Uncontrollable Salvation, by Pardoner

Uncontrollable Salvation

by Pardoner

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Pre-order of Uncontrollable Salvation. You get 2 tracks now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.

releases September 8, 2017

$10 USD or more
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

This is the limited edition variant of "Uncontrollable Salvation" by the band Pardoner. It is only available through Father/Daughter Records. A Blood Red record is perfect to spin at a Halloween party or with your lover on Valentine's Day. Comes with download card and a full color insert.

Includes digital pre-order of Uncontrollable Salvation. You get 2 tracks now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.

digital album releases September 8, 2017

item ships out on or around September 7, 2017

edition of 200

$15 USD or more
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

Does the sight of blood make you queasy? We have a black variant too. Pressed with the hottest of black vinyl biscuits for your listening pleasure. Comes with download card and a full color insert.

Includes digital pre-order of Uncontrollable Salvation. You get 2 tracks now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.

digital album releases September 8, 2017

item ships out on or around September 7, 2017

$15 USD or more
Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

CD version of Uncontrollable Salvation for the true MP3 heads out there. Comes with an immediate digital download, too.

Includes digital pre-order of Uncontrollable Salvation. You get 2 tracks now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.

digital album releases September 8, 2017

item ships out on or around September 7, 2017

$10 USD or more

1.	Blue Hell 03:21	buy track
2.	Hint
3.	Outdoor Excursion
4.	Hey Rockstar
5.	Carousel of Punishment
6.	Pivot Fakie
7.	Labrador
8.	My Sorry Ass
9.	Uncontrollable Salvation 03:22	buy track
10.	Don't Stop Believin' In Me

about

It’s hard to believe that Pardoner is the first time Max Freeland and Trey Flanigan have ever played guitar in a band before. Not only do they seem to have an endless repository of ideas, but they play together like a single unit. Only drummer River van den Berghe has any prior experience, having briefly played in several high school projects before meeting the other members as students at San Francisco State University. A mutual interest in Yo La Tengo and Polvo records sparked their own experiments, and by 2015 they’d started their own band and moved in together, hammering out songs on unplugged electric guitars in their living room. In the two years since then they’ve brought their own version of 90’s alt rock into sharper focus, and made seemingly exponential leaps in songwriting across EP’s. Pausing only briefly from a relentless performance schedule that’s seen the band play several times in the same week, they added Will Mervau on bass and entered the studio to record what would become 2017’s Uncontrollable Salvation.

The 45-minute LP pulls no punches, doubling down on the driving intensity of their earlier work and paying homage to heroes and contemporary experimenters alike (one could make a Sonic Youth and a Dinosaur Jr. comparison and both would be apt). However, there’s a simultaneous disaffection and technical prowess that makes the music distinctly ‘Pardoner’, placing them at the curious intersection of slacker-rock and punk, a space where songs are as fun as they are angst-ridden. On standout tracks like “Blue Hell” and “Hey Rockstar” you get the charming combination of hooky guitar work and goofy, taunting one-liners. Lines like “I’m a good boy today, putting my toys away” and “my boss gave me a raise, money’s healthy for the brain” turn into strangely cathartic sing-alongs at shows. The band move together in pummeling lockstep, only pausing for the proper drum fill to signal their next movement. The albums uncompromising 7-½ minute closing track somehow manages to juxtapose violent guitar riffs with an expansive, rock opera outro before abruptly concluding. Uncontrollable Salvation brims with energy, ideas, and the lurking anxiety of change, but the tension is no match for the right combination of distortion and cathartic drums.

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releases September 8, 2017

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Father/Daughter Records San Francisco, California

Declared a safe haven for misfit pop bands, Father/Daughter Records is an independent record label owned and operated by Jessi Frick and her father Ken Hector. Since forming in 2010, the label has become known as an incubator for new artists, notably releasing early records by Mutual Benefit, Pure Bathing Culture, Diet Cig, Vagabon, and Cayucas. ... more