Bubblegum Records is pleased to announce the release of the fourth Hyperbubble album, Drastic Cinematic. While Hyperbubble's previous album, Candy Apple Daydreams, was a Technicolor cartoon triple -layer wedding cake with 16 tons of frosting and a cherry on top, Drastic Cinematic is exactly the opposite: A stripped down soundtrack of black & white audio noir. This is Hyperbubble's very un-ambient Music For Films. Jess (lead vocals, synthesizers and electronic drums) and Jeff ( synthesizers, sequencers and vocals) dedicated the album to the films of Jean-Luc Godard, and pay musical homage to some of their favorite synth-driven soundtracks by Giorgio Moroder, Issac Hayes, Goblin, Ennio Morricone, Wendy Carlos, Jerry Goldsmith, Queen, Barry de Vorzon, and, of course, Tangerine Dream. To jump start your imagination, each track begins with sound effects and dialogue by voice actors from the groups Crevice (US), S/T (Germany), Echo, and Minimal (France). Hyperbubble have cast themselves in the starring roles: Imagine if Jean Seberg and Jean-Paul Belmondo were the stars of Alphaville. Guests singers include Ireland's Aidan Casserly (known for his work with Empire State Human and Kraftwerk's Wolfgang FlÃ¼r) and Manda Rin, member of the Scottish pop group Bis, and singer of The Powerpuff Girls Theme. The Pure Pop For Now People label's limited edition vinyl-only release featured 10 songs. This Bubblegum Records CD and MP3 Directors Cut adds a remix of 'Geometry' by Haberdashery and two remixes of ' Welcome to Infinity', one by I European, and one by Mark Towns, who previously worked on The Very Best of Erasure. The album's first single ' Welcome to Infinity', was released January, 2011 to unanimously rave reviews, and promised a bold new direction for Hyperbubble. With the release of this new album, Jess and Jeff have made good on that promise, leaving their cartoon world behind, embracing the dark side of the bubble, and forging the future of music, while at the same time celebrating the cinematic past. Welcome to infinity, indeed. REVIEWS OF DRASTIC CINEMATIC: More wonderfully straightforward danceable pop from the Texas-based band Hyperbubble. This band is the duo comprised of Jess Decuir and Jeff Decuir along with various friends and guest artists lending helping hands. Drastic Cinematic is the duo's tribute to some of their favorite soundtracks created by artists like Giorgio Moroder, Goblin, Ennio Morricone, Wendy Carlos, Jerry Goldsmith, Queen, Barry de Vorzon, and Tangerine Dream. The Decuirs have a sound that incorporates lots of vintage analog synthesizers and sounds from early techno/dance bands from the 1980s. Like the band's last album, this disc is a non-stop fun experience from start to finish. Totally cool upbeat modern pop tunes presented with gutsy imagination and plenty of style. Groovy cuts include 'Midnight Cruiser,' 'Geometry,' 'Blame It On The Bot,' and 'Welcome To Infinity Pts 1 & 2.' Totally cool vibes here. TOP PICK. 5/5 Stars. LMNOP * dONW7 - BABY SUE MAGAZINE Husband-wife duo Hyperbubble's latest CD is Drastic Cinematic. If '70s rockers Mountain could record a "Theme from an Imaginary Western," there's no reason San Antonio synth-pop duo Hyperbubble can't record a soundtrack for an imaginary Jean-Luc Goddard film. On "Drastic Cinematic," a 13-song disk dedicated to the French-Swiss filmmaker, Hyperbubble trade in their cartoony, retro-futurist bubblegum pop for a moodier, darker, and...well, cinematic... feel. But don't expect gloomy ambient soundscapes here. This is still a catchy - though largely instrumental - pop record where the band pays homage to the soundtrack works of Giorgio Moroder, Issac Hayes, Wendy Carlos, Queen and Tangerine Dream. The simple melodies and repetitive, catchy choruses also evoke Kraftwerk on several songs... Hyperbubble keeps vocals to a minimum here, preferring to limit them to repetitions of song titles during choruses, as in the Gary Numanesque "Geometry," where Jess (lead vocals, synthesizers and electronic drums) trades off with Jeff (synthesizers, sequencers and vocals), his voice robotically altered by a Vocoder. Elsewhere, as in "Quiet on the Set" and the title track, breathy sighs, whispers and laughter weave in and out of the mix like instrumental tracks. The duo