aaamusic | On 15, Sep 2011

Norwegian noiseniks Årabrot have released their fifth album Solar Anus on Fysisk Format. Their previous album, REVENGE from 2010, marked the “end of an era and the beginning of something new”. While the first four Årabrot albums showed a staggering level of ambition and a sense of musical dramaturgy like no other band, Solar Anus shows a band that has found its form, the ambitions and latent genius of the past has come into light.

All of the eight tracks on Solar Anus are recorded and mixed by Steve Albini, known for his work with Pixies, Nirvana and his own bands Big Black and Shellac

 

Stream the whole album through Drowned in Sound HERE.

 

Årabrot will be touring the UK with Dethscalator in October.  More dates TBC.

Oct 27th – Cardiff @ Undertone w/Dethscalator
Oct 28th – Liverpool @ Mello Mello w/Dethscalator

Oct 31st – London @ Shacklewell Arms w/Dethscalator and Vile Imbeciles

* Fifth album by the Norse Gods of Noise Rock!
* Arabrot playing their purest, wildest, ugliest rocknroll!
* Recorded and mixed by Steve Albini!
* Fiftieth release on Fysisk Format!

After finishing the main recordings Arabrot collaborator Concept.Virus infested some of the tracks with electronics, but still most of the tracks were kept clean, open and focused on the primitive force of rhythms, chords and guttural vocals spitting out filthy prose.

The title and part of the thematic inspiration of the album is from the french literate Georges Bataille. Like Bataille, Arabrot is fascinated by the joy and energy of unifying the high and the low, the filth and the pure, the animalistic and the divine in man. In songwriter, vocalist and guitarist Kjetil Nernes’ own words:
Gold indicates the sun as we hail Bataille’s take on the subject of abjection. Solar Anus betokened the Golden Calf – juxtaposed between utmost evil and greater sanctity. Such as the eternal radiance of heaven or the egregious iniquities of the abyss. Or the alchemist of The Holy Mountain converting faeces into gold.

Solar Anus’s eight tracks is Arabrot playing their purest, wildest, ugliest rocknroll. Even the tiniest ears in mother earth’s soil will open like flowers to the sun.
Solar Anus is the first album of the new Arabrot and the fiftieth release on Fysisk Format
Recorded and mixed by Steve Albini in Electrical Audio Studio A, Chicago, Il, March & May 2011.
Mastered by Jason Ward at Chicago Mastering Service June 2011. Cover artwork and design by Transgressive Productions. Songs by K. Nernes. Arranged and structured by Arabrot