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Fire in the Palm of my Hand
Thank God for the Evening News

Brooklyn, NY—January 4, 2007—Brooklyn-based artist Andrew Spencer Goldman will release his debut album under the Fulton Lights moniker on March 6, 2007 on both the Android Eats and Catbird Records labels. Fulton Lights is the work of an artist with a stunning and open breadth of vision with potent charms that reveal more of themselves with each listen.

Download: Fulton Lights—“Thank God For the Evening News” MP3

Download: Fulton Lights—“Fire in the Palm of My Hand” MP3

The self-titled debut from Fulton Lights, brainchild of Brooklyn NY’s Andrew Spencer Goldman (John Guilt, Maestro Echoplex), is a big-sounding but hazy-feeling slow-burner of a record very much the product of the city it calls home. New York’s manic and sublime energy —sometimes majestic, sometimes claustrophobic, often both—radiates throughout these forty-four minutes of music that took over three years to create. The album achieves an unusual feat: Fulton Lights subtly rumbles, roars, screeches and buzzes while retaining melody and structure and leaving room for Goldman’s expressive voice and elemental piano/organ/guitar parts.

Goldman’s first move was to team up with similarly broad-minded Oktopus (aka Alap Momin) of the noisy hip-hop group dälek, who helped with the initial tracking of several songs and co-produced “Thank God for the Evening News,” one of the album’s standouts with its sampled beats, papery vocals, ghostly strings, and muted horn blasts. After completing a demo with Momin in early 2004, Goldman took Fulton Lights back to the lab to map out the rest of the album. He then assembled a frighteningly talented group of friends who have played and/or recorded with Wilco, The Walkmen, Tony Conrad, Beth Orton, Jon Langford, Ida, Aloha, Demander, The Hold Steady, among others, and two outstanding producers/engineers: noisemakers extraordinaire Steve Silverstein of Christmas Decorations (Community Library Records, Kranky Records), and Rob Christiansen (East Ghost West Ghost, Sisterhood of Convoluted Thinkers, Eggs). Both Silverstein and Christiansen helped to record the album, to contribute essential performances, and, most importantly, to act as sounding boards on the long road to the finish line. Goldman also turned to Still, former DJ of dälek, to help co-produce the ominous album intro and the dark and intense “1,000 Little Eyes,” built on dense and disorienting layers (and layers, and layers) of processed samples and a single repeated guitar chord.

The end result is an album sonically vast but surprisingly subtle—both lyrically and musically. Many of the songs on Fulton Lights have big, RZA-and-DJ Krush-influenced minimalist hip-hop beats (that old reliable boom-bap, none of this newfangled IDM-influenced stuff), lush string arrangements that hint at John Cale or Isaac Hayes, piano and organ, beds of noise, upright bass, vibraphone, and guitars, all sitting nicely behind Goldman’s tinted vocals. All told, it's a hell of a lot more varied, nuanced, and noisy then his earlier work with folky outfits John Guilt and Maestro Echoplex, and in its experimental attitude Fulton Lights is a closer spiritual sibling to contemporary bands like Califone, TV on the Radio, and Grizzly Bear. But as with the best work of those bands, Fulton Lights still recognizes the importance of making the song come first.

"Fulton Lights' debut is a cycle of songs that are deceptively sweet-edged, but indelibly tough. They echo through the mind with a nostalgia that refuses to completely commit to the way we live." --John Szwed, author of biographies on Miles Davis and Sun Ra and the winner of the 2006 Grammy Award for Best Liner Notes

Fulton Lights
1. Intro
2. Thank God For the Evening News
3. 1000 Little Eyes
4. The Sound of the City
5. The Monkey On Our Backs
6. Fire In the Palm of My Hand
7. Autumn Anthem
8. Old Photographs
9. Breathe In, Breathe Out
10. The Sound of the City (reprise)

Running time: 44.3 minutes

Release Date: March 6, 2007

Android Eats Records (www.androideatsrecords.com)/Catbird Records (www.catbirdrecords.com)

Limited Edition version (release date Feb. 6, 2007) features bonus disc with unreleased tracks, including remixes by Strategy (Kranky, Audio Dregs), Nick Forte (Soft Abuse, Schematic), and Still (Public Guilt, Ipecac).

Band Myspace: myspace.com/andrewspencermusic

Label website: http://www.androideatsrecords.com or http://www.catbirdrecords.com

For more information contact Lucas Jensen or Jon Polk: 706-543-9455 or publicity@teamclermont.com