Man at Arms is a noisy rock band from the Midwest. Its members are Eric and Ted who, respectively, play guitar and drums. Both of them sing. The guitars are biting, the drumming is precise and brutal, the commentary, frustrated and scathing. Starting in Grand Rapids, Mich., in the spring of 2002 as a three-piece, the band has been playing shows around its native state and the Midwest. In January of 2005, Man at Arms parted ways with founding member and bassist, Jason, and continued to play shows and write and record songs as a two-piece. The resulting product is the band's most recent release, the Being and Commerce E.P., a collection of sharp, concise songs about things its members have read in books, listened to on the radio, and overheard in conversations. Its distorted, yet dynamic music is quirky without being weird and catchy without conventional pop hooks, drawing comparisons to the Minutemen, Shellac, Fugazi and McLusky.


$10.00 Add To Cart MAN AT ARMS/ABNER TRIO
Split CD
(fric-035/JNR013)
Track List:
ABNER TRIO
1. The Spotlight MP3
2. The Reckoning
3. The Hysteria
4. The Victim
MAN AT ARMS
5. Who Died and Made You the Voice of Reason? MP3
6. Making Conversation
7. The Drooling
8. White Hot Nuclear Winter


Man At Arms - The Foreseeable Future - EP$5.94 		MAN AT ARMS
The Foreseeable Future
iTunes only ep
(fric-033)
2 new songs and 4 live tracks. A blistering exercise in discipline for people with no patience; a monotonous thumping forward into the beginning of the end. Hear the band at their most repetitive, seething and mundane. Hear the two play songs they recorded as three. This is revisionist history in the making.
1. The Forseeable Future Download Video (85 MB)
2. No Use
3. Munitions (Live)
4. Incredible Prices (Live)
5. Unmask That Lone Ranger (Live)
6. Courtesy Call (Live)


$17.00 Add To Cart 		ARI ARI & MAN AT ARMS
Split Lathe Cut 12 inch record
First print of 50
(fric-027)
12 inch split between ARI ARI and MAN AT ARMS containing their existing eps "there's a new sheriff in town" and "being and commerce". The first pressing is of 50 clear lathe cut records made by Peter King Records in New Zealand with all new art work by Jill and screenprinted by Me, JVB.
Released on April 15, 2006 at Robotfest.

CD $7.00

Man At Arms $5.94

MAN AT ARMS - Being And Commerce (fric-023)
1. Courtesy Call: mp3
an invitation to trivial consumption habits
2. Super Imposition:
an attempt to critique linguistic syntax structures in relation to context
3. Incredible Prices:
an inquiry into the seductive power of competitive marketing and its properties of distraction
4. Horrible Professions:
a modern blues on the plight of the contemporary worker and her/his lack of options
5. Xmas Badger:
a critical interpretation of the extended metaphor's short-comings in comparative analysis
6. The Shaming:
an exploration in selfhood with an illustrative anecdote demonstrating a problem of self-awareness

Man At Arms: Ted & Eric
$8.00 Add to Cart CORCOVADO, MAN AT ARMS, SPIT FOR ATHENA & THE SEA THE SEA The Lake Effect: A Four Way Split CD (fric-017)
Track List:
CORCOVADO
1. Chemistry Of Spiders
2. Biology Of Bees mp3
3. Plane Geometry
4. Anatomy - Fear Her Minor Smile
MAN AT ARMS
5. Munitions mp3
6. Unmask That Lone Ranger
7. Feasibility Study
8. Vomit Their Gall.
SPIT FOR ATHENA
9. Butterflies
10. Next Big Thing mp3
11. I'm Not Going Anywhere
12. Flogging The Dolphin (Madeline Usher Version)
THE SEA THE SEA
13. dream out loud
14. creeping crawling towards...
15. walk alone

Old Man At Arms: Ted, Eric & Jason


PRESS:
This bludgeoning raw amalgam of noise, rock and noise rock is made by only two mortal men. I heard Courtesy call on a free comp and lost my mind. I was immediately reminded of Destro1, Grand Island, Giddy Motors, Astoveboat, and Shotmaker and other strong bands in the genre. But uniquely Man At arms is only two guys. Well two very angry guys who appear to be very depressed and also secret geniuses of the lost dystopian lyrical form. Allow me to quote: "Here is a mint for you pillow, Here is a cake for your urinal, a blanket for your burial. This is a courtesy call for nothing at all" There is not a millisecond of melody on this record. Each digital bit on the CD includes only feedback, pounding rhythm and the bitterest wailing of suffering. I've met producers who spend their lives in the studio trying to clean up each guitar note, moving baffles, microphones, changing cables, and the like. These guys are pros trying to take that click of a guitar pick on the string out of the note and leave only perfect tone and sustain. Man At Arms is trying to remove the note and leave only the atonal texture, impact and vicious intention of the string behind to stalk and eventually kill you while you are asleep and defenseless. I have a great respect for that. Fuck you America. This is what you should be listening to.
By JOSE FRITZ from strandedinstereo.com

Photos

Casey Spring took some great photos at Kraftbrau in Kzoo - 6.24.05

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