STandART – Autumn News
Release date: November 6, 2009
Released by STandART / Zemgales Impērija (ZRXCD001)
Produced by Kaspars Tobis & STandART

Tracklist:

01 The Field Where I Died
02 Animals of Our Kind
03 Pioneers
04 Ausmas Dziesma
05 61
06 Season People
07 I’m the Voices
08 June
09 Hydrology
10 Autumn News
11 Lapsu Nakts

Interview with STandART on TVNET.LV (in Latvian only)

Interview with STandART on Rada7.ee (in Estonian only)

“The album is closed by one of the best lullabies I have ever heard.”
Dace Volfa
“Mūzikas Saule” magazine, Latvia

“Finally this Latvian electronic workshop has found such a balance between emotional British electroclash and motoric German dark wave synth pop, which brings the originality to the front and is pleasant for listening. The best thing is that the result cannot be classified as any of the both styles, because it sublimates in a new quality.”
Jānis Stundiņš
“Mūzikas Saule” magazine, Latvia

“When back in 2002 the band introduced itself with a very strange video and an unusual sound, there were only 2 chances left: either this was just another try to patch up the holes of the Latvian music gobelin – that is usually not a long-term process – or these fashionably dressed young men will become respectable members of the marginal, yet very necessary underground music environment. With their second album, STandART proves the second variant raising a black velvet curtain that reveals a melancholic, silently powerful cabaret of emotions.”
Toms Treibergs
“Mūzikas Saule” magazine, Latvia

“(..) first looks can be deceiving, they don’t reveal enough to form a qualified opinion and in case of STandART’s new album it would have been a shame. The arrangements are well worked out in their vintage clothing, detailed enough to not get bored by it after a short time already, and with a voice like that on top they should be able to break out of their niche existence soon and getting to play themselves into the hearts of a much bigger audience.”
Sebastian Huhn
Music webzine “Reflections of Darkness”, Germany

“The album actually dismisses the latest misconceptions that classify Eastern Europe within a marginal creativity. The proof is here: STandART are back!”
Massimo Colombo
Music webzine “D-side”, Italy