

    All Music

    Too Cool To Die

    Evil Monito

    Austin Town Hall

    Indie Blips

    Muzzle of Bees

    Short and Sweet NYC

    Distort Distort

    *"Dissolver" listed as one of the most anticipated album of '09 on Weekend*:
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    DOWNLOAD Iran's new single "I CAN SEE THE FUTURE" off "Dissolver" at:

    RCRD LBL

    CMJ News Blast

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    *IRAN'S "BUDDY" EP IS OUT THROUGH DIGITAL RELEASE ONLY*

    DOWNLOAD ON ITUNES

    DOWNLOAD ON EMUSIC

    ~See What the Blogs Have to Say:

    Pitchfork

    Stereogum

    Pitchfork #2

    Paper Mag

    Wired Blog

    Prefix Mag

    New York Magazine

    Coachella Buzz Board

    ~Check out Iran's "Buddy" EP Political Trailer on Youtube

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    UPDATES:

    -"Dissolver" will be reviewed in the upcoming print editions of Blender, Billboard, Death & Taxes, Dusted, Filter, Good Music Guide, Prefix, Tiny Mix Tapes, Under the Radar, Spin and URB.

    -Iran will be featured on eMusic, Geek, Self-Titled, The Agit Reader, Paper, Spin BuzzCatcher & The Red Alert in February.

    -Iran will be Myspace's Featured Artist in February.

    -"Dissolver" will be streamed on AOL Spinner, Largehearted Boy & MSN.

    -Iran will be playing The American Apparel Showcase at SxSw.

    -Iran will be playing the Mercury Lounge in New York on March 6th with the Handsome Furs.

    -Iran will go on tour in March and April 2009.

    -Aaron Aites was interviewed on MTV's Subterranean's Podcast in December.

    -Iran's "Buddy" was featured on MTV Subterranean's Podcast on November 10th.
  • Members:
    Kyp Malone (TvotR) - Guitarist
    Aaron Aites - Guitarist, Vocals
  • Member Since: 2009-02-19