31Knots - The Days and Nights of Everything Anywhere

The Days and Nights of Everything Anywhere

Release Date: March 6, 2007

Portland, Oregon's prolific 31Knots have described its sound as "post-apocalyptic Vaudevillian punk," and while that's an apt description, it doesn't begin to express the level of demented pop brilliance on the band's fourth full-length, The Days and Nights of Everything Anywhere.

From the stuttering sequenced intro of the opener "Beauty" to the airy ambient ending of the closer "Walk With Caution," The Days and Nights of Everything Anywhere is the complete realization of the sound 31Knots has been working toward for the last nine years.

Thanks to an expert mixing job by Deerhoof's Greg Saunier and engineering by Jay Pellicci, 31Knots have transformed their musical landscape into a skewed fantasy world located somewhere between Alice In Wonderland and Cursive's Happy Hollow.

Reviews

there is ample substantive music here, borneout of challenging expressions and executed with skill.

- Delusions of Adequacy
Joe Haege, Jay Winebrenner, and Jay Pellicci have taken their biggestartistic leap yet.

- Amplifier
It's damn risky, likening a band to both Fugazi and King Crimson. But hell, 31Knots manage to marry the bestelements of both.

- Filter
The word ‘prog' gets bandied about habituallythese days. 31Knots play challenging rock music, but it's caustic and trulyprogressive, with an opinion and an urgency backing up its trickery.

- Under the Radar
There are a plenty of bands that consistentlymake good records. Rarer, however, is the band that consistently releasesalbums that are better than the previous, without those previous albums beingleft in the shade. Sleater-Kinneyfell into that category, and so does Wilco.Add 31Knots to the list. For thepast several years they've been making albums of ornate and exciting andintelligent rock that just keeps getting better.

- The PhiLL(er)