Description
Label Review.
2017 album from founding member of Pavement.
Our Overview.
Scott Kahnberg aka Spiral, formerly the front-man of Preston School Of Industry, and guitarist, singer and founding member with Pavement, and long-running nom-du-rock, Spiral Stairs says “I guess Spiral Stairs is my name now… Everybody knows me as Spiral, it’s weird when someone calls me ‘Scott’. I’m not sure anyone knows who Scott Kannberg is."
After an eight year break from releasing music, Scott is back we are pleased to announce. The first Spiral Stairs record ‘The Real Feel ‘came in 2009, just as Pavement were announcing a hugely successful burst of reunion shows. After that, Scott and his wife moved to Brisbane, Australia, started a family and he says “life simply got in the way”. Doris and The Daggers showcases the most personal and emotional music Scott has ever written, reflecting the life changes that occurred over those eight years. During that stretch, Scott weathered the loss of friends, treasured the joys of fatherhood, lived life as an Australian and apparently even ate haggis meat, experiences that inform these warm, sweetly melodic and soundly honest songs.
Instead of a week-long blitz, ‘Doris and The Daggers’ was recorded over a more civilised, considered batch of short sessions at Exactamundo studios in Eagle Rock, California. Long-time low-end foil Matt Harris returned on bass duties, while the drum-stool was adopted by Broken Social Scene’s Justin Peroff. The trio cut 30 songs in all, while a number of Scott’s close musical friends stepped in to make some key contributions. Peroff’s Broken Social Scene cohort Kevin Drew sang on ‘Emoshuns’, Kelley Stoltz lent guitar to the summery chime of ‘AWM’, and The National’s Matt Berninger lends vocals to the bittersweet, zephyr-light ‘Exiled Tonight’.