Children Collide "The Long Now" Out Now

In 2005 Children Collide released We Three, Brave And True, a six-track EP that didn't so much announce the group's arrival as kick the door down, featuring the brilliant We Are Amphibious, the little b-side that could - and did, turning, reinvigorated, into the a-side of 2006's equally impressive Glass Mountain Liars EP. Now it's 2009 and FILTER is pleased to bring the 2008 Australian release, The Long Now, to the States!
 
This is a record that crackles with smarts and buzzes along with the undeniable sense of a band that knows where it's going, a band that sees your lazy references and questionable stylistic decisions and raises them - into another stratosphere - as Johnny (vocals/guitars), Heath (bass) and Ryan (drums) create a tumbling maelstrom of rock in excelsis. It's a record with its eye on the future and its feet in the present and its imagination crossing astral planes throughout it all.

With Dave Sardy (a veteran of such varied sessions as LCD Soundsystem, Wolfmother and Oasis) taking on production overlord duties, the album encompasses the many facets of the band's sound, all the while tying the songs together with a common thread, whether sonic or thematic. Far from backing the band into a corner with a ProTools rig and a tight schedule, Sardy became an equal collaborator as The Long Now came into being.

Children Collide have created an album that is as much a coming together of everything they've been working towards as it is an introduction to the band - which is precisely how the band wanted it to turn out. So yes, welcome to remedial Children Collide, study hard and you'll graduate to general Children Collide on album #2.

Accolades for The Long Now

Featured in Rolling Stone's Best Albums of 2008 at #17

Featured as Top Albums in 2008 in The Age

To Purchase on iTunes

To Listen

NORTH AMERICAN TOUR JUNE 2009:
Wed Jun 10 - The Casbah, San Diego CA
Thu Jun 11 - Spaceland, Los Angeles CA
Sat Jun 13 - Blank Club, San Jose CA
Sun Jun 14 - Peter's Room, Portland OR
Mon Jun 15 - Tractor's Tavern, Seattle WA
Thu Jun 18 - Sho, Salt Lake City, UT
Fri Jun 19 - Marquis Theatre, Denver CO
Sun Jun 21 - TBC, Chicago IL
Mon Jun 22 - Smalls, Detroit MI
Fri Jun 26 - Khyber, Philadelphia PA
Sat Jun 27 - Harpers Ferry, Allston MA
Sun Jun 28 - Mercury Bar, New York NY
Mon Jun 29 - DC9, Washington DC

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