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"To Give You The Stars Above" hails from LAE's debut LP, Break The Clasp, out now on The Compound Recs and Battleground Records. Video created by David Hall / Handshake Inc. (handshakeinc.com/) A monumentally dejected yet inspiring nearly hour-long psychedelic journey through thirteen dynamic movements, LAE’s Break The Clasp saw its initial digital and CD release at the end of November as a collaborative effort between The Compound Recs, Battleground Records and LAE themselves. Recorded in full analog in main songwriter Marc Lucas Ablasou’s woodshop in Montreal by Steve Austin of Today Is The Day and Austin Enterprises, who provided lead vocals to the entire album, the lineup is completed by Ronald Jean-Gilles, Serge Nakauchi Pelletier, Stephane Desgroseilliers. Re-envisioning their original anthems -- penned under initial moniker LAE-TSEU in the mid-late 1990s -- alongside new songs, the band recorded live on vintage 1970s equipment utilizing a range of guitars, basses, drums, accordion, trumpet, saws, organs, pianos, electronics and a multitude of vocal styles into a four-part storyline of life, love, hope and death. Following several overdub sessions at Austin Enterprises where the songs were mixed and mastered, the album was shrouded by otherworldly artwork by Sonny Kay (The VSS, Angel Hair, Gold Standard Laboratories label), completing this transcendentally gloomy yet beautifully delivered opus. Co-released between The Compound Recs and Battleground Records on CD and digital platforms late last year, LAE’s Break The Clasp is now available in a deluxe vinyl version. The beautiful package showcases the otherworldly cover art by Sonny Kay (The VSS, Angel Hair, Gold Standard Laboratories label, etc.) and sees the album pressed on two slabs of 180-gram black vinyl with poly-lined inner sleeves, a full-color gatefold cardboard outer sleeve with front and back cover spot varnish including a free digital download. Order Break The Clasp via The Compound Recs here: http://www.thecompound.bandcamp.com/album/break-the-clasp And order via Battleground here: http://www.battlegroundrecords.bigcartel.com http://www.laetseu.com http://www.facebook.com/pages/LAE-Band/614579391922975 http://www.laemusic.bandcamp.com http://www.thecompoundrecs.com http://www.thecompound.bandcamp.com http://www.facebook.com/thecompoundrecs http://www.earsplitdistro.com http://www.battlegroundrnr.com http://www.facebook.com/battlegroundrecords