{"id":1561,"date":"2008-09-03T17:41:24","date_gmt":"2008-09-03T22:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hightwo.com\/ht\/?p=1561"},"modified":"2008-09-03T17:41:24","modified_gmt":"2008-09-03T22:41:24","slug":"debut-ep-from-whales-and-cops-ex-man-man-out-in-november-on-high-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hightwo.net\/two\/debut-ep-from-whales-and-cops-ex-man-man-out-in-november-on-high-two\/","title":{"rendered":"Debut EP from WHALES AND COPS (ex-Man Man) out in November on High Two"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a> Great Bouncing Icebergs<\/strong><\/em>, the five-song EP from Whales and Cops<\/strong> — a new band featuring former members of Man Man — is out in November on High Two<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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“Pop doesn’t get much more puzzling than on Great Bouncing Icebergs,<\/em> the long-awaited album by the madcap Philly troupe Whales and Cops. It’s packed with intimate shivers and hulking revelations and everything in between, beeping and blurring while virtuosic players with fake names wrangle vivid new life from their instruments.
\nMaybe that sounds like hyperbole, but this band’s sonic extremes are enough to shock even listeners weaned on years of Man Man.”<\/p>\n

\u2014Doug Wallen, Philadelphia Weekly<\/em><\/div>\n
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UPCOMING SHOWS<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Whales and Cops – Brooklyn – Europa – Oct. 23, 2008 (Thu)<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Whales and Cops – Philadelphia – The Rotunda – Oct. 28, 2008 (Tue)<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Whales and Cops – Brooklyn – Death By Audio – Nov. 13, 2008 (Thu)<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Whales and Cops – Philadelphia – Pi Lam – Nov. 14, 2008 (Fri)<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Whales and Cops – Baltimore – Hexagon – Nov. 15, 2008 (Sat)<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Watch the video for Futuro Futuro! from Great Bouncing Icebergs on Youtube…<\/a><\/p>\n

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Two veterans of West Philadelphia’s late, lamented “Softbatch” scene (Squi!, Son Bees, King of Prussia, Oskama Bin Skaden), half-brothers Mr. Nathaniel Cops (keys) and Finger Julius Mountain (drums) were first united by a desire to get the fuck out of Man Man after simultaneously discovering (to their great horror) that they’d been playing with them for years.\u00a0 Whales & Cops began rehearsals at once, cleaving to a vigorous, manly regimen of certain foods and exercises and, significantly, a staunch refusal to hide the light of their Modern music under a bushel of implausible pseudonyms and fake, stupid band names.\u00a0 With the addition of fancy, German-looking multi-instrumentalist Otzi Bogman and usually one other human, Whales & Cops stand poised at the very brink of the Culture itself, beckoning
\nto you.<\/p>\n

The Great Bouncing Icebergs<\/em> EP was recorded at dawn in an abandoned municipal storage facility through special, special microphones; each\u00a0 musician placed at or near the locus of a very red triangle.\u00a0 The songs recount the brother’s entanglement in a sugary web of digital dismemberment, expert panhandling, beard sex and beserk destruction.\u00a0 Legendary grunge producer Butch Vig was never contacted or mentioned once.
\nAll Songs by Whales and Cops<\/p>\n

Also recorded by Bill Moriarty & Mark Scott at American Diamond, but mostly by Mr. Cops at the Bubbletape Lounge — Philadelphia’s worst recording facility. The experience is not unlike sawing off your own nuts with a child’s drawing of a knife. No actually that would not have taken as long.<\/p>\n

Mr. Nathaniel Cops: Keys, Bees, Bells, Percussion, VX, FX.
\nFinger Julius Mountain: Drums, Marimba, Keys, Percussion, VX, Rx.
\nOtzi Bogman: Trumpet, Bass, Flugelhorn, Keys, Percussion, VX, Xx.<\/p>\n

Long-snouted Crocodilian Helpmeets:
\nStephanie Berliner — flute, keys; Andrew Dick — guitar, keys; Jesse Moynihan — violin; Jeff Hobo Carter — clarinet; Jaram Kim — violin; Dan Scholnik — tabla; . Alex Cordaro — whistleskull; Annie Fredrickson — cello; Scott Churchman — upright bass; Luke Fischbeck — bleeps; Billy Blaise Dufala — baritone sax, flute, clarinet; Ashley Deekus — marimba; Jeanette Berry — xox vox.
\nXXX VX Steven Dufala, Therese Gustafsson, Michael Wellenreiter, Adam Carrigan, Sochi Lynne Weiner, Jady Dyer, Gilmington Knoxworthy, Caroline Schmidt.<\/p>\n

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