Joan of Arc to Release New Album

This entry was posted by harry s truman on Wednesday, March 11th, 2009 at 10:54 am.

On June 9th, Polyvinyl will release Flowers, a new full length album by Chicago’s prolific Joan of Arc.

“I think it’s harder for a band to make a tenth record than it is to make a first record,” says Tim Kinsella, who remains the one permanent member of the Joan of Arc lineup. “There is more freedom to be daring, but there is also your own standard to live up to and surpass.”

Over the course of a year, Flowers was recorded in four different sessions, with four different lineups, and mixed by Graeme Gibson (the current touring drummer for Fruit Bats, and a regular collaborator with Califone) at Chicago’s Clava Studios.

In late 2008, Kinsella and the latest incarnation of his live band entered the studio to complete the last batch of songs that would round out the album. With no instruments–and hardly any completed songs–the group simply did what felt right: they used what was available to all the musicians who had recorded there previously–pianos, acoustics, and synthesizers – to create a new batch of music after only two days.

[Altsounds]