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Like Night

by Heroes Of Toolik

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Perfect 03:44
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Eight Mile 06:07
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Warm 07:11
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Say Virginia 03:58
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Again 03:33
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Crazy Doll 03:24
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The songs . . . are upbeat and crisp, and they are adventurous and strange. The lyrics, uniformly, are excellent, allusive, avoidant of romantic cliché, influenced perhaps by the neo-French modernism of Tom Verlaine or the cut-ups of Bowie, or the elusive lines of middle-period Talking Heads. Arad Evans, who like Ficca and Brooks, seems to have played with everyone of note in New York in the last few decades, is a truly inventive and surprising guitar player, his solos with a sort of sinewy and serpentine quality that might distantly be related to the excellent Nels Cline, but with a little Richard Lloyd or Robert Quine mixed in. Coates’s voice is the secret weapon of the Heroes of Toolik, and her songs are the most fully realized (though there is one truly extraordinary instrumental on Like Night, called “Warm,” which is without a doubt one of my favorite pieces of music this year). . . . Everywhere there is sterling musicianship, of the original, unexpected sort. If the songs on Like Night are often filled with moments of the wistful or even sad, the project, the musicians playing together and performing together, is the treatment for what ails. (Rick Moody/The Rumpus) (therumpus.net/2016/08/swinging-modern-sounds-74-a-social-practice/)

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released August 26, 2016

Arad Evans (vox/gtr); Jennifer Coates (vox/violin); Robert Poss (gtr); John Speck (trombone); Ernie Brooks (bass); Billy Ficca (drums). Produced by Wharton Tiers. Additional musicians: Michael Evans (percussion); Peter Zummo (trombone); Trip Kyle (drums); Ted Ferguson (accordion). Cover art: Mollie Wohlforth, Jennifer Coates

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Heroes Of Toolik New York, New York

Heroes of Toolik make "deceptively catchy hypnotically growling, post-Velvets grooves." (NY Music Daily). The players are Arad Evans-guitar/vox (Chatham/Branca), John Speck (Ole Fresca) -trombone, Jennifer Coates--fiddle/vox (Jenny Get Around), Ernie Brooks--Bass (Modern Lovers), Billy Ficca--drums (Television)--"a Who's Who of underground music." (The BigTake Over). ... more

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