You need a degree in accountancy to be a Rangers fan these days. On Tuesday, the Daily Record broke the story that Rangers’ owner Craig Whyte sold four years’ worth of Rangers season ticket sales to fund his takeover of the Govan club. Later that same day, Whyte released a statement admitting the deal happened [...]
[video by Benjamin Shearn . Rangers' Pan Am Stories is out now on Not Not Fun ]
Nashville based four-piece RANGER are making plans to record their newest material and are looking for a hand over at their 'iloveranger' Kickstarter site. This will directly help to fund the forthcoming EP over the next two months via pre-sales and exclusive offers. Following the excellent track featured a year ago ' Doormats ', and then today's beautiful piece, you just know the band is going to put out a stunning release as the cogs in the machine start to spin faster over the next few months. To help them in their new [...]
Undoubtedly, Rangers suffered at the hands – and wallets – of the English clubs, who set up raiding parties that would have been the envy of any 16th-century border reiver. First to go in 1880 was Scottish international Hugh McIntyre, older brother of Tuck and a member of the Cup Final team of 1879, who quit for Blackburn Rovers after they bought him a pub in the town. He went on to win three FA Cup-winners’ medals in successive seasons with his new side in 1884, 1885 and 1886. He was followed to the Lancashire club by founding father Peter [...]
There's a distinct sense of nostalgia permeating Rangers ' new disc for Not Not Fun, Pan Am Stories . The title evokes the jet-setting glamor of the '60s and '70s, or maybe the sense of escape through the clouds, and the psych-inflected, lo-fi bedroom pop works in the same vein of Ducktails and Dirty Beaches. There's something almost disco-tinged about what Joe Knight brings to the table as Rangers, a sound that fits the bucolic memory-leaning of the title. There's a strong sense of story-telling, "Zombies (Day)" warbling and crackling in its [...]
un estratto da Pan Am Stories, il nuovo disco di Rangers uscito per Not Not Fun .
We still haven't fully grasped the whole gloriousness of Joe Knight aka Rangers ' magnificent LP Pan Am Stories , without any doubt one of our favorites of 2011 , but this guy is simply not willing to give us a break: Already working on no less than two new tapes that are scheduled for early next year via his and his pals' still pretty new imprint Brunch Groupe , he's additionally commenced to remix all (!) of his previous stuff, including the tunes off his stellar proper debut LP Suburban Tours , released last [...]
I almost killed the site. When I decided to take a week break from posting I didn't expect for such a long dark void to follow. I had become bored with posting mp3s on the site, I wanted to do something new but couldn't figure out what that would be. After a couple harsh words from blog contributor Jen Graciano, I soon realized how stupid it would have been to shut the site down. A few weeks later we had figured what direction we wanted to take the site and began the planning stages soon after. As [...]
Rangers - Zombies (Night) (by Thal ) One of the best albums I’ve listened this month, the sophomore by American chillwave one man show Rangers’ Pan Am Stories on Not Not Fun is a must listen. “It’s honestly surprising that a character as humble as Knight has assumed such lofty ambitions; just a year ago, he was taking listeners on intimate, night-time detours through American suburbia in the backseat of a hot-boxed car. With all of the acclaim his debut LP Suburban Tours received in the blogosphere as a set of abbreviated [...]
Rangers owner Craig Whyte banned the BBC from Ibrox because he said a documentary they produced was “muckracking”. He should have banned them because it was just a pile of s**t. “Rangers: The Inside Story” was sensationalist and shoddy, a tangled mess of half facts and guilt-by-association. And it didn’t answer the most important question: [...]
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Though it wasn't his first release, last year's Suburban Tours was certainly Joe Knight's breakthrough. Over the course of that album's eleven tracks, Knight managed to refashion the free-form, guitar-driven psychedelia of his earliest cassettes in a more accessible pop context; the result was a lo-fi work with deeper aspirations that sought to encapsulate the cozy ennui of contemporary suburbia. His latest release is just as broad in scope as you'd imagine from a double-LP called Pan Am Stories . Rangers is no longer concerned with the banal familiarity of home; no, he wants to [...]
When Joe Knight's one-man-band project Rangers first came on to the scene with 2009's Low Cut Fades cassette, I was pretty sure something was wrong with the .zip I downloaded. The tracks sounded warped in from another dimension, like the funkiest 1980s supermarket soundtrack I ever heard dubbed from a melting tape deck. When I realized that what I was hearing was intentional, I was of course hooked. As the year went on, I realized that Rangers' hypnagogic aesthetic was fitting right in line with the budding chillwave movement, but there was something different at the [...]
Whatever you might think about the concept of "hypnagogic pop" roughly two years after its incarnation , and whoever you might want to include, provided you consider the term useful or apt in any way, Joe Knight aka Rangers (who most would count as having a top spot in the h-pop pantheon) certainly put the original idea of translating faintly remembered, glossy 80s pop sounds perceived in a state of half-consciousness into a perfect stream of slightly melancholic haziness on a whole new level. And however you put it, last year's Suburban Tours [...]
Das gibt's nicht allzu oft: Gleich zwei vielversprechende Doppelalben erscheinen diese Woche. Da wäre zum Einen das neue Werk von Joe Knights Rangers , auf dessen letztjährigem Debütalbum Suburban Tours sich trotz seiner scheinbaren Einfachheit immer wieder eine denkwürdige Winzmelodie aus dem blubbrigen Psychrock-Nebel herausschlich. Wobei das auf Not Not Fun erschienene Pan Am Stories längenmäßig ebenso nur ein LP-Doppelalbum ist wie die neue M83 , doch auch wenn Anthony Gonzalez' sechstes Album auf eine einzige CD passen würde - dem Panoramasound und der 2-Hälften-Struktur würde dies wohl nicht so gerecht [...]
Looks like a couple blogs are getting excited about a new double album called Pan Am Stories that San Francisco band Rangers are going to release soon on celebrated LA label Not Not Fun . The word of the day with these guys is apparently "hypnagogic", but basically I think it just sounds like a more-spacey, less-702s Unknown Mortal Orchestra kind of shtick. It's cool though. (via Altered Zones ) Rangers - Conversations On The Jet Stream
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A band that surprised the hell out of everyone a few years ago, Rangers , is back with a new song. A quick listen on the headphones and you'll realize this track is a slimy, viscous mess for your eardrums. Seamless but ambient, the title says it all; this song pays homage to the weightless Xanax daze and concocted flight attendant friendliness. Double LP Pan Am Stories will be out on Not Not Fun Rangers - Conversations on a Jet Stream
MP3: Rangers - Conversations On The Jetstream Oh man, new Rangers . "Conversations" really steps up that (as Simon Reynolds perfectly put it) "exquisite filigreed playing submerged within the fog of reverb and FX" with the ultra-rich and tree-lined chorus, and even if it does seem more 70s executive air travel-oriented, it's just in time for Spring/Summer drives down here. Pan Am Stories is out soon on Not Not Fun on double LP. ( via. AZ / Fader ) [...]
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Living in China, I’m used to reading stories of police wading into crowds to pull down banners deemed offensive to the authorities, and dragging away the ‘troublemakers’ who unfurl these slogans. Still, the most recent article I read about this was surprising. It was the Scotsman’s report on the Rangers-Kilmarnock game on Tuesday night. During [...]
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