Many thanks to Hannah Levin and the folks over at Audioasis for playing our song, Curvature, on KEXP over the weekend! You can find the playlist here. We’re glad we got a chance to hear ourselves on the radio, and hope to do so again soon!

Big thanks also to Andrew from The Keeper for pressing it into the capable hands that played it. That’s what community is all about. On a related note, you should totally go over to The Keeper’s site and listen to “Tonight We Ride”. Tell my horse I love her.

“Recorded over three weekends in the winter of 2008-09, In the Belly of the Sea Devil is an epic and moving debut for the the folks in Manos De Plata. When the band was offered the chance to record aboard a decommissioned naval tugboat known as the Sea Devil, they knew the experience – as well as the end product – would be special. All primary live recording sessions and guest musicians were recorded in the engine room of the Sea Devil – 8 feet below the surface of Seattle’s Lake Union. The resulting tracks have a mood and sound consistent with the environment in which they were captured: here small and isolated, tucked beneath the waves, there ascending from below like a leviathan.”

That’s what the press release says. What it really comes down to is that everyone involved, from from the lowliest deckhand to the Captain himself, took away many great experiences from the recording of this EP. All of the artwork was executed by our good (and terribly talented) friend Justin Lytle, and he’s done an amazing job! Just check out the cover above… it’s perfect! At least we think so.

We’ve already promised the good Captain (and he’s promised us in return) that our future recordings will happen aboard the Sea Devil, but in the meantime we’ve got an EP that we’re extremely proud of and shows to play in support of it.
The CDs have been pressed and will be available online and in stores soon, but for the next few days the only place you’ll be able to pick one up is at a show!… starting tonight at the Sunset Tavern!