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14th April 2009
Jeniferever album streaming on amplifiermagazine.com this week!
Hello,
The folks at Amplifier magazine were so impressed by the new Jeniferever album that they asked us to allow them to stream it for a week on their website. You can hear it here this week on their player: http://www.amplifiermagazine.com
Also, the folks at The Word magazine were so impressed by the Jeniferever track "Lives Apart" that they asked if they could include it on their covermount CD. The issue is out now.
14th April 2009
65daysofstatic featured on Clash music website all week!
To celebrate the release of the new live album + DVD by 65daysofstatic, 'Escape From New York', the Clash Magazine website has a week-long feature this week all about 65daysofstatic, called '5daysof65days'; focusing on the band's past and present achievements and featuring a different free track to download each day.
Check it out here: http://www.clashmusic.com
12th April 2009
Great new videos by Barzin, Reigns and Jeniferever!
We're really pleased to have some excellent new videos to share with you!
Jeniferever - 'Green Meadow Island'
Jeniferever are currently touring in the UK / Europe. Here is the killer video for their song "Green Meadow island" from their new album 'Spring Tides', which is released this week. The video was recently debuted on the Drowned in Sound music website.
credits:
Directed by: Oscar Ljungholm / Mattis Gustavsson
Director of photography: Erik Nordlund
Edited by: Filip Sellberg
Production by: A.C.T. Sweden
Reigns 'Everything Beyond These Walls Has been Razed'
Those incredibly clever and talented folks at Medlo and Phlegm Comics have teamed up once again to create a stunning animation for the Reigns track 'Everything Beyond These Walls Has been Razed' from their new album, 'The House On The Causeway', which is out now. Their last collaborative project for us was the truly wonderful 'Space Station' video for Aaron Stout, and Medlo themselves have been the creative brains behind all those fabulous 65daysofstatic videos you've loved over the years, and also the moody brilliance of The Low Lows' 'Dear Flies, Love Spider' video. We are very proud to be associated with their creative output!
Reigns - Everything Beyond These Walls Has Been Razed from monotreme records on Vimeo.
The video was featured on the front page of The Daily Motion for a whole week and got over 14,000 plays!
Barzin - 'Nobody Told Me'
And another stunner for the track 'Nobody Told Me' by Barzin - the lushly gorgeous work of director Brian Harrington and camera person Lynda Hall. Feast your eyes and ears!
Barzin - Nobody Told Me from monotreme records on Vimeo.
BIG thanks to all the people who laboured so hard for so little to make these videos possible. <3
26th March 2009
Jeniferever and 65daysofstatic new album pre-sales and tour dates!
After the excitement of the recent new Barzin, Stinking Lizaveta and Reigns releases, (all of which have been very well-received by the press, with all 3 bands still on tour this month!), you might think that we would be content to sit back and rest, but instead, we have two more stunning releases for you by two stunning bands coming out very soon...
We are super-thrilled to be releasing the new album 'Spring Tides' by Jeniferver (from Sweden)on the 13th of April worldwide except for the far east, where it will be released by Thomason Sound.
But if you are like the many people who wrote to us saying they just can't wait that long, you can pre-order the album now from our web shop, and we will ship it out by the 3rd of April. The album comes in a lovely deluxe digipak with some seriously beautiful artwork. And the music itself? Absolutely sublime!! All pre-orders will come with a free poster.
'Spring Tides' is already getting loads of press/radio attention all over - here in the UK, the track 'Green Meadow Island was recently 'single of the week' on Iain Baker's NME Radio show, and tracks will be featured on the covermount CDs of the next issues of Word Magazine and Rock Sound magazine. If you happen to be in Germany, look out for features in Visions Magazine and Sonic Seducer and a track on the covermount CD for Eclipsed Magazine. The album is also making a big splash on the blogosphere in the USA as the campaign starts up over there. And lots more to come, too!
Jeniferever's European release tour kicks off on the 1st of April in Germany and runs well into May, including a very special album launch show at The Luminaire in London on the 10th of April, with some nice treats and surprises for everyone. Please see our 'shows' page or the band's myspace page (myspace.com/jeniferever) for the latest dates, and keep checking, as more are being added.
Coming hard on the heels of the Jeniferever album is an absolute belter of a live album from homegrown heroes 65daysofstatic. You may recall that last year the band spent a few months on the road touring with The Cure in Europe and north America. The tour culminated in 2 great shows in new York City - at Madison Square Garden and Radio City Music Hall. These shows were recorded and mixed, and selected tracks will appear on the 'Escape From New York' live album, which is out on the 20th of April in Europe. Also during the tour, a video documentary, '65doc', was made by Version Industries, produced by Caspar Newbolt. A DVD of the documentary is also included in the 'Escape from New York' album, so you can catch a behind-the-scenes peek at what life on the road and onstage was like for the band. In case you are curious, here is a little preview - 'Radio Protector' live:
65daysofstatic - Radio Protector (Promo Cut) from monotreme records on Vimeo.
We are now taking pre-orders of the album, which will ship by the 10th of April. And of course, there will be loads of tour activity throughout April/May and into the summer festivals, so please check our shows page or the band's own website (www.65daysofstatic.com) for all the latest updates!
