White Box released "Harsh, Final." by Danny Saul on the 26th of October 2009, and are very pleased to have done so. Finally...after submitting the album to various 'name' labels as a potential release, and getting very positive responses, but no available release dates in any label's schedule until some time in a distant future, we thought 'fuck it, we'll do it ourselves', if only to give Danny the chance to seriously commit to its followup. So here it is.
Danny has been logging reviews on his own blog, so rather than paraphrase his own paraphrasis (some non-English language blog reviews have been enriched by Google's translational nuances, as always a ripe source for random track titles), go here and here.
Other people (who have since become friends, of both Danny and White Box) have said very nice things about the album, and rather than keep these comments to ourselves and feel smug, we've used them in a cynical way to assist sales through 'celebrity endorsement':
“I´ve been listening to it constantly since I got it, brilliant in every aspect...it's been a long time since I heard something this beautiful. It feels so complete as an album” (enthuses Dag Rosenqvist AKA Jasper TX)
“Really really beautiful … dark and moving” (says Rutger Zuyderfeld AKA Machinefabriek)
and
“Yesterday I was standing in the rain waiting for the bus, listening to that first song in my headphones, and I just lost it. My eyes completely filled with water, and my body just froze. Then later on in the evening I was on my way home on the bus, listening to the album again, and I missed my bus stop...it is deeply affecting music…I remember that day… It was intense and amazing” (says Peter Broderick AKA Peter Broderick)
Genuine and unsolicited comments, merciless exploited by us. They will never speak highly of us again.
Danny plays at the Nexus Cafe in Manchester on Friday the 6th of November, with Grouper, the forementioned Jasper TX and Fieldhead
