Veterans of Pleasure

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1.	The Last Nostalgia (free) 02:58	download
2.	King Vulture Vista 02:09	buy track
3.	Marseille Spleen 03:22	buy track
4.	Veteran of Pleasure 03:36	buy track
5.	Sunbathing 03:02	buy track
6.	Soft Moon Warm Spider 02:27	buy track
7.	Storming the Medical Frigate 02:34	buy track
8.	Subterranean Canine Cosmonauts 01:55	buy track
9.	That Other Place 03:12	buy track
10.	Top Hat Man 02:42	buy track
11.	Miami 03:46	buy track

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Hear the STNNNG's latest Steve Albini-produced golden noise
By Chris Riemenschneider APRIL 10, 2017 — 2:25PM

If you still don’t believe all the local musicians, critics, club staffers, record-store clerks, etc., who’ve been raving about Minneapolis’ frenzied noise-punk blasters the STNNNG and their smokestack lightning for a decade now, then will you at least believe Steve Albini?

The influential Nirvana, Pixies and PJ Harvey producer and Shellac band member with notoriously finicky taste put an exclamation point on his fondness for the quintet by returning to produce their fifth album, “Veterans of Pleasure.” It's out now digitally via Modern Radio and arrives on vinyl this week with a release party Friday at 7th Street Entry. Albini also produced the group’s prior album, 2013’s “Empire Inward,” to great results.

Like on the prior record, the legendary producer let the STNNNG do its thing without much polishing or sonic trickery on “Veterans,” which they recorded last year at his Chicago studio, Electrical Audio. But Albini’s knack for musical mayhem seems to draw out the best/wildest from maniacal frontman Chris Besinger and the band’s car-wreck-intertwined guitarists, Adam Burt and Nathan Nelson. Drummer Ben Ivascu has spent the past half-decade delivering more precise rhythms in Polica but hasn’t lost his knack for bashing away with abandon, as evidenced deep into the album on such tracks as “Storming the Medical Frigate” and the guitar-less charmer “Top Hat Man.”

Here’s the first single as well as the opening track from the record “The Lost Nostalgia” (posted below). The entire record is now streaming via Bandcamp. Friday’s Entry show is also a release party for fellow Am/Rep-style sonic youths Buildings and will feature additional noise by Gay Witch Abortion (9 p.m., $10).

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released April 1, 2017

Recorded at Electrical Audio in Chicago, IL.
Engineered by Steve Albini
Mastered at Chicago Mastering Service
Mastered by Bob Weston
Modern Radio Record Label (U.S.)
Rejuvenation Records (France)

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Adam Burt
Ben Ivascu
Jesse Kwakenat
Nathan Nelson

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