<html><body style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Hi fellow LAU's!<br><br>This is a kind of a small pre-release announcement of our new Album "Turnabout", in the next week it will be available in retail outlets and announced elsewhere but it's already on Soundcloud so I thought I'd post it here on LAU...<br>This was recorded and produced on Ardour 5 and utilizes a variety of FLOSS and Commercial plugins including Ardour Team, Harrison Consoles, linuxDSP/OverToneDSP, Guitarix, Calf, U-he + SWH, CAPS, TAP, Furse Ladspa's. We also did a lot of work with mic placements and ambient stairwell miking as well as simple line-delays for natural reverbs.<br><br>*ALBUM NOTES*<br><div class="sc-type-small">
<div><p>"Turnabout" is our second Rated Blue album release
following 2015's "Three Walls Down". Where "Three Walls Down" was
initially a collection of songs for posterity "Turnabout" is a more
cohesive collection influenced and written against the backdrop of the
2016 US Presidential Election (no we're not American but when the
neighbor's house is on fire you pay attention!!). Our core musical
inspiration remains the gut-level immediacy of the Blues within the
collaborative interactivity of a guitar trio but stylistically and
sonically Turnabout roams much farther afield than it's predecessor and
is probably best summed up as 'Alt-Blues'.</p><p>Turnabout opens with
"Straight Up" a funky inspired plea for the media to cut to the chase.
"The Second Sister" touches on gender and sexual equality. "When You Got
a Name" leans heavily toward Prog and examines lives left behind by the
cult of celebrity . The latin influenced title track "Turnabout" traces
the insidious rise of Reality TV and it's troubling consequences.
"Unsteady" surf-rocks out and rips on the unreliable nature of mavericks
and "You" questions a seeming lack of world leadership. "Man On a Wire"
closes the album with a collection of vignettes ending on an unresolved
chord.</p><p>If you are a Blues or Rock fan becoming weary of well-worn
Blues cliches and tiring of flashy virtuosity we invite you to give
this new release a listen and hope you'll find our 'songs-first'
mentality an appealing alternative within the Blues/Roots genre. Thanks
for reading (and listening). <br></p><p>Glen, Connor and Pete - Rated Blue</p><p>*ALBUM Link: https://soundcloud.com/rated-blue/sets/turnabout<br></p></div>
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