also drops bits of spoken dialogue into song intros, several provided by francophone collaborators (remember the Goddard thing?). At the opening of the second tune, "Midnight Cruiser," a man and woman speak over the sound of pouring rain. "Do you have it?" he asks, to which she replies, "Shhh. Get in the car." It's a perfect reminder that the ensuing music is meant to accompany something fascinating and mysterious onscreen - perhaps a sequel to Goddard's science fiction-meets-film noir "Alphaville." Things get their most soundtracky on "Infinity, Pts. 1 and 2," where the track's bubbly first half welcomes the listener to infinity amid analog bleeps, bloops and ascending scales. The longer second half moves through a dark, dirgy introduction before a fanfare of French horns drop in and it concludes with a burbling Tangerine Dream-ish sythensizer figure and a voiceover (in French, of course). Hyperbubble has already proven it can churn out bouncy, lyrically clever synth-pop with the best. So it's a kick to see the duo further expand it's sonic palette while keeping the same cheeky retro sensibilities that made their earlier disks so refreshing. "Drastic Cinematic" is a welcome addition to Hyperbubble's already solid catalogue - and a worthy tribute to the filmmaker who inspired it. Sanford Allen - MISSIONS UNKNOWN Dedicated to the films of Jean Luc-Goddard, HYPERBUBBLE have forsaken their cartoon bubblepunk as exemplified by their last album Candy Apple Daydreams, and recruited a number of willing collaborators including Aidan Cassidy of EMPIRE STATE HUMAN and Manda Rin from BIS with her cat Akiko for a journey into the darker side of the Moog. Saying that though, this isn't witch house or industrial goth; Drastic Cinematic is still very much HYPERBUBBLE. With no conventional lead vocals as such, Jess and Jeff Decuir have paid homage to the electronically derived soundtracks of GIORGIO MORODER, WENDY CARLOS, ENNIO MORRICONE, JERRY GOLDSMITH and TANGERINE DREAM to accompany their own widescreen filmic adaptation of The Avengers; Jess as electro's answer to Emma Peel and Jeff playing John Steed as an eccentric synthmeister. The album does what is says on the tin and is a largely instrumental based celebration of monochromatic audio noir using synths, snippets of dialogue and the odd French horn. Starting moodily with the Middle-Eastern textured Vox Noir, the ambience is disrupted by the pulsing spy drama of Midnight Cruiser. The title track features drones of different timbres to a seemingly random beat before the ambient interlude Rue Des Dames. Geometry is perhaps what one would expect as more typical of HYPERBUBBLE's sound, very pop with Manda Rin paraphrasing a singular "Geometry" as a vocal point. Blame It On The Bot is characteristically retro-futuristic Sci-Fi before the more JOHN CARPENTER influenced Explosive which could easily be a collaboration with ORBITAL. As Quiet On The Set creepily stutters and claps, the Part 1 album take of Welcome to Infinity is Vince Clarke-styled sequenced magic which then breaks down into Part 2, bookending the esoteric section of Drastic Cinematic with some more textured ambience. After the abstract first half hour, the three bonus tracks are more conventionally synthpop with remixes by I EUROPEAN, HABERDASHERY and MARKYMIX. As with HYBERBUBBLE's other albums, the collection is short but sweet. However, this departure explores other synthetic depths and can be enjoyed at all levels. - ChiMing Lai - THE ELECTRICITY CLUB Unlike their last album, which was techno- colorful and infiltrated by cartoons and playfulness, Jess (lead vocals, synthesizers and electronic drums) and Jeff (Synthesizers, sequen

Tracklist:

Vox Noir
Night Cruiser
Drastic Cinematic (Feat. Beatrice Rougier & Aidan Casserly)
Rue Des Dames (Feat. Gavin Decuir)
Geometry (Feat. Manda Rin & Akiko)
Blame It On The Bot (Feat. Bryan Stanchak)
Explosive
Quiet On The Set (Feat. Joachim Gaertner)
Welcome To Infinity Part 1
Welcome To Infinity Part 2 (Feat. Joli Stokes & Armand Rougier)
Welcome To Infinity (Remix By I European) (Feat. Armand Rougier)
Geometry (Remix By Haberdashery) (Feat. Manda Rin)
Welcome To Infinity (Markymix)

UPC: 884501524896
Label: Cd Baby
Release Date: 6.30.11
Format: CD

Hyperbubble - Drastic Cinematic (CD)