The Mint Chicks Screens

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"Why is it less of a hassle to die in your sleep?"
Through a silly amount of vocal effects Kody Nielson kicks The Mint Chicks third LP into life with an instantly memorable line. The tone is set. This isn't going to be just another album.
Before we dive in, a quick history lesson:
After a series of mildly aggressive, blissfully sloppy punk singles The Mint Chicks released their fantastic debut album - Fuck The Golden Youth . Recorded in a remote shed on primitive equipment, the record was equal parts raw 'fisting' to the then over-polished music mainstream and undercooked punk masterpiece. The follow-up - Crazy? Yes! Dumb? No! - headed to the other end of the spectrum - clean, crisp and overloaded with plenty of brilliant pop corrections.
At this point in their career, the group hit a snag. The critical success of their debut had been super-succeeded by the commercial success - in relative New Zealand terms at least - of the follow-up. The stakes were now much higher. Around the same time, the band also faced internal changes with bassist, Michael Logie, leaving the group and the remaining trio relocating themselves to Portland.
That brings us to now, with the band arriving at their third offering - Screens - which this time finds the Kiwis venturing out from their solid punk foundation into a world inhabited by space age creatures and technological amalgams of life and existence.
Screens not only doesn't sound like anything the band has ever previously committed to record, but is also unlike anything my ears have ever had the pleasure of hearing. Labeled as 'shitgaze' or 'troublegum', the musical style finds the group's signature angled guitars replaced by toy keyboards, analogue synths (if there is such a thing) and heavily distorted vocals. Their punk core is still there, but it's suffocated under a barrage of lo-fi vibrancy, butchered pop and brightly coloured blissful chaos.
In part, what makes Screens such a brilliant record is the complete lack of superfluousness. There isn't a single wasted note, drum hit or lyric across the entire 30 minutes of the album. 2010 , Hot on Your Heels , I Can't Stop Being Foolish all dish out brain-exploding lessons in how modern pop can and should be constructed. To have three tracks such as this on any album would get it into the upper echelons of quality on almost any scale. The reality is that at this point, Screens is just warming up. What A Way , lumbers and jerks its way through the first half before hitting an impassable wall of sludgy, thumping and (believe it or not) gorgeous melody. Sweet Janines' impeccable crooning is matched only by it's flawless conjuring of the feelings of young love. Immediately after, the seemingly simple Telephone instantly demolishes those feelings with a tale of shattered hearts and expectations. Finally, the closer - Life Will Get Better Some Day - is a traditional rock ballad turned on it's head, stripped back to it's fundamental instincts much like a freshly recruited teenager in the armed forces, dishonorably discharged after an unfortunate incident involving hallucinogenic drugs, and then shipped to the jungles of Venezuela by it's parents to 'discover it's inner self'.
The beautiful yet unfathomable contradiction of this album is that after listening it becomes clear that this is the natural and obvious progression for the group to make, yet it's concepts could never have been imagined, calculated or stumbled upon by a million monkeys playing a billion instruments for a trillion years. The simple fact of the matter is that The Mint Chicks are making music so out of this world that our regular constructs and measurements of time and space simply do not apply. It's not just a matter of waiting until someone catches up, to hear music this good from anyone else, we'll have to wait until someone figures out how to bend matter and time to their own will. And despite the recent acceleration of technological discoveries, I have a feeling that won't be happening any time soon.
Is this album really 0.8 better than Sound of Silver & In Rainbows?
Not sure about that but its definitely 9.6 better than Kings of Leon last LP!
This just gets better and better with each listen. Album of the year? Well, I guess so seeing as it did get a 10.0, but it should be in at least most peoples 'Top 10' lists come end of Two Oh Oh Nine.
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For other uses, see Screen (disambiguation) .
2009 studio album by The Mint Chicks

" I Can't Stop Being Foolish " Released: March 2, 2009
"Hot On Your Heels" Released: June 2009
"Don't Sell Your Brain Out, Baby" Released: August 2009

^ Polaroids of Androids review

^ February 6, 2009 Twitter update

^ November 16, 2008 The Mint Chicks' Myspace Myspace. Accessed November 16, 2008.

^ December 20, 2008 Enemies video on YouTube

^ January 1, 2009 Life Will Get Better..." video on YouTube

^ February 20, 2009 NZOA Board Meeting

Kody Nielson
Ruban Nielson
Michael Logie
Paul Roper

Screens is the third studio album from Portland, Oregon -based "troublegum" group The Mint Chicks and thus far the only Mint Chicks release not to feature bassist Michael Logie. It was released on March 16, 2009 in New Zealand , [2] The Mint Chicks' homeland on Flying Nun Records . [3] It was mixed in Portland, Oregon by the Nielson brothers and Jacob Portrait, with additional mixing by Chris Nielson in Auckland, New Zealand.

The album's first single was "I Can't Stop Being Foolish". Sam Peacocke, the New Zealand music award winning director responsible for the band's videos for "Walking Off a Cliff Again" and "Crazy? Yes! Dumb? No!" filmed a new video for the single, which hit number 1 on the bFM chart on February 4, 2009 and stayed at this position for 2 weeks.

On December 25, 2008, an EP called Mintunes was offered for free download on The Mint Chicks' website including 8-bit versions of four songs to appear on Screens , including the then-unreleased "Red, White or Blue" and "Screens".

On December 20, 2008, a video for "Enemies" made by band member Ruban Neilson appeared on The Mint Chicks' website, YouTube and Vimeo. [4] On January 1, 2009, a similar video for the track "Life Will Get Better Some Day" created by Kody Neilson was released on YouTube. [5]

On February 20, 2009, New Zealand on Air released a list of songs granted funding for a video, among which was The Mint Chicks' track "Don't Sell Your Brain Out, Baby". [6] The song was added by bFM on May 4, 2009 and went to number one on the bFM top ten on May 6, the fifth bFM number-one from Screens .

Best Album Cover (designed by Ruban Nielson)

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