LYRICS

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Following last June's eponymous debut ("rooted in psych-folk but looking dreamily forward -Exclaim!), these 14 new tracks were recorded live-off-the-floor, with simultaneous vocals and instrumentals performed to loops and samples. Captured over the course of 3 days in December 2009 by Colin Stewart (Black Mountain, Destroyer, Sleepy Sun) at the Hive studios, using zero overdubbing; "Fools" has been a work in progress since early 2008, when Rodrigo Falcao and Monashee Sun began composing together.

As with their first album, these songs got their start in the wild (F and M lived for a time on Galiano Island), but the loops and words have been further shaped by time in the city, with the duo spending this past fall experimenting in Vancouver; (some lyrics date back to the island, while one song was finished in-studio). Fools was also recorded shortly before Falcao received his Canadian Citizenship, having immigrated from Brazil.

Continuing the same bass, keys, harp, banjo, violin, mandolin, and drums from their debut, and introducing a Moog Freq Box ("Inner Journey"), Kootenay Mountain Dulcimer ("Investigative"), and looped accordion ("Kathmandu"); Falcao and Monashee additionally sample old sleigh bells ("Merry Go Round"), tibetan cymbals ("Casbah"), bell plates ("Fighting Challenge"), a gong ("Valentine"), and a few more instruments (mostly recorded at a farm around Halloween 2009 in the Mountains of British Columbia), plus a couple of clips taken from Youtube (Tibetan Longhorns from the Himalayas, and a speech by Queen Elizabeth II of England) and some city birds ("Hollywood Cigarettes..."). Vintage plate reverb on the dual vocals lends to the dark, swirling atmosphere of the songs.

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