Artist.....[ Company
Album......[ Parallel Time
Label......[ Jagjaguwar/Brah Records
Catalog #..[ JAGBR002

Genre......[ Indie
Language...[ English
Rip Date...[ 2005-10-11
Store Date.[ 2005-10-11
Rip Tool...[ EAC
Encoder....[ LAME 3.90.3 --alt-preset standard
Quality....[ 179kbps AVG VBR 44.1/Joint Stereo
Url........[ http://www.abandcalledcompany.com

01 Red Army Blues                            2:45
02 Dragon Is The Mother Tongue               5:12
03 Emeralds                                  3:21
04 Deliver Me                                3:26
05 Shenandoah Morning Lullaby                3:08
06 Parallel Time                             3:27
07 In The Jaws Of The Lion                   4:23
08 The Widow's Man                           4:00
09 The Wooden Hall                           2:56
10 I've Been A Child                         4:20
11 Pigeon Man                                2:40
12 The Darkest Blues                         2:34
13 Genesis                                   5:16

47:28

The Brooklyn-based band Company evolved out of a
miasma of folk, punk, and psychedelic elements in
2001, when its denizens haunted the legendary
East Village bar Nine-C in an ongoing residency.
Here Company made sounds removed from the
contemporary musical main street that defied pat
categorization. "Folk rock is the label closest
to Company's sound, but their rock references are
more Clash, Joy Division, and Meat Puppets than
'60s California," Pat Sullivan wrote in Index
magazine, attempting to sum it up. He added,
"Company derive their musical muscle from the
folk side of the formula. The best folk singers
have the power to rivet a room's attention on the
cadences of a vocal inflection or the change of a
single chord, and each member of Company has this
power in spades." With a seemingly conventional
four-piece guitar rock lineup, Company can be
found wandering and improvising through
traditional and innovative musical styles, but
they are always grounded and unified by the
songwriter's original vision. Company's
membersùAdam Davison, David Janik, Christopher
Teret and Stephanie Rabinsùused these open-ended
Nine-C shows like a workshop to develop rough
sketches into masterful songs, playing to the
audience's mood as well as to their requests.
Following the tragic closing of Nine-C in 2003,
Company found another small stage to take on a
weekly basis at Pete's Candy Store in
Williamsburg. These pint-sized settings inform
their sound, which is as intimate and homey as it
is profound and even ominous at times. The
results are songs that fill the room like
intoxicated party conversationùloud and soft,
wildly silly then suddenly private and sincere.
In TimeOut New York, Sara Marcus lauded, "the
band's phenomenal weekly concerts in that cozy
back room showed a group of musicians who are
deeply at ease with their sound. . . . impressive
performances from a generous, chilled-out band."
Staying true to the spirit of the band's name,
Company's live shows are all about a community of
friends and fans having a good old time together.

Translating the experience to the album format
has been a somewhat harrowing task. Parallel Time
has been a long time coming. It is the fourth
full-length recording by the prolific group, but
the first available in wide release. Company
found an ideal setting to immortalize its craft
at Paul Oldham's Rove Studio in rural
Shelbyville, Kentucky. Rove doubles as Paul's
home and the relaxed efforts of the band are a
testament to that; the hospitality the group
enjoyed in the company of Paul, his wife Christa,
and their magical dogs is evident in every stroke
of this swimmingly painted portrait of the great
big what-the-fuck. With Paul's superb technical
and artistic collaboration, Company spent a week
molding the record between innings of Wiffle«
ball and rigorously executed communal meals. The
results speak for themselves: Parallel Time is a
mosaic of musical and lyrical ideas that
represent the culmination of a long relationship.
David drives the quartet through the varied
back-roads of the band's collective sub-conscious
with his enigmatic and compelling rhythms as
Stephanie, Christopher, and Adam alternate as
wordsmiths and singers. From the mystical
landscapes of youth found in "Dragon is the
Mother Tongue" and "Emeralds" through the latent
emotional storms brewing in "The Wooden Hall" and
then exploding in "I've Been a Child" with the
revealed secrets and whispered pleas of "The
Widow's Man" and "Deliver Me" heard along the
way, listeners find themselves in places strange
and beautiful. As dark as it may get, they know
they are in good hands.

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