If you like Saul Williams’ brand of poetry, hip-hop, rock and electro, then watch for Power Douglas. The Brooklyn-based trio is prepping its debut album, Pentecostal Fangbread, for King Britt’s FiveSixMedia, and is scheduled to arrive on April 15. Guests on the album will include Tunde Adebimpe from TV on the Radio and various members of Dragons of Zynth.
Power Douglas is one of the prime artists on FiveSixMedia, which plans to make major moves this year. Others on its roster include Ursula Rucker and Chuck Treece. “I’ve been so impressed with Power Douglas [frontman] Furor Thin, Chuck and Urs for so long,” says King Britt in a press release. “To be able to help them get their music out there gives me tremendous satisfaction.”
The cryptic bio on the band’s MySpace page reads: “As Power Douglas we enjoy wilderness concubines, balloons, vengeance, and toffee. The Pentecostal Fangbread EP is a paranormal judicial conduit into Man’s condition. Pyro-kinesis is our wandering theme, functioning as a cradle of humanism among this industrial griffin scourge. We will pilfer minotaurs, ghosts, and czars of their fonts…knowing that the dance floor is in warfare with cro-magnon ovals dressed like a Senate. Tim is outlawed in the minds of their expedient daughters. And tender woofers wept, for now chivalry has new friends. So encouraged are we to see Jess in his silent tantrum that banishes impatient killing fields. Power Douglas has a solitaire architecture in the dominion of Brooklyn to thwart charlatan tragedy. Theatre holds memory then harvests invincible love criminals to serenade Power Douglas into a new emotion. Jess and Tim nurture vigilante sound while Furor Thin whispers pyre text. Power Douglas is the temperature of all that is unseen.”
Photo by Eric Martin.
