Rebecca Gates + the Consortium are set to return with their first album in eleven years, The Float, out June 12 via 12XU/Parcematone.
Gates is best known for her work in the '90s with The Spinanes who released three full-length records on Sub Pop and one for Merge before Gates went solo for 2001's Ruby Series on Badman Recording Co. After a successful tour supporting Stereolab across North America, Gates decided it was time to start a new chapter in life. Already involved with the Chicago contemporary visual and sound art scene Gates began investigating various modes of thinking about sound and design. Gates curated The Marfa Sessions, Co-founded 'The Relay Project', exhibited art and lectured in North America and Europe. She also leant her voice to albums by such artists as Califone, Ted Leo, Laetitia Sadier, The Decemberists, Willie Nelson, The Minus Five, The Aluminum Group, The Mekons and Joan of Arc.
The recording of The Float began in the fall of 2004 and continued, in fits and starts, through the fall of 2011. Gates says it was a process "spurred on by engineers and peers". Indeed, the list of musicians is impressive and includes members of Califone, The Decemberists, Godspeed You Black Emperor, The Jicks, Iron and Wine, Los Lobos, Tortoise, Silver Mt. Zion, The Sea and Cake, Wild Flag, Eleventh Dream Day, Blue Cranes and Portland Cello Project. "The Float", written near the Atlantic, the Pacific, on ranches and old bank buildings in west Texas, in the mountains of Vermont and during the travels in-between, showcases Gates love of space, sound, and rock 'n' roll.
The Float track listing:
1. Van Noten 007
2. Tips On Spines
3. &&&
4. Rose
5. Harlesden To Vals
6. Lease And Flame
7. Lighter Than We Go
8. Claudine Lounges Chiklet Chic
9. The Curl Of The Coast
10. Suite Sails
11. Slowed Lowed Lowered
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Vinyl release: 12XU Records 038-1 http://www.12xu.net
All other formats : Parcematone Presents www.parcematone.com
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