The Suffocation Keep

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Home Page: www.thesuffocationkeep.com MySpace Page: www.myspace.com/thesuffocationkeep "Nelson and his Suffocation Keep posse craft some solid tunes, speckled with hooks, topped with epic choruses, and wholly unpretentious." -Pitchfork FROM ROLLING STONE: Suffocation Keep's Next Wave Built to Spill side project begin building simple pop Built to Spill bassist Brett Nelson's synth-drenched side project, the Suffocation Keep, entered a Boise, Idaho, studio last weekend to begin recording a follow-up to their May 14th debut release, John Hughes Was Never So Wrong. According to Nelson, who wrote John Hughes at home with his four-track and then recruited local musicians and friends to play on the album, the band has solidified, and the current sessions will result in an album that reflects the cohesion. "On the new songs," he says, "we have more input from everyone else as opposed to just my ideas. [Keyboardist] John Mullin writes his own songs, and we collaborate on a lot of stuff. And everyone contributed some ideas." Also, while the band rushed to finish John Hughes -- "We just had a small budget, and we wanted to get something out that we could sell on the road," says Nelson -- they'll take a full year to finish recording this time around. Through the five-piece Suffocation Keep Nelson (who sings and also plays keyboards) explores musical interests that fall outside the scope of the guitar-rock-oriented Built to Spill. "It's kind of a New Wave, Eighties sound -- which

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John Hughes Was Never So Wrong

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A Few Minor Modifications Of The Stars

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Dots to Connect

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Dots To Connect - The Music Of The Prids

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