Conveyor Produces Prime Double Album With THX1138 Connection

Brooklyn’s Conveyor Release Double LP Prime, Out Today on Gold Robot Records—An Original Score for George Lucas’ 1971 Sci-Fi Classic THX 1138

Stream Conveyor’s Prime in its entirety at Music and Riots Magazine: http://musicandriotsmagazine.com/?p=11287

“Conveyor’s debut album wove digital sounds with earthy vocal harmonies and vitalistic rhythms in a way that echoes technology’s ability to amplify the human experience. On Prime, digital textures either drone ominously or assault the ears, while live instrumentation rebels against it.” Impose

“Conveyor paints Lucas’ dismal dystopia with astonishing accuracy, featuring robotic noises, dissonant harmonies, and jolting sound effects, but cooks with the same ingredients throughout: pulsating, mechanical noises, funeral-like organs, buzzing bass lines, and slow, grounded drum beats.” Pop’stache

“The LP is an extreme left turn for Brooklyn four piece Conveyor, whose previous releases are fuzzed out, pastoral rock and roll. “Theme I” begins tightly coiled, translating the neurotic, noisy environment of Lucas’s future Earth into seismographic waves.” Tiny Mix Tapes

““Theme XIII (Edit)” is a frenzied krautrock surge that just keeps getting more and more extraordinarily vivid. As awesome as it would have been to witness this spectacle in person, the music is thrilling in its own right. Listen to it.” – Stereogum

“The cover channels the quaint simplicity of Holly’s original number, keeping to clean guitars and light drumming. The harmonies and humming on the chorus give the song a comforting, Sunday morning feeling.” Consequence of Sound (on Words of Love)

About Conveyor:

Conveyor is a band. Currently based in New York, NY, the band is composed of electric guitars, bass guitar, drums, voice, and the four members that manipulate these instruments in order to perform the songs. The body that comprises their work currently includes: a string of self-released EPs, a cassette, one full-length album, and a number of 7” singles. The music is best described as melodic, harmonic, rhythmic, predominantly major-key, and adequately fits under the categories of rock and pop, with additional associations, more or less strong, to related sub-genres.

The songs on Prime were composed and performed alongside two midnight screenings of George Lucas’ THX 1138 (1971) in December 2013 at Nitehawk Cinema in Brooklyn, NY. The bulk of the recordings were subsequently captured live on the 3rd of January 2014 at the Silent Barn in Brooklyn, NY.

Other elements of the two December performances such as lighting effects, costumes, and set design are not represented here, and so this record should not be taken as a permutation of either of those two events but as a discrete object in and of itself. Prime comes at an odd time in the lives of those who have participated in its construction and occupies a borderline frustrating amount of space, and yet as a concept it remains inviolable and pure, denoting a way forward which we have no choice but to pursue.