First 100 pre-orders (regardless of format) will receive the following: 11 x 17 poster, and 4x button set.
First 10 LP pre-order customers will also receive a limited edition “I Live Here Now” 12”.
On Visits, Tammar pulls off a pretty incredible trick with each and every one of its post-punk anthems, probably something of which the band doesn’t take much note. They mine the classic sounds of paranoia, malaise and misanthropy (Joy Division, The Velvet Underground, The Fall and early 90s alt-rock), and fill it all with so much exuberance and joy of playing that each song becomes a triumph over anxiety and ennui. Visits finds each of the band’s five members stepping outside of themselves, but not in an snake-poison-ingesting, flopping-on-the-floor sense. It’s something else, something full of wonder. It’s witnessing a dear friend suddenly unveil an incredible hidden talent, as if that talent is levitation or some shit. These songs burst and evolve like water capsule toys. Warm beds of wobbly and fat-bodied krautpop prove to be overwhelming, atmospheric art-rock tours de force. You are left pie-eyed and windblown by the whole glorious affair. It’s the B-side of Neu! as pep rally music. It’s the kind of thing that would have flipped Old Man Peel’s wig in another place and time.
The band is offering Visits track “The Last Line” for download. Pitchfork premiered the track, and had this to say, “The Last Line is a hypnotic, chest-beating first listen from Visits, the debut LP from Indiana psych-rockers Tammar, due September 20 on Suicide Squeeze” (see Pitchfork June 20).
Pre-Orders ship on September 12, 2011.
