Grand Duchy-Petits Fours-(Advance)-2009-DV8

Artist: Grand Duchy

Title: Petits Fours

Label: CV

Genre: Alt. Rock

Bitrate: 191kbit av.

Time: 00:37:22

Size: 54.09 mb

Rip Date: 2009-01-22

Str Date: 2009-02-16



1. Come On Over To My House 2:45

2. Lovesick 3:52

3. Fort Wayne 4:37

4. Seeing Stars 3:29

5. Black Suit 4:29

6. The Long Song 5:15

7. Break The Angels 5:17

8. Ermesinde 4:04

9. Volcano! 3:34



Release Notes:



Monday 16th February sees the release of Petits Fours, the

debut album from Grand Duchy, aka Violet Clark and Black

Francis. Featuring 9 tracks, Petits Fours is joint venture

between Clark and Francis, rather than a solo Francis project,

and contains driving bass lines, a healthy dose of synths and

some excellent vocals from Clark, alongside Francis's

trademark guitar squalls.



'Once upon a time, Violet and I went into the studio together

for a day as an experiment, and we came out that night with

Fort Wayne,' explains Francis. 'A leaked version seemed to

please others, and so we decided to continue the 'experiment'.

We decided that, while we were not expert players on all rock

ensemble instruments, we would play everything ourselves as we

had done on the Fort Wayne session.



'She was innocent. I hadn't felt innocent for years. She digs

the 80's. I had spent the latter part of the 80's doing my

part to destroy the 80's. Our second recording session

involved a fair amount of shouting and throwing things, much

to the horror, I'm sure, of our two engineers Thaddeus Moore

and Jason Carter; being pros they just smiled at us.



'A 'band' truce developed. Over time we threw less objects and

began to enjoy our creative tension. We fantasized about the

future, about success, as new bands do, and decided during a

drive to the studio that we would take any proceeds and make a

down payment on a house in Luxembourg (for some strange

reason, I can't remember now - perhaps my longstanding

obsession with micro states). I guess that's where the name

Grand Duchy came from. Maybe that's where we will come from

one day. Crossroads of Europe. Near to here and there, but far

from Oregon. Cold, grey Oregon.



'I guess Luxembourg isn't exactly St. Tropez, either. But we

could rule our Garage Rock Synth Chick Non-Stop Erotik

Poussez-Poussez Dominion from a place like that. Just a little

place on the river, in the ravine, in the trees, in the stars.

Our pied-de-terre. A place to stop on our way to your European

nite klub.'