Cargo Records

The Destruction Of Small Ideas + Escape From New York (Live CD + DVD)

"65daysofstatic have made their masterpiece, or something close to it; three albums in, in the most dirty, shallow decade of music we’ve known, who else can say that? A handful, not enough. The Destruction of Small Ideas is a weight, a tower of babel, a journey, learnings, understandings, communication, evolution. I’ve been waiting. I was promised this or something like it. The rise and fall. All so deep, so rich, so comically dynamic and detailed and powerful for it that it makes me want to cry. How to make a record. Play loud."

A 45 minute rush of tinnitus, contrary techno, fragile guitars, anti-social drum'n'bass in 7/4 and, if you listen carefully, the sound of 20,000 people finding rooms in their heads they never knew were there. The DVD accompanying this release is '65DOC' a road movie, captured by 65 conspirator Caspar Newbolt, over the course of the North American leg of the tour. Seven weeks of 65's Cure support shows, interweaved with their own headline shows, in the alternative/punk clubs, playing to the cute indie kids who came out to see them. Gasp at the audacity of a band so inarticulate they have to be subtitled! Laugh at the blind naivety of a band who have been on the road long enough to believe, that they are doing something that hasn't been done a thousand times before! Dance to the spectacle of 65daysofstatic twisting The Cure's lighting rig into spasms of strobe and confusion!

This release captures 65daysofstatic at a crossroads. With the last album behind them and their heads filling up with ideas, 65days move ever onwards. This is not just a sedge-way release. They have always shined their brightest as a live band and these recordings are the closest they have come so far to capturing that spark.