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Montreal art pop group Freelove Fenner will release their long-awaited album, The Punishment Zone, on Moone Records. The 14-song collection is an exercise in pleasing sounds, diaphanous textures, and concise song structure. The group listened to a century’s worth of experimental, often cacophonous sounds and reshaped it into a mellow pop music.
The group’s workshop is the strictly analog Bottle Garden Studio, a small room full of tape machines and homemade equipment that is integral to the group’s sound and process. Avoiding 21st century technology not out of any sort of snobbery or nostalgia but rather a desire to avoid the work habits inherent with contemporary tools, the band embraces the different results that come with a slower, more tactile process: the happy accidents; the absence of visual stimuli (no screens); the difficulty in attaining high gloss finishes.
press
- “Baxter’s Column” Music Video Premiere on Foxy Digitalis
- Review of “The Punishment Zone” on Brooklyn Vegan
- Review of “The Punishment Zone” on Gonzai Magazine
- Review of “The Punishment Zone” on Exclaim!
- Review of “The Punishment Zone” on Pop News
- Review of “The Punishment Zone” on Yellow Green Red
- First Listen of “The Punishment Zone” on Exclaim!
- Review of “The Punishment Zone” on Le Devoir
- “LED Museum” on Raven Sings The Blues
- “Shoulder Season” on Aquarium Drunkard
