With the completion and imminent release of their first full length recording Atlantis, Oh Our Saviour The Rest have guided their eclectic personal tastes into an album that captures each individual's ambitions, while at the same time creating a singular unique musical vision.
The Rest is a musical concoction hailing from Canada. They consist of 6 core members, and a 7th member who can sophisticatedly (!) read music. A friend's grandmother's Organ follows them around, and has become a guardian for all of their musical instruments, making sure they behave on and off the stage, but it can't stop drum parts from running away, they're too free spirited. When all of the instruments are kept together the band plays all over the place, having performed with Deerhoof, Final Fantasy, Great Lake Swimmers, Junior Boys, Jason Collett, The Russian Futurists, Saturday Looks Good To Me, just to name a few, a few you might recall or remember.
In the fall of 2005 they set out from their suburban family farms' cellars to a converted church named Catharine North Studios. This is where they would spend a good deal of time recording Atlantis, Oh Our Saviour, having push-up contests, water gun fights, and eating delicious Thai food. The end result is a cacophony that melds with reverberated bliss creating a calculated pandemonium, a recording that howls and whispers its secrets simultaneously, creating a stream of spellbinding modern hymns that drift into the listeners consciousness, melodies that refuse to be kept away once found. Reminiscent of so much and so much more, the album is The Rest's first statement that will keep both the starry-eyed hermits and razor-sharp socialites' imaginations alive, and possibly even their own.
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