Songs from an Attic

by Misophone

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1.	Good Morning Sun 01:01	buy track
2.	Swan's Road 02:27	buy track
3.	Tides and Sighs 04:26	buy track
4.	The End of a Love Affair 03:04	buy track
5.	Blackbird On a Gravestone 04:01	buy track
6.	What the Water Gave to Me 03:37	buy track
7.	The Closest I've Ever Got to Love 03:12	buy track
8.	Time Is a Bully We All Pretend to Love 02:22	buy track
9.	Castles in the Sand (Part 2) 00:42	buy track
10.	Last Night 04:43	buy track
11.	Backgarden Bastards 02:42	buy track
12.	Barnaby Flower 02:46	buy track
13.	I Am a Mountain Dog 03:25	buy track
14.	From Beyond the Bridge 01:23	buy track
15.	The Untold Joke 03:11	buy track
16.	Rock Scissor Stone 03:00	buy track
17.	Everything Has Changed 02:38	buy track
18.	Song from an Attic 01:17	buy track

about

Pots and pans rattle and clatter, bird song chirps and coos, mellotrons warble and trombones rage. The range of their instrumentation has grown, and is still as vibrant and intriguing as ever.

Misophone’s music is unlike anything you’ve heard before, but there are occasional echoes of « Neutral Milk Hotel » or « M Ward » in their dusty ballads and oblique lyricism. There are ghosts of The Sinking of the Titanic era Gavin Bryars, and a claustrophobic, queasy carnival atmosphere. The tone is uneasy and at times ever so slightly threatening.

Vocally they are more expressive than on previous recordings, and their musical style has also grown in confidence. They sound almost 60’s pop on the bouncing « Swan’s Road » (which features the pure and ethereal voice of Aubben Renée), bash out deranged Beefheartesque electric blues on « What the Water Gave », and find the time to delve into spaced out jazz, English traditional folk, Marching band dirges, infanticide and in « I am a Mountain Dog », the just plain weird.

Two songs are given extra strength by the storming trombone of reticent Frenchman « Alone with King Kong », who charges the brass led stomp of « The End of a Love Affair » like a baying hound, and adds a carnival bounce to the creeping fairy tale nightmare of « Barnaby Flower ». Aubben Renée also adds her elegant vocals to the backwoods folk of « Time Is a Bully We All Pretend To Love », a disturbing tale with a sting in its tail.

Misophone drift between dark and light, between lyrical introspection and petulant sarcasm, but ultimately what holds you is the timelessness of the music. This record pops and fizzes like a lost phonograph; dogs bark, blackbirds rest in churchyards, and ghosts sing old love songs. Misophone have a truly original voice, we urge you to enter into their world.

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released December 5, 2011

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Misophone UK

Email: misophone@hotmail.co.uk
Facebook: www.facebook.com/misophone.official/
Twitter: @Misophone1
Instagram: @misophoneofficial

Misophone have been recording for almost two decades. In that time, they have recorded countless songs, stared at the sea
and generally hidden from view. ... more

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