Trans Am returns with their seventh full-length release, entitled Liberation. From Trans Am's press release for Liberation:
"Liberation is the first album on which politics have crept into their music. Their position is unambiguous. Recorded in summer and fall of 2003 at National Recording Studio, built by the band in 1998, Liberation reflects and contains sounds of the tension coursing through the city. The hum of swirling helicopters, the din of police sirens, and culture of fear have become omnipresent in Washington, DC. It was in this environment that Trans Am finished their seventh album. Recorded live with the window of the studio open, the police car driving past their city studio was caught on tape. Today, on a normal commute through DC, one is likely to encounter a Humvee on the side of the road- not a workout guru's Hummer, but the real thing with mounted machine guns, surrounded by desert camouflage. New York's skyline is the most radically altered in the past three years, but life in Washington is palpably different."
You can download the album's first single Remote Control, an arpeggiated Kraftwerky number (courtesy of Thrill Jockey Records). Though Allmusic rated this album as poorly as it did the band's last, T/A (Allmusic gave both a meager two and one half stars; my review of T/A here), if "Remote Control" is any indication of the quality of the whole album, I will be quite pleased. Release Date: This Tuesday!
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