: ' .. .:.... . ' ' ______________ : ________ : ' \ / .. .:. .. \ / : : \ /_________ \ / . .. ... .. . : .\ / /___ /\ \ / ______________ ___ _. : \ / / \ / \ \/ / \ \ \ \ \ . ...:..\ / _______/ \/ \ ___/__ / / / / / : /\ / / \ \/ \ / / / . sH! ' / \/ / / / \ / / . ... .:.... .. . :/ _______/ / / / _______/__ ___ __ .\ / / / / / / / / / / / \ / / / / / / / / / / / . . \ /\______/ / / / / \___ / / : \/ ____ \ / / / / / : \ / \ /\____/\ / / : : ________\/ \ / \ / / : ' \ / \/ \ /\ / : . ..:.. . \ / \/ \ / \ / \ / . ' : \/ F A N G \ / : ' ____ \ / . . .. .. .:.. . \ / presents \ / . . \/ \/ : : . ..:.. , : Artist......: Hollerado : Album.......: Retaliation Vacation : : Label.......: Royal Mountain Records .. .:.. . Genre.......: Indie : Catnr.......: RMR-111-2 . ' Source......: CD , ; Rip.date....: 2019-06-12 Str.date....: 2019-06-07 Quality.....: 268kbps/44.1kHz/Joint Stereo . :.. .:. Url.........: http://www.hollerado.com/ ' ' , ________ ________ \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / # title time \ / \/ \/ 1. Straight To Hell 3:12 2. Speechless 4:11 3. Days Without Sugar 3:38 4. Time on Earth 3:26 5. SOS 3:42 6. King Kong 3:31 7. Get Over It 3:42 8. One Last Time 3:35 9. Back To The Start 4:16 10. A Little Touch of Madness 5:33 ______ \ / ________ Runtime 38:46 ,\ /... . . .... .... \ / ' Size 78.20 ______ :\/ ', \ / , \ / ' '... ..\ /.. .. .....:. .. .... .. . ..\ /. : Release Notes: \/ , \/ , ' ' ,: After being in a band for over a decade, Hollerado :, : singer/guitarist Menno Versteeg has finally discovered the : :' perfect remedy for taking the stress out of the recording ': ,: process: Just break up. :, : : :' ': ,: HolleradoÆs fourth album, Retaliation Vacation, once again finds :, : the band positioned in the centre of a Venn diagram comprising : :' Æ70s power-pop, Æ80s New Wave and Æ90s bubble-grunge. But in ': ,: light of the news that the Toronto-via-Ottawa quartet would be :, : packing it in at the end of 2019, the record sees them more : :' eager to stray outside the lines, both musically and lyrically. ': ,: In their case, the decision to deep-six the band has, :, : ironically, invested them with renewed vim and vitality. : :' ': ,: :, : ôWeÆre a band thatÆs always lived and died by the radio in terms : :' of finding fans,ö Versteeg tells Apple Music. ôWhen we were ': ,: writing our last record [2017Æs Born Yesterday], we were like, :, : æDo we have two singles on here that radioÆs going to play?Æ And : :' we didnÆt stop writing the record until we did. With this one, ': ,: we stopped caring, but in a good way. We wanted to say whatever :, : we felt like and do whatever we wanted. We donÆt give a f**k : :' about anything now!ö ': ,: :, : : :' By VersteegÆs own admission, Retaliation Vacation doesnÆt ': ,: ôreinvent the Hollerado wheel.ö But in sharp contrast to :, : signature feel-good sing-alongs like ôJulietteö, Retaliation : :' Vacation sees Versteeg wading into social commentary: The ': ,: arms-aloft anthem ôSpeechlessö is written from the perspective :, : of a father who lost a child in a school shooting, while the : :' cheeky, almost rap-like verses of ôDays Without Sugarö tee up ': ,: an indictment of Western gluttony and ambivalence. :, : : :' ôItÆs definitely less of a party-funtime record than the ': ,: Hollerado of old,ö Versteeg says. ôI like Hollerado to be all :, : about good times and confetti and explosions, and serve as a : :' little bit of a departure from reality. But the songs that were ': ,: coming out of us for this record felt almost a little too heavy :, : for this project.ö : :' ': ,: :, : To bring a little levity to these topical tracks, Versteeg : :' enlisted a local school choir he sourced via Google search. ': ,: (ôWe didnÆt want the parents and kids to see where we actually :, : record, so we got a really nice, expensive studio for a dayùand : :' now they have a totally wrong view of what an indie band ': ,: recording process looks like.ö) But on Retaliation Vacation, :, : such decorative embellishments ultimately serve to reinforce the : :' thematic concerns of the record, with the kids giving voice to ': ,: the social ills of a world theyÆll eventually inherit. And if :, : Retaliation Vacation makes no explicit mention of HolleradoÆs : :' impending demise, certain sonic details underscore the air of ': ,: finality. As the funky jangle disco of the closing ôA Little :, : Touch of Madnessö cruises out towards the sunset in a ripple of : :' overlapping guitar solos, the song is gradually sucked into a ': ,: dubbed-out abyss, and weÆre treated to the sound of a band :, : slowly disintegrating right before our ears. : :' ': ,: :, : ôWe started out as a band with no expectations at all,ö Versteeg : :' says. ôWe were just four people jamming. And we were total ': ,: compulsive noodlers, to our own detrimentùall our career, we had :, : to rein in our noodling tendencies. So for that song, we were : :' just like, æF**k it! This is our last song, on our last ': ,: recordùnoodle time!'ö :, : : :' ': : ' '.. ..' .. . :........... . . . . ............: . . ______________ ______________ \ / \ / \ / Shout out to all our homies from: \ / \ / \ / \ / iPC BOSS HiT2000 1way UKi i8 RNS \ / \ / RAGEMP3 MANDY DV8 pLAN9 BUTT \ / \ / \ / \/ ____ ____ \/ \ / F A N G \ / \/ 2 0 1 9 \/