The Season Standard – Squeeze Me Ahead Of Line
Release: 11.07 2008
Format: CD
Genre: Jazzcore / Experimental / Math /
Avant-Pop / Progressive / Funk
01. A Seadog Grotesque
02. The Water Fellow
03. 12 Inches Nose Makes Disco
04. Kaira
05. Makkk
06. Xylan
07. Tisa
08. The Sheep Sheep
09. Super Push
Listen 
BuyWHAT A POSTMODERN MESS!!!
Excuse me?
Could you be so nice and leave your aural habits at the wardrobe? You'll be grateful for this hint.
Well, if you now could prepare yourself to transfer 50 minutes of your life into pure beautiful frenzy?
Here they are: The Season Standard. 4 young Berliners - without child prodigy background, without jazz education, without fashion
understanding, without stylists, without industry in the nape - casually outshining every progressive band, fooling every rock group,
lapping every electro-guru unintentionally and besides having the ability to entertain entire Las Vegas... unwashed and without fresh
panties.
This here is new music, my friends! This is the big challenge in 2008, music of the 21st century, the moment of truth: Do we have the
ability to internalize what is happening here? Are we ready to accept new patterns? Do we need to do all this?
For The Season Standard it would be easy to blast us away completely with an album as a consequent continuation of their 2006
EP "Caudle Cameo". An EP that showed a high portion of new school hardcore in combination with a jazzy weird form of funk and
couldn't deny a certain proximity to The Dillinger Escape Plan. Now for all those fans, who longed for such a continuation, a
gingerbread-middlefinger.
"I hear a breeze whispering the weather changes"
"Squeeze Me Ahead Of Line", an album produced in Berlin, Hanover and Scotland, begins quietly - unexpectedly cool-headed and
detached for a full-length-debut. Then a sudden toolesque rock-outbreak in the middle of the smooth opener "A Seadog Grotesque".
This outbreak stays less than ten seconds and should remain a rarity in the following course of the album. That doesn't mean that
this is a quiet album, oh no. It pulsates and runs perpetually in tremendous dynamics. Every instrument is on an internal hunt. Every
component leaves tracks. Every element is in bright excitement.
For instance what drummer Simon Beyer does with his instrument is sheer impossible if there wouldn't be such an astonishing
evidence in form of this album. This man is a phenomenon. Actually his head and his eight arms threaten to explode any time. And
yes, he really plays all that on acoustic drums. The rhythm section still does not come vigorously and nerve-killing to the fore (here
also the queer fellow and storytelling bassist Robert Koppisch should be mentioned). It melts with the flowing stream of every
element in the TSS-collective. Singer and guitarist Mathias Jähnig holds this insanity together and gives a certain pop-appeal to this
music that is so unrecognisably complicated behind the curtain. He does not sound like the furious and snorting squaller on the EP
anymore, more like a young Prince or a batty cynical Timberlake. His singing sounds sometimes like a Japanese ringtone
commercial and then again like four Central-African clans all at once, but mostly he simply sounds beautiful and stirring. Guitarist
and organist Daniel Scherf gives a rounding ambience to this quartet and provides some deeply moving spheric moments.
And if you were to look back, you would see landscape, the tracks would have long been covered up...
Now, how to define this music which contains a legion of incredibly complex constructs and still "comes along so shamelessly easygoing " (030 magazine). Genres like progressive, mathrock, jazz, hardcore, funk, pop, electronica or the avantgarde struggling for validity to remove the field to the unspoken at last, nevertheless, miffed. This music reminds us of how it is to be totally overwhealmed and steamrollered by twisted sounds-how it is having the total will to comprehend and follow every single tone of this surreal spectacle.
The 9 masterpieces on "Squeeze Me Ahead Of Line " have been produced by Markus Reuter (Tuner, centrozoon) and were mixed
by Fabio Trentini in the Horus Studios Hanover, Germany. A prominent guest appearance is to be registered on the balladesque
"Tisa ": Trey Gunn (Ex-King-Crimson) on the Touch Guitar. This all star team is joined by Denis Blackham, who mastered this album
in Scotland and already has given artists like Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, Talk Talk, Fennesz or Yes the necessary fine-tuning in the
sound. A propos sound: Did we mention that the sound has the strength to carry a tongue from the mouth to the ground?
How this amazing band finds attentive ears is now your and our task. More preliminary work is simply impossible and in spite of this
unbelievable virtuosity and those intricate constructs, the music of The Season Standard still is: In an unusual kind catchy, in an
even more unusual kind sexy and above all unique. The most idiosyncratic way to blow up a ballroom. Here you go!