MINUS STORY

No Rest For Ghosts

If we could hear the angels singing about us, they would be in harmony with the chosen sons of Boonville, Missouri. With No Rest
for Ghosts, their second full-length record for Jagjaguwar, Minus Story have arrived. Their heavenly racket shuffles, flutters, crashes
and bangs all about us. Their reedy artistic voice nears multi-octave range. Their rhythmic presence delights us in a sublime colli-
sion of the conventional and the experimental. And while their trademarked “Wall of Crap” sound is still present to some degree,
No Rest for Ghosts has transcended the earnest collage aesethic of sounds battling it out for attention and now fully exhibits a
depth and subtlety of performance not found on their critical darling The Captain Is Dead, Let the Drum Corpse Dance (their first
full-length for Jagjaguwar, released in 2004).

No Rest for Ghosts is a portal to a richly imaginative Minus Story universe, where the band sings about a narrator being eaten and
regurgitated by his/her own baby in order to feed its own monstrous young, the chasing of a cloud that eats souls, the jumping off
of a cliff like lemmings after employers are laid waste to, the dreaming of a Nazi invasion of their hometown, God sadistically
laughing at them, and their respective minds being invaded by undead celebrities. The emphasis is on either structure over hooks,
or the willingness to enjoy a story in words unfolding over a set of chords without any unneccessary “window dressing” getting in
the way.

Minus Story is influenced musically by the solo work of John Frusciante, the tenderness of Bjork, the melodic interplay of
Television, and the directness of late period Tom Waits. The band is also conceptually influenced by the brutality of Jerzy
Kosinski's The Painted Bird, the sweeping and ambivalent authoritarianism critique of Jason Lips (the provider of cartoon draw-
ings for the album art, and the creator of the Opera and the Blond Stalin character), and most of all by the idea of the invisible
enemy and the erosion of the soul by unknown outside forces.

The isolation and boredom of small town life has led Minus Story to put the love of art and best friends before career, fashion and
professionalism. The writing and recording process for them is one of festivity and trying to capture inspiring moments in their
mistakes. They will never hit their mark, but, in failing, they arrive transported somewhere else. A driving aesthetic force within
the band is their conviction that they are only different from their musical idols in that they are dependent on shitty jobs to fund
their art. Only the rich and privileged are truly independent. Minus Story feel that they and their peers are bound by a common
lack of funds as “budget artists” playing “budget rock”.

I Was Hit • Knocking on Your Head • Ringing in the Dark • Hold On • Little Wet Head • Waking Up •

Will I Be Fighting? • There is a Light • To the Ones You Haunted • In Our Hands

1. Minus Story have built up a considerable underground following, with their Jagjaguwar debut The Captain Is Dead Let the Drum
Corpse Dance having been praised by much of the underground press intelligentsia.

2. They are touring the USA this summer and fall with Starflyer 59 and Okkervil River, among others.

3. Pre-release web-based ad blitz with streaming audio of the album 2 months prior to the release of the album.

4. For fans of Circulatory System, Flaming Lips, Grandaddy, Radiohead and Built to Spill.

Minus Story “No Rest For Ghosts”

on JAGJAGUWAR, catalog no: JAG085

Release date: October 11, 2005

Format: CD and LP (VINYL NON-RETURNABLE)

CD BOX LOT: 25 units

CD UPC: 656605208527

LP UPC: 656605208510

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