Autistic Daughters
Jealousy and Diamond CD
(KRK76)
- A Boxful of Birds
- Florence Crown, Last Relay
- The Glasshouse and the Gift-Horse
- Rainy Day in June
- Spend it on the Enemy (While it was Raining)
- In Your Absence from the Street
- Jealousy and Diamond
Content: Be Mine Tonight came out in the autumn of 2003 and marked the return of Dean Roberts to visibility and record store shelves. Recorded at Amann studios in Vienna with bassist Werner Dafeldecker and drummer Martin Brandlmayer (who also plays in Trapist and Radian), Jealousy and Diamond sees Roberts returning to the band format. The name of the band is Autistic Daughters.
Created during live performance and processed and enhanced in the studio, the band's first release Jealousy and Diamond builds to higher volume levels than Be Mine Tonight, and turns on a more assertive rhythm section. Basic tracks were recorded in Vienna in April 2003 by Roberts, Dafeldecker and Brandlmayer. Roberts then recorded additional voices, guitars and miscellaneous instruments with Valerie Tricoli (who was a very crucial part of the Be Mine Tonight recordings) in Bologna, Italy in the autumn of 2003. With the members traveling and involved in multiple groups, the mastering of the album was completed in early summer 2004 by Patrick Pulsinger.
Context: All of the members of the group possess extensive credentials in improvisational, electronic and rock music. Dean Roberts has moved from the abstract electronics of All Cracked Medias, back towards song structure, and an able balance between these two poles characterized his last album, Be Mine Tonight. Jealousy and Diamond represents a more confident statement of purpose by Roberts, as well as the combustion that takes place in a working band.
Autistic Daughters plan on touring Europe in the autumn of 2004 and in early 2005. The album also includes a cover of Ray Davies' "Rainy Day in June" which operates as a marker, indicating the band's interest in working through and around song form.
