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Parts & Labor announce third LP details

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Parts & Labor - seen at this year's Supersonic festival in Birmingham (review) - are to release their new album Receivers on November 3.

That's the UK release, anyway; stateside readers can enjoy it a little earlier, on October 21. Says the blurb:

"Receivers finds Parts & Labor focusing on open spaces, longer movements, expansive arrangements and loftier goals. On eight epic tracks, Receivers showcases the band's catchiest and darkest moods to date, reveling in a growing dynamic sensibility only hinted at in their previous work."

Sounds decent to us. Since the band's last album, Mapmaker (review), the trio have expanded to a four-piece, welcoming guitarist Sarah Lipstate (pictured at Supersonic) to the fold. Without sounding too pervy: grr. Too pervy? Sorry.

The album's tracklisting looks like this:

'Satellites'
'Nowheres Nigh'
(MP3 here)
'Mount Misery'
'Little Ones'
'The Ceasing Now'
'Wedding In A Wasteland'
'Prefix Free'
'Solemn Show World'

Video: Parts & Labor, 'The Gold We're Digging', from Mapmaker

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  • new member=hotness

    • oh

      and really looking forward to hearing the new LP!

      • so

        was i!
        i really love parts and labor, but that mp3 download is really disappointing. too much wussy vocals, not enough loud noise!

    • ...

      She brings the heat to hotness. I was fortunate enough to meet her. I fell in love.
      She has a lovely, experimental side project tha I quite like called Noveller. http://www.myspace.com/noveller

    • they were ace live

      i was giving her perv eyes across the room before i realised she was in the band. this only lead to increase my lust.

    • Enough with the sexist drivel

      She might do a Charlotte Hatherley and ruin the band for all you drooling idiots know. I'm just hoping that the fact that Parts + Labor have like, four side projects isn't going to detract from the main event. Mucs as I love Dan Friel's solo stuff and Shooting Spires, I hope they didn't use up all their best ideas on them, Mapmaker was my favourite album of last year.

      • pervs

        just because shes a chick...come one!! you horny fools.

        i bet none of you liked the band prior.

        pffft.

        you music nerd forum geeks. go get laid.

      • This site

        Perhaps you should leave and go write for ZOO/NUTS?

      • Great news

        and I don't care about the new member !

      • *4th LP, I'm pretty sure

        • It's not sexist.

          If it was a hot dude, fact remains they'd have added a hot dude.

          Hottness + hot rock + ht songs already + hot new LP = whole lotta hot.

          P&ListHawtYo.

          • WOO

            OO

          • yeah

            there was a s/t that was all instrumental. i think it's deleted now though.

          • Yes

            But would the addition of a HOT male made the body of text, no!