| Artist |
Holy Fuck |
| Album Title: |
Congrats |
| Album Cover: |
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| Primary Genre |
Electronic |
| Format |
CD |
| Released |
05/27/2016 |
| Label |
Innovative Leisure Records |
| Catalog No |
IL2039 |
| Bar Code No |
810874021502 |
| Packaging |
Cardboard 4 Panel Gatefold |
| Tracks |
| 1.
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Chimes Broken (4:52)
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| 2.
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Tom Tom (3:48)
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| 3.
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Shivering (4:21)
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| 4.
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Xed Eyes (3:54)
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| 5.
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Neon Dad (3:43)
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| 6.
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House Of Glass (3:00)
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| 7.
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Sabbatics (3:25)
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| 8.
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Shimmering (0:59)
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| 9.
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Acidic (3:42)
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| 10.
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Caught Up (5:21)
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| Date Acquired |
11/09/2021 |
| Personal Rating |
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| Acquired from |
OxfordshireEngland (Amazon) |
| Purchase Price |
18.67 |
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Notes |
Design – Show Group
Design Concept – Brian Borcherdt, Graham Walsh, Norman Wong
Design Concept [With] – Buddy Bojorquez, Julia Tsao
Drums – Loel Campbell (tracks: A5)
Horns – Jeremy Strachan
Mastered By – Brian Gardner
Mastered By [Additional] – Mike Bozzi (tracks: B4)
Mixed By – Brian Borcherdt (tracks: B1, B3, B4), Dave Newfeld* (tracks: A1, A5, B5), David Wrench (tracks: A3, B2), Drew Brown (tracks: A2), Graham Walsh (tracks: B1, B3, B4), Matt Wiggins (tracks: A4)
Percussion [Additional] – Loel Campbell (tracks: B5)
Performer [Holy Fuck is] – Brian Borcherdt, Graham Walsh, Matt McQuaid, Matt Schulz
Photography By – Norman Wong
Recorded By – Brian Borcherdt, Graham Walsh, Joe Dunphy (tracks: A1 to A4, B1 to B5), Shawn Everett (tracks: A5), Stephen Koszler (tracks: A1 to A4, B1 to B5)
Strings – Edwin Huizinga
Vocals [Additional] – Carmen Elle (tracks: A5)
Vocals [Swedish] – Anna Edwards (tracks: A3)
Written-By, Producer – Holy Fuck
Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Innovative Leisure Records
Recorded At – Revolution Recording
Recorded At – Banff Centre For The Arts
Recorded At – Youth Sabbath School
Recorded At – Basketball 4 Life
Mastered At – Record Technology Incorporated – 25591
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Analyzed Folder: Holy Fuck - Congrats_dr.txt
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DR Peak RMS Filename
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DR3 +0.00 dB -4.72 dB 01 - Chimes Broken.flac
DR5 +0.00 dB -6.61 dB 02 - Tom Tom.flac
DR3 +0.00 dB -4.95 dB 03 - Shivering.flac
DR3 +0.00 dB -4.23 dB 04 - Xed Eyes.flac
DR3 +0.00 dB -4.90 dB 05 - Neon Dad.flac
DR3 +0.00 dB -4.68 dB 06 - House Of Glass.flac
DR3 +0.00 dB -4.49 dB 07 - Sabbaties.flac
DR7 -0.59 dB -10.78 dB 08 - Shimmering.flac
DR3 -0.37 dB -5.18 dB 09 - Acidic.flac
DR4 +0.00 dB -6.31 dB 10 - Caught Up.flac
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Number of Files: 10
Official DR Value: DR4
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| Reviews |
Congrats Review by Paul Simpson:
Emerging after a six-year hiatus, Toronto-based electro-rock band Holy Fuck return with Congrats, an album that refines their junk store aesthetic into their most cohesive, accessible tunes yet. The group's songs still sound rough and chaotic, but they've come a long distance from the sprawling, messy jams of their 2005 debut. Subsequent albums LP and Latin sharpened their melodic inclinations considerably and had much tighter song structures, but on Congrats, they patch more vocals into the mix. While this certainly provides more of a human element to their music, the vocals are shadowy and distant, recalling Liquid Liquid in how they figure into the sound as textural elements rather than as a vehicle for expressing sentiments through easily discernable lyrics. Similarly, the music plays with the listener's perceptions, liberally incorporating jagged bursts of fuzz and trippy echo, and often adding suspenseful mood shifts. "Tom Tom" is one of the album's early highlights, pairing a minimal kick-snare beat with oddly cheerful singsong vocals and engulfing them in carefully controlled waves of distortion. "Shivering" is slower and more haunting, with brief blips of vocals forming a ghostly melody beneath chilling synth arpeggios. "Neon Dad" is surprisingly tender for the band, with a Fleetwood Mac-worthy melody disguised in layers of drifting, resounding reverb. "House of Glass" bursts forth with aggressive bass blasts, then hits a striding rhythm that is constantly offset by stuttering delay. "Acidic" is a gleefully EQ'd noisy disco-reggae jam, and the concluding "Crapture" (potentially a dig at disbanded dance-punks the Rapture?) is the most aggressive dance track on the album, furiously bashing its way up to an ecstatic climax via a vocal melody that recalls Prince's "Dirty Mind." Congrats still sounds unmistakably like Holy Fuck, but their vision of weird electronic pop is much clearer here.
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