Extra Life – Dream Seeds
Artist: Extra Life
Title: Dream Seeds
Catalog Number: NS 022
Format: CD, LP
Street Date: April 10, 2012
Extra Life’s first record for Northern Spy, Dream Seeds marks a dramatically new creative direction in the band’s still-young but prolific career. It is perhaps Extra Life’s most clearly-defined concept album : seven songs dealing entirely with the twin themes of dreams and children. In a lyrical left turn away from the morbid sexuality and black humor of Made Flesh, these songs look to the subconscious in search of innocence, morality and meaning. According to principal songwriter and elementary school teacher Charlie Looker, the lyrics began with a consecutive series of harrowing dreams involving children, all interconnected by recurring symbols. Claiming to be in some way spiritually reborn, Looker penned the songs while mining these dreams’ buried pasts and even watching in awe as some of their prophesies unfolded in all-too-real life. Alternately brutal and tender, haunted by ghosts of both the dead and the unborn, the songs of Dream Seeds express the violent yet redemptive collision of the Real and Psychic Worlds and an archaic belief in the divine truth of dreams.
Featured Artists:
Charlie Looker: vocals, synth, acoustic guitar
Caley Monahon-Ward: electric guitar, synth, electronics, violin, backing vocals
Nick Podgurski: drums, synth, electronics, backing vocals
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Press Quotes
“Extra Life are as damn near to perfect as music can be…” - The Organ
“Extra Life has been played on our Resonance FM radio on every single show this year so far…” - Resonance FM (London)
“Extra Life sounds nothing like any other band your listening to right now, and that makes them incredibly refreshing. If this is the direction that the Brooklyn music scene goes next, we’re in store for something wonderful.” - jonnyleather.com
Extra Life Tour Dates
| Date | City | Venue | Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tour: Extra Life EU/UK tour May/June 2012 | |||
| 05/18/12 | Extra Life in Leipzig | Ut Connewitz | Germany |
| Time: 8:00pm. Address: Wolfgang-Heinze-Str. 12A, 04277. Venue phone: +49 341/4626776. w/ High Places, Shokei, Andy Dixon/Secret Mommy, and mOck. Also a showing of “Wild Combination – A Portrait of Arthur Russell” | |||
| 05/19/12 | Extra Life in Berlin | Westgermany | Germany |
| Time: 8:00pm. Address: Skalitzer Str. 133, 10999 Berlin/Kreuzberg. | |||
| 05/20/12 | Extra Life in Aalborg | 1000 FRYD | Denmark |
| Time: 8:00pm. Address: Kattesundet 10, 9000. Venue phone: +45 98 13 72 55. | |||
| 05/21/12 | Extra Life in Gothenburg | Koloni | Sweden |
| Time: 8:00pm. Address: Heurlins Plats 1 413 01. | |||
| 05/22/12 | Extra Life in Oslo | Klubbscenen, Chateau Neuf | Norway |
| Time: 8:00pm. Address: Slemdalsveien 15, 0369. Venue phone: +47 22 84 45 11. | |||
| 05/23/12 | Extra Life in Stockholm | Mother at DFB (Debaser Slussen) | Sweden |
| Time: 8:00pm. Address: Karl Johans Torg 1, 111 30. Venue phone: +46 (0)8 30 56 20. | |||
| 05/24/12 | Extra Life in Copenhagen | KB18 | Denmark |
| Time: 8:00pm. Address: Kødboderne 18 1714 KBH V. Venue phone: +45 33313933. | |||
| 05/25/12 | Extra Life in Bielefeld | AJZ | Germany |
| Time: 8:00pm. Address: Heeper Str 132 33607. | |||
| 05/26/12 | Extra Life in Frankfurt | IVI | Germany |
| Time: 8:00pm. Address: Kettenhofweg 130 – University Campus Bockenheim 60325. Venue phone: 0176 71571351. | |||
| 05/27/12 | Extra Life in Dresden | Discorporate | Germany |
| Time: 8:00pm. Address: Scheune, Alaunstraße 36-40. | |||