"Drift" ist das siebte Album der Brooklyner Rockgelehrten von THE MEN. Ihr letztes Album, das in Eigenregie veröffentlichte ,Devil Music" war der Sound einer Band, die durch die Hölle gegangen war, von vorn angefangen hatte und sich auf ihre Wurzeln stützte, um sich selbst wiederzuentdecken.

Mit ,Drift" kehren THE MEN zu ihrem Label Sacred Bones zurück und erforschen die Offenheit, die sie mit ,Devil Music" ausfindig gemacht hatten.

Die Songs auf ,Drift" weisen in verschiedene Richtungen; die Gemeinsamkeit ist, dass fast alle Tracks ohne hervorstechende E-Gitarre auskommen.

Die einzige Ausnahme, ,Killed Someone", ist ein pöbelnder Riff Rocker, der an die größten Momente der Band auf den mittlerweile zu Klassikern avancierten ,Leave Home" und ,Open Your Heart" Alben erinnert.

Der Rest der Tracks macht sich deutlich komplexere Pfade zu Eigen. Das Album wurde mit Travis Harrison (GUIDED BY VOICES) in den Serious Business Studios in Brooklyn auf Zweizoll-Tape aufgenommen.

Ein ganzer Haufen Instrumente kam zum Einsatz: Synthies, Streicher, Saxophon, Blasinstrumente, Harmonika und Tape Loops zusätzlich zu dem bekannten Trio aus Gitarre, Bass und Schlagzeug.

,Drift" macht riesige Schritte und bringt THE MEN zurück zum ersten Funken ihrer Schöpfung.

[ENG] "Drift" is the seventh full-length by Brooklyn-based NYC rock polymaths THE MEN.

The band's last album, the self-released "Devil Music", was the sound of a band who had been through hell hitting reset and looking to their roots to rediscover themselves.

On "Drift", The Men return to their longtime label Sacred Bones Records and explore the openness that "Devil Music" helped them find.

The immediately evident result of that exploration is the experimental quality of much of the material on "Drift".

Songwriters Mark Perro and Nick Chiericozzi chase their muses down a few dozen thrilling rabbit-holes over the course of the album's nine tracks.

The songs on "Drift" veer in a number of directions, but notably, almost none of them feature a prominent electric guitar.

The lone exception, "Killed Someone," is a rowdy riff-rocker, worthy of the finest moments of the band's now-classic "Leave Home" and "Open Your Heart" albums.

The rest of the album drives down stranger highways. "Secret Light" is an improvisation based on an old piano riff of Perro's.

"Maybe I'm Crazy"is a synth-driven dancefloor stomper for long after last call. "Rose on Top of the World" and "When I Held You in My Arms" are paisley-hued, psyched-out jams with big, beating hearts.

The album was recorded to 2" tape with Travis Harrison (Guided by Voices) at Serious Business Studios in Brooklyn.

A whole pile of instruments was involved - synths, strings, sax, steel, harmonica, tape loops, on top of the usual guitar, bass, and drums.

Unlike recent releases from The Men, there aren't many overdubs on Drift - a reflection of the personalities of its makers becoming less frantic, Chiericozzi suggests.

In fact, the band removed a lot of the additional parts they tried adding early on, giving the final product a bit of a ghostly feel.

The songs on "Drift" took giant leaps and trips from their beginnings only to find the band returning to the first spark of creation.