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Chicago's The Poison Arrows return with their third EP, and the second EP
as a full band comprised of bassist Patrick Morris, Adam Reach, and Justin
Sinkovich. After Sinkovich released a solo EP entitled Trailer Park as The
Poison Arrows in 2004 on File Thirteen; He, Reach, and Morris began
playing together. Songs were assembled in their studio The Plaza as the
band formed. A first release was constructed by the three musicians
working with prewritten material, individually layering on top of each
other's work, then extensive editing and manipulating the sounds, all
of which comprised March 2007's File Thirteen EP Straight Into The Drift.

While completing the overdubbing, editing, and mixing of the Straight
Into The Drift EP, The Poison Arrows began to write songs together as
a band. One of the key principles of the band's playing together was
(and still is) to appreciate the moment, and not over analyze a band-
mate's compositions, or the band's assemblage of arrangements.
After a year had passed, over an album's worth of music materialized.

The Poison Arrows went into Steve Albini's Electrical Audio Studio A with
staff engineer and long-time friend Greg Norman to record the basic tracks
for about a dozen songs. After completing the basic tracks at Electrical, all
of the overdubs were recorded at The Plaza. As they continue to finish
mixes of the awaited debut full-length album, the Casual Wave EP was
completed. This four-song EP shows a substantial evolution of The Poison
Arrows into a band. All of the main tracks from the EP are played together
with no editing. The sounds from Electrical Audio are embraced instead
of drastically manipulated like the previous EP, while overdubs follow
arrangements that were previously decided upon by live arrangements.
The skeleton of the first and title track "Casual Wave" was initially written
as the opening movement of a live film score for Year, a film by avant
garde filmmaker Michael Betancourt. Betancourt has taken this final
incarnation and directed a video for the track that was inspired by his work to
begin with. This title track also shows the band's shift move toward a more
synth-centric sound, as currently Sinkovich splits his time between keyboards
and guitars almost evenly at this point on stage on in the studio. The final
track "Frozen Human Satellite" was originally composed as an instrumental.
The track was further developed in the studio with friend Bruce Lamont of
Yakuza contributing saxophone and Patrick Morris recording his first-ever
vocals.

The Poison Arrows have been playing live in the Midwest and East with the
likes of Battles, Enon, Indian, Shipping News,Born Ruffians, Dianogah,
Cadence Weapon, School of Language, and many more. Look for them
to tour for the release of the Casual Wave EP.