Out of all the nine tracks I produced for Ape last year this is my personal favourite.
It’s got this strange dark undercurrent going on- with monks chanting and a lot of dissonance-some people find it quite hard to listen to but it seems absolutely perfect to me—balanced-but just teetering on the edge of disaster.
I played it to someone once in headphones and they said it felt like their head was being pulled apart!! Someone else described it in a blog as sounding like “making filthy love in a railway arch, whilst on acid, in 1940s New York”. Which of course I was thrilled by.
When it was in its early days as a bunch of unconnected noises put together by me and Andy, I played it to some other singers to see if they were interested in contributing to it- the reaction was “no- its shit!!”.- hahah – But Jen took these completely random bits of music and glued them into something completely different. From then on it just needed organizing and arranging. I spent months lovingly tweaking and moving it about in a dark obsessive manner.
The video came about as I was messing about watching old cartoons and simultaneously listening to music. I slowed down a Little Audrey cartoon from 1949 to half speed and it’s as if it was made for it- quite spooky really.
It’s on the Hard Listening EP which of course everyone should buy.
Posted by steve at September 2nd, 2010 5:19 am | Add Comment
Released on 23th February DOWNLOAD for FREE your copy now and get a bonus unreleased track ‘Mind’
‘Disappear’ is taken from the forthcoming album ‘Dog Eared Moonlight’ which is already receiving many plaudits from the music press.
‘Everyman pop that’s due an everyman audience’ RECORD COLLECTOR ****
‘A masterclass in classy songwriting’ ANDY GILL INDEPENDENT ***
‘10 songs of finely wrought, melodic English rock’ Q ***
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Pre order your copy of the album on CD before 9th March and get the whole album free as a mp3 at the time you place your order.
Posted by steve at February 23rd, 2009 8:29 am | Add Comment
In this, the first of two podcasts, The Milk and Honey Band frontman Robert White gives you a fascinating insight into the influences and inspirations behind the recording of their brand new album DOG EARED MOONLIGHT.
The album is released on 9th March, so go to the Ape store now where you can pre order your CD and get a FREE digital copy of the album to download straight away.
The single ‘Disappear’ will be available FREE to download from 23rd February.
The Making Of Dog Eared Moonlight pt1 [14:21m]:
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Posted by steve at February 12th, 2009 7:30 am | 4 Comments
Watch the video of the song ‘Disappear’, the forthcoming free single available from this site from 23rd February. One of the many highlights from the new album Dog Eared Moonlight released 9th March.
Frontman Robert White say’s ‘We wanted to do something very simple that actually resembled us playing the song as we would play it in rehearsal. So what better way than filming it where we rehearse… it looked a little too realistic until we made it black and white and zapped it through the ‘Anton Corbijn Filter’ and suddenly it looked quite moody and posh.’
The video was shot and directed by Robert and Jan and edited by Robert.’
Posted by steve at February 4th, 2009 9:56 am | 1 Comment
