Static in Transmission

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Static in Transmission
Studio album by
Spoons
ReleasedMarch 29, 2011 [1]
RecordedSky Studios, Guelph, Ontario
Genre Synthpop
Length43:08
Label Universal Canada
Fontana North
Producer Jeff Carter
Spoons album chronology
Unexpected Guest at a Cancelled Party
(2007)		Static in Transmission
(2011)		 New Day New World
(2019)
Singles from Static in Transmission
  1. "Imperfekt"
    Released: 2010
  2. "You Light Up"
    Released: 2011

Static in Transmission is the eighth studio album by the Canadian new wave band Spoons. Released in early 2011 on CD and iTunes, it is their first album of new material in 23 years since 1988's Vertigo Tango.

Canada Country in North America

Canada is a country in the northern part of North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic to the Pacific and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering 9.98 million square kilometres, making it the world's second-largest country by total area. Canada's southern border with the United States is the world's longest bi-national land border. Its capital is Ottawa, and its three largest metropolitan areas are Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver. As a whole, Canada is sparsely populated, the majority of its land area being dominated by forest and tundra. Consequently, its population is highly urbanized, with over 80 percent of its inhabitants concentrated in large and medium-sized cities, many near the southern border. Canada's climate varies widely across its vast area, ranging from arctic weather in the north, to hot summers in the southern regions, with four distinct seasons.

New wave is a genre of rock music popular in the late 1970s and the 1980s with ties to mid-1970s punk rock. New wave moved away from blues and rock and roll sounds to create rock music or pop music (later) that incorporated disco, mod, and electronic music. Initially new wave was similar to punk rock, before becoming a distinct genre. It subsequently engendered subgenres and fusions, including synth-pop.

Spoons (band)

Spoons is a Canadian new wave band, formed in 1979 in Burlington, Ontario, Canada. They recorded several Canadian chart hits between 1982 and 1989, and in 1983, they won Group of the Year at the U-Know awards. Their most popular songs include "Romantic Traffic", "Nova Heart", "Old Emotions", and "Tell No Lies".

Contents

Background and writing

After playing the new song "Imperfekt" live at a 2010 concert in Toronto, the band was approached by Universal music to record an album of all new material. [2] Following this, the band released a promo CD single for "Imperfekt", b/w "Breaking In" in July 2010. Two additional new songs from the album were previewed online in Dec. 2010. [3]

A promotional recording, or promo, or plug copy, is an audio or video recording distributed free, usually in order to promote a recording that is or soon will be commercially available. Promos are normally sent directly to broadcasters, such as music radio and television stations, and to tastemakers, such as DJs and music journalists, in advance of the release of commercial editions, in the hope that airplay, reviews, and other forms of exposure will result and stimulate the public's interest in the commercial release.

In a December 2010 interview, Gordon Deppe explained: "It wasn't until we recorded Imperfekt that I thought we had something. At a Spoons rehearsal, everyone went, 'wow, what's that.' And seeing that reaction got me excited. I am very self-doubting when I do anything creative, but the moment I get a little spark and some affirmation, I go, 'okay,' and will write more." [4] According to Deppe, the remaining songs were written in a six-month period in 2010 and roughly in the order they appear on the album.

The album was recorded at producer Jeff Carter's studio in Guelph, Ontario using the PreSonus recording system. [1] The music video for the first single "You Light Up" was filmed in Toronto, Ontario.

Guelph City in Ontario, Canada

Guelph is a city in southwestern Ontario, Canada. Known as "The Royal City", Guelph is roughly 28 kilometres (17 mi) east of Kitchener and 100 kilometres (62 mi) west of Downtown Toronto, at the intersection of Highway 6, Highway 7 and Wellington County Road 124. It is the seat of Wellington County, but is politically independent of it. The city is built on the traditional territory of the Mississaugas of the New Credit First Nation.

PreSonus Audio Electronics, Inc. is an American manufacturer of professional audio equipment and software, used to create, record, mix, and master music and other audio. This includes their line of digital audio workstation (DAW) software, Studio One.

Toronto Provincial capital city in Ontario, Canada

Toronto is the provincial capital of Ontario and the most populous city in Canada, with a population of 2,731,571 in 2016. Current to 2016, the Toronto census metropolitan area (CMA), of which the majority is within the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), held a population of 5,928,040, making it Canada's most populous CMA. Toronto is the anchor of an urban agglomeration, known as the Golden Horseshoe in Southern Ontario, located on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A global city, Toronto is a centre of business, finance, arts, and culture, and is recognized as one of the most multicultural and cosmopolitan cities in the world.

Cover art

The cover for the CD features a picture of Sandy Horne and Gordon Deppe and numerous symbols and signs including Morse code, circuit diagrams and even hieroglyphics. Fans who purchased the album were challenged to find secret codes that would unlock two additional bonus downloads on the band's official website. [5]

Morse code Transmission of language with brief pulses

Morse code is a character encoding scheme used in telecommunication that encodes text characters as standardized sequences of two different signal durations called dots and dashes or dits and dahs. Morse code is named for Samuel F. B. Morse, an inventor of the telegraph.

Circuit diagram graphical representation of an electrical circuit

A circuit diagram is a graphical representation of an electrical circuit. A pictorial circuit diagram uses simple images of components, while a schematic diagram shows the components and interconnections of the circuit using standardized symbolic representations. The presentation of the interconnections between circuit components in the schematic diagram does not necessarily correspond to the physical arrangements in the finished device.

Hieroglyph Pictographic sign

A hieroglyph was a character of the ancient Egyptian writing system. Logographic scripts that are pictographic in form in a way reminiscent of ancient Egyptian are also sometimes called "hieroglyphs". In Neoplatonism, especially during the Renaissance, a "hieroglyph" was an artistic representation of an esoteric idea, which Neoplatonists believed actual Egyptian hieroglyphs to be. The word hieroglyphics refer to a hieroglyphic script.

Track listing

All songs written by Gordon Deppe.

  1. "Breaking In" – 4:35
  2. "Imperfekt" - 4:28
  3. "Numb" - 3:51
  4. "Star Maps" - 4:05
  5. "Escape with You" - 4:22
  6. "You Light Up" - 4:24
  7. "B Movie" - 4:35
  8. "End of Story" - 4:40
  9. "Words Will Smash Walls" - 4:30
  10. "Closing Credits" - 4:30

Personnel

Band members

Production

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References

  1. 1 2 "Spoons News 2011" . Retrieved 2012-08-07.
  2. ↑ Kauri, Vidya (16 May 2011). "21 years later, Spoons are back". The Hamilton Spectator . pp. GO12.
  3. ↑ "Spoons offer a taste of their first new album in over 22 years". 2010-12-27. Retrieved 2012-08-07.
  4. ↑ Barber, Jim (2010-12-18). "Spoons return with first studio album in 22 years". The Barrie Examiner . Retrieved 2012-08-07.
  5. ↑ "Static in Transmission: Secret Content" . Retrieved 2012-08-07.
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