Princeton releases new album

LA's pop minimalists Princeton are pleased to release their second full-length album, Remembrance of Things To Come. Available today on Hit City U.S.A./Easter Everywhere, the ten-track LP includes a collection of complex arrangements and contrasts as featured in standout singles such as "To The Alps", "Florida", "Remembrance of Things To Come" and more. To celebrate the release, Princeton is making the full record available for streaming.



Listen to "Remembrance of Things To Come" here from Paste Magazine.

In addition to the stream, Princeton is also releasing Camera Obscura's light and spacey remix of the title track for free download. February 22nd, the band kicks off its West Coast tour in San Francisco, CA with a performance at Noise Pop Festival. A full list of dates is below.


Somewhere along the line, Matt and Jesse Kivel's creative perfectionism challenged them to stretch their songwriting beyond pop music and into the avant-garde. For Princeton's sophomore LP, Remembrance of Things to Come, the identical twin brothers shed the traditional rock-writing tropes-multiple chord changes, verse/chorus key shifts and electric guitar-that guided their 2009 debut LP, Cocoon of Love. Choosing instead to obsessively focus upon compositional patterns, dynamic rhythms and dense percussion orchestrations. The hypnosis of classical minimalism and its short, repetitive phrases became an artistic compulsion, and blending it with electronic dance music provided the conceptual genesis for Princeton's new aural direction. So began a redefining of what the band was to become. Perfection, they learned, is not achieved when there is nothing more to add but when there is nothing left to take away.



Employing the help of the seven-piece Los Angeles New Music Ensemble, Matt and Jesse Kivel hardly played instruments on the tracks as complex arrangements were layered over Ben Usen's syncopated piano and David Kitz's meticulous drumming. In the end, 18 songs were recorded and the 10 most cohesive pieces were chosen for the final album. They titled it after the thematic opener, "Remembrance of Things to Come". The final result is an intricate pop opus that stretches the band's ambitious vision and vital impulses.



Live Dates:

Feb. 22 - San Francisco, CA - The Independent*

Feb. 27 - Portland, OR - Mississippi Studios

Feb. 28 - Seattle, WA - Tractor Tavern

Mar. 01 - Salt Lake City, UT - In the Venue

Mar. 02 - Avon, CO - Snowball Music Festival

Mar. 10 - Phoenix, AZ - Lo Fi Coffee House

Mar. 13-18 - Austin, TX - SXSW

*Noise Pop Festival



Tracklisting:

1. Remembrance Of Things To Come

2. Florida

3. Grand Rapids

4. Holding Teeth

5. Phase

6. To The Alps

7. Oklahoma

8. Andre

9. Riches

10. Louise



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