EXIT LABEL’S NEW ADDITION - AUTOPARK!

Autopark’s latest album Autopakao, released in February of this year for the labels “Odličan hrčak“ and the British “Parobrod“, is now available for free download at Exitmusic.rs. The fourth album by the Belgrade-based band is, as defined by the members, a clash of guitar noise and a soft pop melody, poisoned by the influences of American and English bands from the set of the 80’s and the beginning of the 90’s.

More than a decade the band has been united in creating a musical melodrama, and is still fighting with personal and social demons. Often, they are labeled as alternative, whose sound is based on confessional lyrics surrounded by guitar noise and singalong melodies, though the band members do not prefer definitions in music, claiming that it compromises freedom. Music is an organic need, that is all.

The first Autopark album, named 10plus1 was self-released on the Internet, in 2004. The second album, Osećanja za poneti (English: Takeout Feelings) (2006) was released for Multimedia records, and the third, Sve dalje (English: Everything Further) (2009) was again, self-released.

The fourth album Autopakao (English: Autohell) is an album a bit  “laid back“ comparing to the previous ones. The distortion on the album is low, yet atmosphere, ambient and thanks to the producer Saša Janković – music are highly present, whatever that “music” is and how its meaning is described. The lyrics are, once again, about interpersonal relations, everything that surrounds us, failed relationships and constant self-interrogations.

So far, Exit’s audience had several chances to see Autopark live, at the festival and concerts around the country and the region, but their main media attention was drawn with music videos from Autopakao - ‘Autookean’, ‘Mi pomeramo stvari’ (English: We Move Things, from the movie “The Box”) and ‘Orvel Džordž’  (English: Orwell George).

Autopakao was recorded by: Ognjenka Lakićević (vocals), Nikola Berček (guitars, vocals), Dušan Lopušina (guitars), Milan Bogdanović (bass), Dejan Utvar (drums) and Aleksandar Sivački (keyboards).

Autopark proudly joins the EXIT label’s fight for important values that are dying out.

EXIT Label is an online label, created in February 2009 as a reply to the distribution of music at the time, with a desire to give a chance for domestic and regional acts to be promoted, via free download as well as concerts all around the region. This way, Exit puts the existing infrastructure and promotional campaigns in bands’ favour. Exit online label will continue to represent the best domestic and regional names, whose albums will be available for free download, and will actively promote musicians from the scene. All Exit label’s releases can be downloaded from Exitmusic.rs.