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Beaten by Them's second full-length LP "Damp Sky" is entering final stages of production. Hopefully hitting the stores April/May 2010. ---->> AUSTRALIAN RADIO Signs of Life has been receiving radio coverage nationally around Australia. BBT will be guests on Triple R Thursday 25 June 9pm, Triple Z Wednesday 3 June 11pm and Spectrum FM Tuesday May 19 11am. ---->> DAMP SKY IN PORTLAND Recording sessions for the new BBT album have now been completed in Portland, Oregon. See the video section to the right for a look at BBT in the studio along with a sneak preview of the new material. ---->> LOOKING FORWARD BBT are currently working on the follow-up to Signs of Life and will head into the studio in April 2009 in Portland, Oregon for an expected release date late in 2009 / early 2010. ---->> "SIGNS OF LIFE" TO BE RELEASED IN AUS / NZ MAR 09 Signs of Life will be hitting stores nationally in Australia / New Zealand through Amphead on 28 March 2009. Look out for a national Australian tour later in the year to support the release. ---->> BEATEN BY THEM "LIVE FROM NYC" RADIO SHOW BBT's recent Knitting Factory show in New York City was the subject of KSCL's "Live from NYC" radio program. The program airs on KSCL Shreveport, LA, Wednesday 10/8 at 11am, Saturday 10/11 at 8pm and Wednesday 10/15 at 11am. The show is also available as a free iTunes podcast here and an MP3 download here. ---->> RADIO CHARTS IN US AND CANADA Signs of Life has been getting fantastic support from college radio across the US and Canada: the album's been on top 30 charts for almost 2 months and has reached as high as #6 to date. Most independent stations across the US and Canada have the album in rotation, so call up your local station and request some BBT! ---->> SUMMER 08 BBT TOUR AUG / SEP + NEW RHYTHM BBT is about to hit the road on a national tour to support Signs of Life. The tour kicks off in SF and works its way across the country to end up in Philadelphia. Spence Murray (bass) and Jeff Ardziejewski (drums) make their debut as the new BBT rhythm section. Spence also happens to be an ex-NASA Jet Propulsion Lab colleague of guitarist Max McCormick; that makes three aerospace engineers in the band!
"If Signs of Life is an accurate portrait of the band, calling Beaten by Them a “classical-rock music” isn't entirely off-the-mark but it's an imperfect descriptor and one that's overly constrictive too...." [more] - Textura Magazine "Beaten By Them could possibly be the next noise rock superstars with their great use of poetic tone and musical mastership. Signs of Life is an ambient masterpiece...." [more] - NeuFutur Magazine "San Francisco's Beaten by Them has more in common with modern classical music and minimalist German bands like Kraftwerk and Neu! than it does with Godspeed! You Black Emperor." [more] - Tom Murphy, Denver Westword "Beaten by Them wanders bleak landscapes of the kind cleared by Godspeed You! Black Emperor and A Silver Mt Zion, but also harness light and motion, its interest spanning from improvisational jazz to electronic scuffing. At any rate, the space it’s in always feels wide open, thanks to slow-building grandeur, swelling cello, and some impressively patient drum work." - The Onion "Meanwhile, Beaten by Them, a primarily instrumental ensemble, led by a cello, starts kicking ass, although there’s something wrong. Is there a genre? These category-defying bands...." [more] - Your Flesh Magazine "It's clear their goal is to step away from the norm, to push boundaries and create the uncreated. They seem to have mastered the art of taking the ordinary and making it extraordinary. Do not overlook this band, they have a something that is not easily found, and will never be fabricated....." [more] - Mediasearch "The music sublimely enters your mind and twists your thoughts long after the music has finished - almost like a David Lynch movie. Signs of Life is a masterfully blended and spicy album for your listening pleasure...." [more] - The Dwarf "One of the best post-rock releases in recent memory.... you're never quite sure what's around the corner, but you like it ALL. Beaten By Them have arrived as serious new artists...." [more] - dB Magazine
Beaten by Them is a multi-national, San Francisco/Melbourne based genre-twisting quintet combining cello, guitars, bass, drums and electronics. Beaten by Them is a mutant beast with many unwieldy body sections: the parts don’t work together perfectly, but the friction makes for its own kind of lumbering progress. Beaten by Them doesn't hit the listener over the head with its power. Rather, like a Fifth Column, the music infiltrates your consciousness and subverts expectations of what atmospheric music has to be. Beaten by Them can be accused of being overly beige, bordering on banal in its use of repetition. Beaten by Them chooses not to have a Myspace page. Beaten by Them bombards you with vast and beautiful sounds crafted with the intention to blow your mind. Beaten By Them have perhaps retreated too far in their minimalism. Beaten by Them creates the kind of music that just begs to be analyzed and examined; the music is so expressive and intense. Like a river that breaks a mountain, Beaten invokes the grandeur of eternity. Want more? Click here for the regular "band bio" or click here for a bio the way they should be written.
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VIDEO BBT in action recording the follow-up to Signs of Life in Portland, Oregon in April 2009. Users with low bandwidth should deselect HD in the control panel below the video after playing commences. You can also watch the video in full screen mode by clicking on the full screen control in the panel. The video can also be viewed at YouTube in HD by clicking here or in basic low bandwidth format by clicking here. Be sure to stop the audio player above first.
Beaten by Them were approached by surf / environmental film maker Peter Kirkhouse after performing in Australia in 2007. His beautiful film footage is below, accompanied by the title track from Signs of Life. You can also see the QuickTime video by clicking here.
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