BIO:
Malajube is proud to present their much-awaited new album: La caverne. Two years after Labyrinthes' release, this album takes us back in Le compte complet territories, the first Malajube album, with its pop inclinations and the urgency that flows throughout the tracks. The band showcased all their features: raw energy, hyperactive melodies, cavernous textures, creative structures, spontaneity and attention to details.
In a ruthless world, Malajube do it their way, cloud the issue and present a surprisingly happy and driven with an urgency to live. From the Stone Age to the Plastic Age, between prehistoric times and show-bizness. A carefully chosen selection of borrowed pop elements to create a sonic drug. A retro-futuristic musical mixture, pleasantly irreverent and animal-like. The quartet (Thomas Augustin, Francis Mineau, Mathieu Cournoyer and Julien Mineau) took the writing, recording and production of La caverne's 10 titles in their own hands. Ryan Battistuzzi, their long-time collaborator, mixed the album. Recorded in Morin Heights, Quebec, in a "geodesic modern cavern, with multiple triangular faces", says the band.
ABOUT MALAJUBE
With the release of their debut record Le compte complet (2004), Malajube literally took over the indie rock scene, and have drawn a wide amount of praise with their second album Trompe-l’Oeil (2006), a masterpiece that found its way of springing out of the already artistically rich local music scene, with their unique and original sound. Labyrinthes (2009) confirmed that the band was one of the most prolific and talented bands from Montreal (Olivier Lalande, Nightlife Magazine, February 2009). Mark the date on your calendar, April 19 2011, Malajube releases La caverne, its long awaited fourth studio album.
In addition of proudly winning five Felix awards over the years in their native province of Quebec, the latest for Alternative Album of the Year in 2009, Malajube was nominated twice for the Polaris Music Prize, Trompe-l’Oeil and Labyrinthes having made the short list. The band has toured relentlessly the country and abroad playing hundreds of shows in Canada, in Europe, in the United States and Japan, visiting festivals and events such as the SXSW, CMJ Music Marathon, Osheaga, Les Eurockéennes and Les Francofolies de Montréal, turning on industry heads and listeners alike. Regardless of the language barrier, Malajube’s discography, especially Trompe-l’Oeil, pleased critics from all around; The New York Times, NME, Pitchfork, Brooklyn Vegan, Wired, Fader, Filter, Spin, Penthouse, Men’s Health Journal, Vanity Fair and more, all praising Malajube’s music in unison.
CONTACT:
LAUREN FLEMING
LINKS:
OFFICIAL WEBSITE
MB3 RECORDS STORE
MYSPACE
VIDEO
Rock Ton casse-croûte avec Malajube (Épisode 1) from Scène 1425 on Vimeo.
Malajube || Synesthésie [vidéoclip officiel] from Dare To Care Records on Vimeo.
TOUR
September 16th || New York, NY || Mercury Lounge *
September 17th || Brooklyn, NY || The Rock Shop ^
September 21st || Los Angeles, CA || The El Rey %
October 1st || Minneapolis, MN || Triple Rock Social Club #
October 2nd || Madison, WI || High Noon Salon #
October 4th || Chicago, IL || Lincoln Hall #
October 5th || Kalamazoo, MI || The Strutt #
October 6th || Cleveland, OH || Beachland Ballroom & Tavern #
October 7th || Philadelphia, PA || Johnny Brenda's #
October 8th || Hartford, CT || Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art #
* - with Brian Bonz
^ - with Les Sans Culottes, Johnny Chan & The New Dynasty 6
% - with Patrick Watson, The Besnard Lakes & The Barr Brothers
# - with The Besnard Lakes
TOUR
"With Malajube, anything is possible. The music is pretty, chaotic, playful, and catchy as hell. -Seattle Weekly a near-perfect pop record."
-Montreal Mirror
“Malajube are five hairy dudes from Montreal who make an exalted racket like Broken Social Scene at their poppiest, or Super Furry Animals at their most raucous.”
- NME
"the band has exhibited a knack for fusing psychedelia, prog- and classic-rock, disco, and new wave into exuberant, easily grasped big-tent indie pop"
-Pitchfork
"The foursome has an impressively large musical skill set: They can deliver strummy, melodic power-pop full of jangly guitars and spry, bouncing rhythms. Then they can turn on a dime and dish up noisy indie-rock fuelled by driving beats and big chords. Or they can shift gears again into proggy art-rock, skanking reggae, rich Beatle-pop or a host of other styles. And all of it's topped with vocals that can literally move from a whisper to a scream in a heartbeat."
Darryl Sterdan, Sun Media, M for Métropolis review, November 2009
"Rien à faire, Malajube continue de dominer le peloton rock franco avec une avance presque inquiétante."
Olivier Lalande, Nightlife Magazine, février 2009
"[...] but the band remains one of the more musically intriguing acts to come out of Canada in recent years, an improbable but compelling mix of catchy power-pop and prog-rock [...] Their set was by far the tightest of the bands I saw at the M For Montreal showcase, if not the most energetic"
Andy Hermann, Metromix New York, CMJ October 2009 Review
"After a few drinks and a palatable opening act, we were finally treated to the mind-blowing experience that is a Malajube concert."
Sophie Sheldrick, Beat Magazine, London, ON November 3rd 2009 Show review