Description
Then is the New Now is the third album by the American indie rock band Denison Marrs, released on Floodgate Records in 2002, distributed by Word Entertainment and WEA. The album was recorded by Matt Goldman during February and March 2002 at his Glow In The Dark Studios, Atlanta, Georgia, and was produced and recorded by Denison Marrs and Goldman. Mixed by Matt Goldman and Tom Lewis.
The cover of “Send Me An Angel” on this release is a different recording from the one found on Denison Marrs’ 7-inch single with the same name.
This Florida foursome have been knocking around since 1995 but this is their first major label album (their third in all) on a major label. Distributed by Warners into the mainstream, it is climbing America’s CMJ (college music) chart as I write, apparently impacting beyond the Christian bookshop circuit. Mentioned in the same breath as The Juliana Theory and Starflyer 59 by US critics, Brits will also detect shades of The Cure or Idlewild, mainly due to the goth-influenced vocals of Eric Collins. There’s no mucking around as the band dive into dense, guitar-layered rock with Collins’ passionate melodies regularly surfacing for air. They wait until the penultimate track, «Keep It Cool», to calm things a little, the singer begging Christ to unlock the secret of enemy loving. But that’s before the band move up a gear for the seven-minute rock crescendo of «Psalm 148». Falling somewhere between power pop and metal, Denison Marrs squeeze every ounce of energy into this CD as if their life depends on it. Now could be their time. [Peter Bate, Cross Rhythms, November 2002]
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CD tracklist:
01. What Life Has – 3:37
02. You Feel Like – 4:03
03. The Real Ones – 4:01
04. This Is All The Time – 3:14
05. This Must Be Love – 4:15
06. Rescue Mission – 3:48
07. Pow! – 2:57
08. Send Me An Angel – 3:59
09. Keeping It Cool – 4:17
10.1 Ps148 – 9:25
10.2 Untitled – 4:26
Note: The first 5000 copies were released as digipak with individual numbering. “Ps148” ends at about 7:25, and the instrumental hidden track begins at about 9:25.
The September/October 2002 issue of HM Magazine featured a cover story on Denison Marrs.
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