On Thursday September 22nd Slim Cessna’s Auto Club comes back after two years to Lucerna Music Bar. It has been twenty-four years since Slim Cessna parted ways with The Denver Gentlemen, that grand progenitor of the peculiar strain of Gothic Americana unique to the Mile High City, to form Slim Cessna’s Auto Club with a group of talented peers. Many bands with a long and successful run like that would stick close to its roots. But rather than rest on well-earned laurels, the Auto Club challenged itself to break with well worn modes of operating for the new record. In September 2016, Slim Cessna’s Auto Club is releasing its new album The Commandments According to SCAC.
SLIM CESSNA’S AUTO CLUB. Gothic americana, country goth, country-punk, gothabilly, alt-country’n’gospel, but also soundtrack to the book of Cormac McCarthy – this is just one way how to describe the music of this band.
Tickets are available for 390 CZK (+fee) at GoOut.cz , Ticketpro, Ticketportal, musicbar.cz and at the cash desk of the LMB (without fee). At the door: 490 CZK.
Commandment 4, the first single from the new album of SCAC: https://youtu.be/pLVNommhoLc
But no band can be satisfied with treading the same territory that it helped to define forever. The Commandments According to SCAC, will be the first full length album of original material released on the Auto Club’s own imprint, SCACUNINCORPORATED. The title evokes the themes of cosmic punishment and redemption that have served the band’s songwriting engine so well in the past. But this set of songs sounds more hopeful and expansive, a quality that was always there but this time out the brighter sides of the songwriting are emphasized. Hints of this saw early full-flown expression on 2008’s Cipher and Unentitled from 2011. With The Commandments, however, the Auto Club seems to step forward into the promise of its own possibilities. It remains capable of the heady darkness and celebratory intensity with which it made its name. Now that charmingly dusky and spare sound breathes with a color and delicacy of feeling that perhaps sat in the background in times past. Maybe it’s partly due to the greater creative contributions from longtime collaborator Rebecca Vera and The Peeler or the inclusion of upright bass player Ian O’Dougherty. But the core of the band’s songwriting and sound is anchored firmly in the vision of Slim, Munly Munly and Lord Dwight Pentacost.
Whatever the true source of this transformation, The Commandments According to SCAC sounds like a band marshalling its creative inspiration to mark out a new chapter of its existence. When you get to see the Auto Club tour following the album’s release, you’ll get to see an already mighty band reinvigorated by this new spirit as well as by the fire that has long burned in its collective belly.
Come and see for yourself, if you will love the new album as you love the previous albums.
