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Kestrels

by Kestrels

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    ** Vinyl LP format is available as a limited edition Gold with Purple Splatter vinyl (200 copies).**

    Halifax noise pop power trio Kestrels return with their new self-titled LP. Their third in total and second for Hamilton, Ontario’s fabled Sonic Unyon label, the record sees the band combining a frenzied union of striking melody and sonic bliss.

    Two years in the making, the full length was teased with 2014’s The Moon is Shining Our Way EP, a collection of four songs from the album sessions. Having toured the EP internationally and shared stages with the likes of Speedy Ortiz, Ringo Deathstarr, Beliefs, Greys, and Ash, the EP's title track was mainstay on college radio and CBC Radio 3, laying the groundwork for their defining third record.

    Recording the rhythm tracks in downtown Toronto’s Dream House Studio by Alex Bonenfant (METZ, Crystal Castles), with vocal sessions and guitar tracking taking place in vocalist/guitarist Chad Peck’s gear sanctuary/home studio in rural Nova Scotia, the band tapped lauded producer Brad Wood (Smashing Pumpkins, Sunny Day Real Estate) to mix the record in his LA based Seagrass Studio in the spring of 2015. Ringo Deathstarr's Elliott Frazier and Alex Gehring also make cameo guitar and vocal appearances, solidifying a friendship that began with a Canadian tour in 2012.

    The end result is by far their most accomplished recording to date. Drummer Paul Brown provides rhythm dynamics that can turn from tightly wound to borderline unhinged on a dime, Devin Peck covers unprecedented sonic ground with his bass, and Peck provides soft focus vocals backed by alternately tuned Fender Jazzmasters pushed through all manner of obscure Japanese fuzz pedals and coveted 80s rackmount processors.

    The sum total is a nod to the past, a response to the present, and a warm invitation into tomorrow.

    Praise for Kestrels:

    "Whereas many nu-gazers sound like they want to pretend that it's still 1991, Kestrels don't try to rewrite history. Their songs sound like shoegaze should in 2016: huge, anthemic choruses and sticky pop melodies surfing tidal waves of pedal-driven noise and crashing rhythms." – Noisey

    “Now a mainstay in Halifax, Kestrels have developed quite a following with their instantly recognizable brand of intelligently crafted, hazily psychedelic melodies and sweeping drones.” – Beatrroute

    “Generous brush stroke chords of glorious, melodic dissonance. Kestrels take on the code of the solar spheres, invoking the valor and wonder of space's orbiting environments that exist and spin according to each's path and planetary position.” – Impose

    Track Listing

    1. No Alternative
    2. Descent of Their Last End
    3. Are You Alone?
    4. Lying Down
    5. Suspect
    6. Wide Eyes
    7. Neko
    8. Waiting
    9. Ace
    10. Temples

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1.
feel the night divide you by design and it's alright to see your face in light without a sound and you fall down the streetlights are on your side and the fall blinds eyes alight hope is pushed aside and it's alright the speed of you
2.
feel no fall all inside: lies, eyes need to stay high feel no fall sweeping sweet pain breathe a long sigh sleep silent night need to stay wild breathe a long sigh nowhere home no one knows no sad hope nowhere home
3.
are you alone? so alone? unending? sleep still unknown still unknown in their dreams years fall away fall away descending soft slow remain you remain unnerving do you bleed far away from home? breathe far away from home? i feel far away from home
4.
Lying Down 04:06
realize surreal lines of my disguise slipping out of sight unknown still reflections of everyone haunting you alone the end lies in the demise of forever nights running out of time you alone still impressions so lost the days are never wrong who found you now? who now?
5.
Suspect 03:08
today i want to watch you run inside my heart i've just begun to see you for anyone at all you're out of reach the winter sun and i don't mind i've just begun to see you for anyone at all
6.
Wide Eyes 02:03
still the night to need her now stay alive until you shine an image of an image into everyone running from the night wide eyes sweet in soft light still life crystalline wide eyes sleep in soft light still life run away wide eyes
7.
Neko 04:35
please take me home when i leave you're on to me you know what i believe you're wrong to ever leave you're on to me run with me
8.
Waiting 01:57
wound around skin in air slow as sound rising there wait around find you there slowing down breathe the air to feel, too
9.
Ace 04:18
the last night for you and i oh long eyes chase to hide or bleed light oh sweet sight ease your mind alone and wild distant fire oh hard eyes a place to hide or feel fine oh dead night leave alive you'll be new soon
10.
Temples 04:18
starless and in blue ruin is what you lose silent and focused on the waves tonight isolation signs emptiness inside memory on display under a light your mind is a machine distillated dreams corners faded slipping out of sight out of focus young wind is what you love stars exploding winter lies alight lie awake at night it's too late

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*Kestrels - S/T. Release Date - September 30, 2016 on Sonic Unyon Records*

Recorded by Alex Bonefant at the Dreamhouse, Toronto, ON
Additional recording by Chad Peck at the Potential House, Halifax, NS
Mixed by Brad Wood at Seagrass Studio, Valley Village CA
Mastered by Hans DeKline at Sound Bites Dog, Los Angeles, CA

Chad Peck - Guitar/Vocals
Paul Brown - Drums/Percussion
Devin Peck - Bass

All songs written by Chad Peck (SOCAN)

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released September 30, 2016

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Kestrels Halifax, Nova Scotia

Kestrels are a band from Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.

New album Dream or Don't Dream is out now on Darla Records (ROW) and Noyes Records (Canada).

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