Memory Thirteen, by Dead Bandit

Memory Thirteen

by Dead Bandit

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Thomas Beers An incredible piece of art, love it from start to finish.
Dead Bandit has made a remarkable album with so much variety.
Can't stop listening to it!

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Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
Pressed on 140g black vinyl with artwork by Karolina Kołodziej.

Limited to 130 copies housed in a solid plastic case, including back artwork in foldout cover with 8-page booklet.

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1.	Two Clocks 03:49	buy track
2.	Memory Thirteen 04:42	buy track
3.	Blackbird 03:01	buy track
4.	Circus 03:47	buy track
5.	Staircase 03:30	buy track
6.	Peel Me An Orange 04:20 video	buy track
7.	Quickscene 02:02	buy track
8.	Somewhere To Wait 03:50	buy track
9.	Revelstoke 03:10	buy track
10.	Wabansia 03:38	buy track
11.	Perfume 02:08	buy track
12.	Blowing Kisses 04:38	buy track
13.	Across The Road 02:34	buy track

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Three years on from the desolate beauty of their debut, Quindi Records is proud to present the second album from Dead Bandit. The ghosts of their past endeavours still haunt their guitars, but on Memory Thirteen the duo’s delicately dishevelled Southern gothic feels tonally distinct from their prior outing.

Dead Bandit is Ellis Swan and James Schimpl — the former a noted solo singer-songwriter from Chicago with a penchant for eerie, witching hour murder ballads and the latter an accomplished Canadian multi-instrumentalist with a bias towards heartworn, roaming soundscapes. Their instrumental collaboration has an open, lyrical quality which says as much as any spoken line, and on this album they’ve especially embraced the power of contrast as we’re guided between scenes, sometimes within the confines of one track.

‘Peel Me An Orange’ is especially instructive in this regard, beginning as a blown-out paean to sonic degradation and the acute sense of hopelessness it projects, only to yield to a lilting tape loop of twanging guitar before entirely widening out in an emphatic burst of post-rock optimism. Post-rock isn’t noted for its banal cheeriness as a genre, and Dead Bandit aren’t about to lay down feel-good drive-time anthems, but the sense of pulling at extremes of energy and introspection show Swan and Schimpl to be testing the emotional limits of their weatherbeaten sound. The cautiously sentimental mood of ‘Blowing Kisses’ hints at the hard-won light which can be encountered while pointedly driving into darkness.

Sometimes noise is a subtle device - a looming bed of unease under the forthright pluck of Swan’s distinct guitar tone or the cracking round the edges of a beaten up drum machine. On ‘Memory Thirteen’ the distortion on the bass becomes a central figure in its haggard waltz, while ‘Staircase’ and ‘Perfume’ leave the signal wet until the delay feedback becomes the body of the riff. Either way, the sound is never left untouched as Swan and Schimpl grow more comfortable in their exchange, blurring their respective sonic languages as they expand their shared vocabulary to create an album of depth, difference and devoted distortion.

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released February 9, 2024

All tracks written, recorded and mixed by James Schimpl & Ellis Swan

Quickscene recorded live 3/19/2023 in London by Ivan Muela

Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi

Artwork by Karolina Kolodziej

Photos by James and Ellis

Collages by Stella Laurenzi and Leo Calder

Vinyl Manufactured at R.A.N.D. Muzik, Leipzig, DE and assembled at Quindi Studios

Special Thanks: Rachel, Leo, Rowan, Hazel, Jason, Katherine and Jolene

c+p Quindi Records 2024

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Dead Bandit Chicago, Illinois

Indie/Post Rock duo made up of Chicagoan songwriter Ellis Swan and Canadian multi-instrumentalist James Schimpl

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