8th March 2009
Reigns - 'The House On The Causeway' Release and Tour!
Just a shout to remind everyone that the truly awesome new album by Reigns, 'The House On The Causeway', is out on Monday. But you can buy it on CD and vinyl and mp3 in our web shop at www.monotremerecords.com now!
The vinyl version comes with a free CD of the album. The artwork for both CD and vinyl is stunning, and was done by Reigns operatives A and B!
The album has been getting great reviews in the press and also airplay by Rob Da Bank, John Kennedy, Tom Robinson, Lauren Laverne, Gideon Coe and the fabulous Glass Shrimp.
There will be a live album release show in London on Monday the 9th (that’s tomorrow!) and Cambridge on the 10th, followed by a couple more UK dates at the end of the month and a week of shows in France and Belgium. in April.
Here are the dates – hope to see you there!
9th March 2009 London, UK @ The Windmill (Brixton)
10th March 2009 Cambridge, UK @ The Portland Arms
28th March 2009 London, UK @ Arts Depot, Tally Ho! North Finchley with Vic Chestnutt, Elf Power and more
29th March 2009 Brighton, UK @ The Hanbury Ballroom
(advance tickets: http://www.wegottickets.com/event/39459)
5th April 2009 Maldegem, BEL @ Cultuurhuis Maison Vox
6th April 2009 Dijon, FR @ Kill Your Pop Festival
7th April 2009 Paris, FR @ La Fleche D’or
8th April 2009 Lille, FR @ La Chimere
9th April 2009 Rennes, FR @ 1929
10th April 2009 Nantes, FR @ Le Lieu Unique
And here are a few press quotes for the new album:
"By creating such outlandish narratives, the British duo manage to both resurrect the idea of the album as an all-encompassing event and subvert the usual marketing of music, the relentless focus on the personalities behind the sounds. Plus, in addition to being extremely good at spinning a creepy yarn - MR James would surely be impressed - their music is quite excellent…. The effect of such
deeply affecting music allied to conceptual and lyrical content that is almost
absurdly dark, hinting at terrible events and states of appalling mental
anguish, is beguiling and not a little bizarre. At various times it's
difficult to know whether to laugh out loud, break down at the unbearable
poignancy of it all, or go and check all the rooms in the house armed with a
carving knife." (The Wire)
“A low-key blend of folk, neo-classical and prog noises (think John Cale’s productions for Nico with added beats and glitches) it acts as the perfect soundtrack to their spooky spoken-word lyrics.” (Uncut)
“There’s much more to this record than wide-eyed pastiche, with the resolutely sinister vocals occupying a similarly bleak landscape to Gravenhurst and the splashes of guitar evoking the best of Texan post-rock, but many of the sea-sick electronic textures could well have come straight from “Music Has The Right To Children”. Of course, that’s not necessarily a bad thing, and for those still mired in mid-winter depression, this should provide a fitting soundtrack.” (8/10) (Rock Sound - look out for the feature in the new issue too).
“Is that a candle being snuffed out? The scribbling nib of a lunatic poet? A piece of masking tape being ripped from a mouth? Quite possibly not. This is music that rewards the imaginative, the illogical and the ever-so-slightly insane.” (Time Out)
.“‘…Causeway’ is a bit like watching that part in ‘Poltergeist’ where the kid opens his eyes and the clown has left the seat. There’s that imminent sense of dread, knowing that it’s going to burst out at any moment. Except with ‘…Causeway’ there’s no burst, just a well crafted sense of almost pleasant uneasiness.” (Terrorizer)
'The House On The Causeway' is electronicmmusicians Reigns' third studio LP, and is the musical equivalent of a snowstorm in northern Russia. At times violent and at others frigidly cold and still, 'Causeway' is, ultimately, a beautiful scope of experimental electronic-folk seen through a broken kaleidoscope of monotone colour” (CMU Daily)....
From the epic melancholia of ‘Bad Slate’ to the spooky brilliance of ’Mirrors At Night’ and ’Vaulted’, Reigns are befuddling brilliant; the only real criticism with ‘The House On The Causeway’ is that it arrived too late for Halloween. Singing like they have collectively trapped their balls in a car door, these brothers Grimm fashion a compellingly aeriform racket that is far more heartfelt and considered than the majority of today’s numbing indie flotsam. Ghostly ambience, distorted vocals and eerie electronics segue beautifully into instrumental breaks of folky melodica and chilling stabs of piano, the whole package unfurling with an ethereal grandeur that charms and unsettles in equal measure. (Canned Applause)
It's spooky, it's challenging and it's as close to an out of body experience as you'll get this side of Most Haunted. It's also one of the most original albums you'll hear all year. (The Devil Has The Best Tuna)....
Evocative, thoughtful, and serious, The House On The Causeway is a
fantastic new story from Reigns that shows a further maturation in their
sound. Add to that the morose mood of the subject matter that touches me in all
the right spots, and I have a nigh-on perfect album in my hands. (Autothrall)
"Reigns supremely good album." (4/5) (Subba-Cultcha)
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