INSOUND RECOMMENDED. In late 2003, with more than 20 songs completed, The Race approached electronic duo Telefon Tel Aviv to help produce a new record. Over the course of two months, The Race and Telefon broke down the music to its essential elements and then began to build it back up again. The Race's preference for simple song structures and dynamically powerful writing, combined with the exquisite production of Telefon Tel Aviv, has resulted in the stunningly beautiful "If You Can." From the opening pia...   [ read more ]

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The race's THE PERFECT GIFT weds an introverted quietude with a subversive sense of pop ? new members and more seductive songs wrangle the spirit and panache of This Heat, the effulgent melodies of The Beach Boys and the unwittingly gothic heartbreak of Tim Buckley. The bright, shattered polyphonies of old have become smoothed and rounded, buffeted by new influence and old intuition. Imagine Smile-era recordings played in the woods alone rather than on the bright, populous beaches of California. But...   [ read more ]

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The Making of Exiles As told by Craig Klein of The Race: We were touring on our last record Ice Station (2007, Flameshovel), and spent several weeks on the road in our van the Black Boat frying in the Southwestern sun in places like Pecos, Abilene, Gila Bend, Imperial Sands, Needles...Exhausted late one night we tried to find a motel room near Odessa. Without so much as looking up from her tabloid the prickly front desk clerk of the lone motel in town says, 'Everyone's looking for a room tonight, son. We g...   [ read more ]

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