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FASANO - THE BARN - OUT NOW ON CASSETTE AND DIGITAL

“Last Evening” streaming right there.

Buy the cassette at the GODMODE shop.

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The debut album by GODMODE’s Matty Fasano. Fasano sang backup vocals with a bunch of us at the final LCD Soundsystem gigs. Electric guitar, voice, and drum programming, recorded to four-track cassette at Brooklyn’s new Silent Barn studio—the first full-length record out of the place as far as we know.

Green cassette. Handstamped, handnumbered, hand-everything’d cover art, in limited run of 100 copies.

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“It turns out GODMODE has its own Frank Ocean to match their balls-deep-in-the-Wipers version of OFWGKTA…” — Awkward Sound.

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ON THE BARN
By Nick Sylvester

FASANO is Matthew Fasano. He sang with a bunch of us in the men’s chorus for those final LCD Soundsystem shows a couple years ago. “The Barn” is his debut cassette, with eight new songs that we recorded to four-track tape at the new Silent Barn studio. If you liked the first Waxahatchee or Grizzly Bear records I think you’ll dig this. 100 handmade, handstamped cassettes are available for purchase at shop.entergodmode.com.

Before I try to convince you that this record is my Bon Iver, let me start by saying: I hate singer-songwriters. The emotional ones, the literary ones, the ones that “understand the modern human condition” and so on. The ones that joke about how the Grammys don’t matter but still show up to accept the award. Pretty much all of them seem really desperate for me to take them seriously and it turns me off. Even the classic indie singer-songwriters that, as an educated contributor to the American musical underground (or something!), I’m supposed to respect, if not adore—it just never feels entirely genuine. What’s the rub? I want to know. It’s not their fault, but I always smell a rat.

And yet here is “The Barn”, which is very much the singer-songwriter debut by Matty Fasano, who records as Fasano. Matty and I recorded it in a day at the new Silent Barn, a DIY performance space in Bushwick. We did it live on a four-track cassette mixer, songs usually in one take, with vocals, drum loops, and electric guitar all stewing together in the room before hitting the microphones. A few songs were completely improvised. We didn’t know it was going to be a record until that’s what it was.

I’ve thought a lot about why I like this singer-songwriter record and not others. I’ve also realized that there are lots of people who feel the same way I do about singer-songwriters. And yet when I play them these songs, they all say the same thing: Something magical happened in that room.

You’ll either hear what I’m talking about or you won’t. What I respond to is the sense of voyeurism—like Fasano didn’t even realize he was being recorded. It’s evocative of a very specific kind of loneliness. The best bedroom recordings have an intimacy to them that’s almost accidental—like we’re not supposed to be hearing what we’re hearing. He’s singing these songs for himself. We’re just lucky to be hearing them.

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FASANO
“The Barn”
GODMODE 2013
cat no: GM026

Songs by Matthew Fasano
Vox and Guitar by Matthew Fasano
Additional Programming by Nick Sylvester
Mixed and Recorded by Nick Sylvester at Silent Barn, BK

what happens when adam is in charge of rehearsal recordings

TUE 13 NOV @ SHEA STADIUM BK

WE CELEBRATE THE RELEASE OF ‘RADIATION’, THE NEW SINGLE BY YVETTE

featuring:

SOFT CIRCLE

YVETTE

MOCHS (ZACH LEHRHOFF OF KNYFE HYTS)

& BREEDING PROGRAM (LIVE DEBUT)

BULLETS #1: 2 NOVEMBER 2012

1. MAC DEMARCO. One of my bigger regrets this CMJ, not seeing this guy. This is what I wanted Real Estate to sound like.

2. ACTUAL PAIN FALL 2012. a/k/a Academy of Holy Light. King Dude is a stan-maker. I can’t bring myself to wear any of the ‘getting high’ stuff but the “New America” and “Sigil” designs are some of his best yet.

3. WILL HAPPINESS FIND ME? What a bummer to see critics been-there done-that Maria Minerva right when she’s hitting her stride. This record is far and away her strongest—not just the songs but the mix (killer low-end). The way she’s singing these melodies too, sliding in and out of pitch… Alas. “Needs more clipping.”

4. HALLOWEEN AT DEATH BY AUDIO. Sleepies and co raised $1000+ for Red Cross disaster relief. A salute to Alyse Eula, Heaven’s Gate, Acid Problem, Andy Bodor and Go-Guhs for turning a packed house into something much more than that.

5. SIOUXSIE AND THE NO-SHOWS. Deeply sorry about the absence on 10/31. Mr. Dream’s Siouxsie was Lizzy from MS MR, who got stuck in DC because of Sandy. (She beat us to the “Hurricane” punch.) We will make this up to you. A limited run EP is in the works, featuring bad-ass versions of (among others) “Monitor”, “Happy House”, and “Israel”.

6. 12/12/12. ANNOUNCING: A MR. DREAM CHRISTMAS. Glasslands @ 289 Kent. More details forthcoming. Tix on sale now. 

BONUS:

VENUE CHANGE!!!

everyone!

psyched you’re coming tonight. our original venue, delinquency, was shut down last night, so there are two adjustments to party details:

1. CMJ ENTERS GODMODE will now be nearby at XPO 929: 929 Broadway in Brooklyn. the venue is mere seconds away from the Myrtle Ave JMZ.

2. Xpo 929 doesn’t allow BYOB, but will graciously be doing $2 rolling rocks until 10pm,  $2 shots all night, and two-for-one specials with soju, the delicious korean liquor.

xpo is open at 7 if you want to hang out. first band is on at 8.

bonus: matt morello from mr. dream will be playing tunes all night.

any questions please get at us: internet at entergodmode dot com

thanks!

nick and talya || godmode

jonny aquadora || xpo929

GODMODE ARTISTS AT CMJ

SLEEPIES:

MON OCT 15 @ GODMODE PARTY. DELINQUENCY. 1031 GRAND ST. BK. 11PM.

WED OCT 17 @ FRENCHKISS PARTY. PIANOS. 158 LUDLOW. LES. 9PM

SAT OCT 20 @ EXPLODING IN SOUND VS GIMME TINNITUS. PAPERBOX. 17 MEADOW ST. BK. 8:30PM

SAT OCT 20 @ FUZZ PARTY. SWAT BAR. 59 CANAL ST. CHINATOWN. 11:30PM.

MR. DREAM:

MON OCT 15 @ GODMODE PARTY. DELINQUENCY. 1031 GRAND ST. BK. 10PM.

SAT OCT 20 @ [TBA]. 2PM

SAT OCT 20 @ EXPLODING IN SOUND VS GIMME TINNITUS. PAPERBOX. 17 MEADOW ST. BK. 7PM

IT’S OUT! WITH SURPRISE DIGITAL BONUS TRACK “DIRT IS THE WORD”!

SLEEPIES: WEIRD WILD WORLD [GODMODE/160H; 2012]

produced by The Men’s Ben Greenberg; mastered by Josh Bonati

Buy it at iTunes: WEIRD WILD WORLD

Buy it at Amazon: WEIRD WILD WORLD 

Buy it on vinyl at 16oh: WEIRD WILD WORLD

WHILE YOU’RE AT IT:

Pick up the first Sleepies LP at iTunes: SLEEPIES

Pick up the first Sleepies LP at Amazon: SLEEPIES

Pick up their Hot Singles 7” at iTunes: HOT SINGLES

Pick up their Hot Singles 7” at Amazon: HOT SINGLES