 Selected Releases
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Wilderness / Old Friends (AA split single)
For some years now, the South Coast has been quietly inundated by a flood tide of musicians with pop sensibilities, and indie attitude, and weird instruments hell-bent on re-inventing what has loosely been called 'folk-pop' or 'folktronica.' But why release one genre-bending track when two present themselves? Attacking the humble yokels of pop from both flanks - the acoustic and the electronic - we present a Sotones split AA single: The Moulettes & Peter Lyons. THE MOULETTES return from their Italian tour to finish off their debut LP for Sotones. They have been compared to Beirut, The Bad Seeds and The Pogues, but the truth is they're much more fun than that and Hannah and Ruth front the band with more balls than that gang of wet farts put together, Shane MacGowan included. Which is probably why festivals (Glasto, SGP, Bestival) have been clamouring to book them again this year. This single builds a simple cello riff into a howling acoustic assault and is taken from their debut LP recorded at Ranch with Neil Kennedy (Thomas Tantrum, Glad Rags, Chin Music), which will be released on Sotones in June 09. PETER LYONS' beautiful lo-fi folktronica recordings for Tape Club Records (he was up to Album Two at an age when most musicians can barely play a scale, grr) have rightfully earned him a cult following on the internet and sessions for the BBC as well as an appearance at The Great Escape festival. What's less well understood is the intimacy, fragility and defiance he brings to these songs given the full studio treatment; it seems like everyone's been asking him when he's doing a 'proper' release for his whole life now, and the occasion of his debut release on Sotones seems like an excellent time to us!
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