Sic Alps / Napa Asylum

Drag City

formats available

CD
$13.75
DC 455 CD
781484045526
Street Date:
January 25th, 2011
Ship Date:
January 17th, 2011
LP
$19.95
DC 455
781484045519
Street Date:
January 25th, 2011
Ship Date:
January 17th, 2011

“Napa Asylum is the SIC ALPS in 2010—two and one half years since the fabled release of US E.Z.! Napa Asylum accounts for the swift tilt of time with twenty-two crafted tracks bubbling in the reverb tank. The Alps are in the summer of their years, where they suddenly find a minute to reflect on the breaking down of the years previous. Napa Asylum is overfull with Sic pleasures, echoing half-emptily like they do as the hooks slide into your flesh, animating you marionette-style to tip-tat your way across the dance-floor. Themes from Napa Asylum include re-incarnation, magic and schizophrenia. The process is the flavor—and three albums in, you can still get in on the ground floor, ‘cause Sic Alps always record in the basement. Get down your steps while you can, the songs are as short as they are bitter-sweet. But the one that ends just makes way for the one coming next. No Export To Europe. (STREET DATE - 1/25/2011)