Release Party This Thursday!

Here’s the facebook event.

Why sleep when we could have another band practice?

Seriously though guys, I just spent a week and a half in my childhood bedroom. I need some rock concert real bad.

Release Plans

So, as I’m sure you already know, our new record I Hope You Never Come Home is now available at our favourite little Canadian indie digital music store Zunior, and you can get either the digital version, OR the actual real CD, with amazing artwork through Bandcamp.

This is, of course, all a prelude to our sweet, sweet CD release party January 6th, 2010.

For those of you who, for whatever reason, don’t want to save money AND support the lovely folks at Zunior, or see all your hard earned money go directly to the band through Bandcamp, the record will be available through all the major e-retailers (iTunes, Amazon, eMusic, etc.) in a few days.

We’ve also got plans to re-release our debut EP Centralia, and we’ll be making the much-coveted white vinyl special edition of 2008′s Deep River available for mail order.

Photo: Adam Anklewicz

Thanks, the Indie Machine!

From The Indie Machine:

Ever lay in the back of a flatbed truck with five of your friends as you ramble up the side of a mountain en route to a forest of refer? Dance in a barnyard only to discover it’s your bedroom? Wheel around drunk in a joyous rage in the middle of a thunderstorm? It’s transcendental moments like these that turn into epic memories, scoring the soundtrack of your life. Entire Cities new album I Hope You Never Come Home possesses this effectual quality of familiarity that undoubtedly comes from their affinity for nostalgia with tell-tale lyrics narrating this proverbial trip down memory lane. Ironically, the title contradicts exactly what this album feels like: a good old fashioned warm welcome home.

Anthemic from the opening track Bruise Black, the peaks and valleys traversed rise and fall with crescendo after epic crescendo, from scrublands to highlands, resonating perfectly with each knee-slapping, boot-stomping, slow-dancing epithet. Spirited and whimsical, light hearted yet heady, Zombie Song (Dream Logic)captures this wistful paradox as a pseudo Memento Mori, a reminder of our mortality in its apocalyptic celebration of life; nothing like a crashing wall of sound to get the point across. Tower captures this build-it-up-to-burn-it-down mentality that echoes across the entire landscape of the album. And just when you thought it was safe to settle in, the calm before the storm suddenly gives way to an ethereal odyssey through varying time signatures and textured harmonies that catapult you straight into this beautiful frenzy of madness and tranquility. Closing with Predator Song, that calm returns with this hymnal prayer invoking the spirit of those distant yet distinct memories of laying around in a flatbed truck with five friends, reminding us we will always be welcome home. Amen to that.

NICOLE PROFOUS

We’re on bandcamp now!

http://entirecities.bandcamp.com/

At this nice little website you can buy our brand new record, I Hope You Never Come Home, both by mail-order (highly recommended – the artwork by Stefanie Bruce is worth the price of admission), OR in digital format.

The last time we made a record

They’re here!

Simon artfully models the I Hope You Never Come Home CDs, which are now in our eager paws, ready for distribution (you can purchase your very own on December 7th!).

As usual, details will be posted everywhere on the interwebs: here, on our Twitter page, on MySpace, and on our Facebook page and group. Stay uber-connected. The record will be available through us and at Soundscapes in Toronto, as well as through Zunior online. A comprehensive list of where to get your hands on one will be posted with the release.

Wavelength tonight!

Wavelength 510 tonight with Andrew Barker’s solo project The Lake Vernon Drowning and Ronley Teper. It’s going to be a good one. Get there early and stay late … Entire Cities is on around midnight and we’ll be playing a bunch of stuff from the new album.

Which, incidentally, looks like this.

Magnificent artwork, as always, by Miss Stefanie Bruce.
See you tonight!

EDIT: It’s here!!