Ecstatic Sunshine will release their 3rd LP Yesterday's Work November 3rd on Hoss Records. Yesterday's Work presents a definitive sonic break from past Ecstatics. While the songs still revolve around the shifting guitar lines of Papich, it’s palette is much broader than previous releases; with Joe Williams (White Williams) production introducing a soft low end and delicate synthesized sounds to Papich's guitar work. Think Koln School Electronics and Penguin Cafe Orchestra, or a Harmonia record produced by Coxsone Dodd.

The Turned On 7", to be released September 1st (also by Hoss), indicates this new direction. Turned On showcases the boyish exuberance that was a trademark of past Ecstatics; its minimalist backbone reminding of The Who's Baba O Reily being spit out of space and surfing to Earth on a Baltimore Club track. The B-side includes a remix of Dunk (forthcoming on Yesterday's Work), by techno mastermind Cexman. The Turned On 7" will be available for free, directly from Hoss - a gift from the future to our present world. Please see hossrecords.com for your copy.

ON YESTERDAY'S WORK

"Outside the record there are many sounds. Some of those sounds were moved, through memory, into the record. We would hear soft bass through the windows of a car, or listen to birds waking up before dawn, and learn to remember those sounds and later draw them out of synthesizers or guitars. In this way we could hear the record before it was made. It is like John Cage's ideas about incidental sound, except instead of composing with those sounds, we composed for them. The record is an homage to the Everyday. It is music that happens, and is heard, and then said.

Inside the record the sounds build a kind of space. The space is related to where the record was made, physically. Inside the house we could use our sounds as a massive silly putty. Most days we were making a mold of the interior and then stretching it, or mashing it, or just massaging it. Because of this, the record defines different kinds of impossible architectures. The architectures are spatial and are made of vibrations; really they are variations on a studio.

The studio is soft. It is flexible, and alternative. In turn, the songs made in the soft studio have many uses, but also a kind of resilience. Each song is able to snap back to its recognizable shape in space. The songs can be used in many ways, they can entertain babies, soundtrack unmade cartoons, encourage small talk, even facilitate new dreams."

-ES 2009