MP3 Sleeping in the Aviary - Expensive Vomit in a Cheap Hotel
Frantic, moody and slightly weird; SITA’s second full-length album pushes the amalgam of screaming vocals and clangy folk rock into fuzzy, spacey territory.
11 MP3 Songs in this album (45:40) !
Related styles: ROCK: Garage Rock, FOLK: Folk-Rock
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Sleeping in the Aviary’s debut album "Oh, This Old Thing?" (Science of Sound), showcased SITA’s ability to create intense bursts of lo-fi, catchy-as-hell pop. With songs averaging under two minutes, comparisons to The Thermals, Buzzcocks, Violent Femmes and Nirvana were inevitable.
Now, another side of the band’s musical personality is captured on SITA’s fortchoming album "Expensive Vomit In A Cheap Hotel" out October 14, 2008, on Science of Sound. The Madison band’s core of Elliott Kozel (guitar/vocals), Michael Sienkowski (drums) and Phil Mahlstadt (bass), has added a fourth member, Celeste Heule, on accordion and musical saw, heralding a move towards an indie-folk direction.
SITA emerged from the Science of Sound studio with an incredible collection of newly-recorded material. "Expensive Vomit In A Cheap Hotel" is still intense, full and raw, but now could draw comparisons to the likes of Neutral Milk Hotel, Baptist Generals and even Bob Dylan. Plus the songs have grown longer in length – none are under three minutes.
Kozel sheds some light on the band’s change in direction on the new album, pointing out that tracks on Expensive Vomit In A Cheap Hotel were written in the aftermath of tragedy. “Everybody’s Different, Everybody Dies” was recorded the same week his co-worker died of a brain aneurism on the way to work and an old friend died of a drug overdose. “Windshield” and “Write On” were written while Kozel was in a hospital caring for his sick mother. But he also points out “they are both songs of hope.”
There has also been a pair of additional releases from the SITA camp following their debut. In November 2007, Science of Sound released an eponyous spacey-folk album under the moniker She Is So Beautiful/She Is So Blonde, written and recorded by Kozel in his bedroom between the years 2003-2007. And in May 2008 it was the drummer’s turn , as Sienkowski composed and recorded a ‘60s-inspired pop album entitled Sooner Late Than Never under the moniker Whatfor. Tracked and mixed at Science of Sound, Whatfor’s album featured Sienkowski, Kozel and Mahlstadt as well as other Madison musicians on strings and horns to flesh out the sound.