Press Release - The Normans CD-release at Cheapo Discs 6/1/07
by Brent Baldwin

Date: May 22, 2007

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Contact: Brent Baldwin FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Phone: 512-323-2649
Cell: 512-769-1706
Email: brentdbaldwin@hotmail.com

THE NORMANS CD-RELEASE PARTY AT CHEAPO DISCS, JUNE 1ST, 2007
Special guests Jane Bond and Andy MacIntyre join.

Austin, TX – June 1st, 2007 - The Normans, following the success of their debut album Dreams of Autocrashes, will release their new CD, Stereo Savant at a live in-store show at Cheapo Discs (914 N. Lamar) on Friday, June 1st at 7pm. They will be joined by special musical guests Jane Bond (6pm) and Andy MacIntyre (5pm).

Stereo Savant, produced and engineered by Erik Wofford (The Octopus Project, Okkervil River, My Morning Jacket), puts forth a dynamic blend of garage noise, atmospheric pedal steel guitar, and pop harmonies, interwoven with the string textures of the Tosca String Quartet (David Byrne, Sufjan Stevens).

The Normans were formed in 2003 by guitarist Corey Butler (God Drives a Galaxy) and Brent Baldwin (best known around town as the conductor of Golden Hornet project symphonies and Stephen Barber's Barbwire Music Project). The tunes are poppy, but The Normans are not a simple three-chord-and-chorus rock band. Baldwin and Butler orchestrate intricate layers of sound and space. Bassist Byrne Rock and drummer Nina Singh lay down a rhythmic pulse in the tradition of T-Rex. The resulting blend of textures has earned The Normans favorable comparisons to Yo La Tengo, Frank Black, Elliott Smith, and the Kinks.

Stereo Savant, a self-released EP, will be available at the June 1st show at Cheapo. It will also be available at Waterloo Records, End of an Ear and on-line at http://cdbaby.com/cd/normans2.


For more information or to schedule an interview or photo sessions with The Normans, contact Brent Baldwin at 512-323-2649 or brentdbaldwin@hotmail.com.


For more information about the Normans, see http://www.myspace.com/thenomans or http://www.normansworld.net.

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