Format: Digipack CD album Cat#:arcd 058 Label: Adrian Recordings Year: 2008 1. Satisfaction 2. Minds Out 3. You Need To 4. All Right (Exclusive Remix) 5. Around the Bridges 6. Beat a Star 7. Too Late (Exclusive Remix) 8. Brother 9. Singsong (Remix) 10. I Swear (Boeoes Kaelstigen's Microsievert Remix)
This was Printers’s first album release on Adrian Recordings. On this
album the band has taken a more dirty and danceable, say techno,
approach, although still maintaining the emotional and intellectual
focus. It’s music to be moved by whether it’ll be on the dance floor or
in your couch. It’s electronic pop music at its best. And it’s got power
and depth.
The many live performances that preceded this album shows in the work.
Or as the band explains “We simply had more beers in the studio and we
never danced so much as during the making of this record.” However if
this is their cheeriest moment, you might feel worried for the mental
health of the members, because this is dance music of the moody kind,
ostensibly purveyed by fellow Scandinavians the Knife: a fog of
melancholy surrounds their lithe beats and blippy synthesizer melodies,
making it the perfect album to linger with you for a long time. Most of
the record's cuts, like the Auto-Tune enhanced "Satisfaction" and the
swirly "All Right", offer a baroque take on 21st-century new wave but
there is always a techno background to it. To amplify the beat we’re
finishing the album with Boeoes Kaelstigen’s Microsievert Remix of the
Printer track “I Swear” (the original can be found on the Printer album
“I Can Take More” out on Statler & Waldorf) a collaboration made in
thin, high radioactive air.
