Troubadour Dali

trou·ba·dour [ˈtro͞obəˌdôr] Noun A composer and performer who writes verse to music. Dali [ˈdɑːlɪ (Spanish) daˈliː] Noun A surrealist pop artist, who created mind-expanding aesthetic marvels. “The quartet finds beauty in chaos. Distortion and cranked-up guitars create monster walls of blissful noise, while droning, starry-eyed vocal harmonies and tornado psych-rock sinkholes add sunburned levity.” – RIVERFRONT TIMES Troubadour Dali releases their second album, Let’s Make It Right on August 8, 2011 through Euclid Records. Formed in 2005 in St. Louis, MO, Troubadour Dali creates lush vocal harmonies paired with hypnotic grooves and jangly fuzz space guitar hooks. Let’s Make It Right shows exciting growth from Troubadour Dali’s 2009 self-titled album which was mixed by producer Bill Racine (Rogue Wave, Mates of State). Singer, Ben Hinn elaborates, “For Let’s Make It Right, we initially planned on recording only a couple of songs for a single release. We ended up tracking an album’s worth of material between Sawhorse Studios, with Jason McEntire, and our home studios. Most of the drums, bass, and guitars were recorded live at Sawhorse, with additional overdubs and vocals tracked there, at our apartments, fallout shelters, and other top-secret locations throughout Saint Louis. After our first record, everyone in the band delved further into recording, which has considerably helped with the song writing process of the band, and allows us to better share what we hear in our heads before going into the studio. The result has been more focused and productive sessions.” Nominated the last three years in a row by the St. Louis Riverfront Times for the best indie band, Troubadour Dali won the award in 2010. Troubadour Dali has shared the stage with Warpaint, A Place to Bury Strangers, Darker My Love, The Entrance Band, Sleepy Sun, The Whigs and the Strange Boys to name a few. The band will play the 2nd annual LouFest in St. Louis Forest Park on Saturday, August 27, 2011 with The Roots, TV on the Radio, Cat Power, Deerhunter, Surfer Blood, The Hold Steady, Sleepy Sun, Ume and more. More tour dates will be announced shortly including Chicago, Minneapolis, Urbana/Champaign, Louisville, Nashville, Kansas City, and Columbia, MO. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.