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Posted in MP3 | music on August 11, 2009
Robin Guthrie of Cocteau Twins - new MP3 from new album
DOWNLOAD: Robin Guthrie - Some Sort of Paradise (MP3 premiere)
"When it comes to School of Seven Bells' sound, they're frequently, very frequently, compared to My Bloody Valentine and the Cocteau Twins - but there is more to them than 'just' being shoegazers - there's an emphasis on electronically-created sounds that underpins each track, and on songs like 'TranceFigure' the vocals take on a tribal feel. "I love My Bloody Valentine and you know, Robin Guthrie did a remix of one of our early demos, 'My Cabal', so I can understand where that idea would come from - [but] we didn't do that intentionally to be completely honest," says Alley. "It's cool because usually the people who say that are people who love shoegaze, so it's a good thing, you know. But we weren't really thinking about that when we made the record."School of Seven Bells, interviewed above, come to NYC for a free Seaport Music show on August 14th (and another date in October). But the real point of this post is the new track from ex-Cocteau Twin Robin Guthrie, above. "Some Sort of Paradise" is off Guthrie's forthcoming album, Carousel, due September 28th on Darla Records.
[School of Seven Bells said to Sweet Oblivion Blog]
This spring, Guthrie released a four-track EP called Angel Falls. Before the year's out he's set to release another, titled Songs To Help My Children Sleep. Album art and tracklist below...
Carousel tracklist
1 some sort of paradise
2 sparkle
3 delight
4 close my eyes and burn
5 search among the flowers
6 mission dolores
7 autochromes
8 the girl with the little wings
9 waiting by the carousel
10 little big fish
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Posted on August 11, 2009 3:56 PM
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Comments (5)
similarities between the cocteau twins and my bloody valentine? yuckies
Posted by Anonymous | August 11, 2009 4:21 PM
yuckies? did you try listening to a one of trent's last albums. sorry 'bout that
Posted by Anonymous | August 11, 2009 5:43 PM
all of guthrie's solo work sounds like cocteau twins without liz fraser. just saying.
Posted by kenyon | August 12, 2009 2:01 PM
Kenyon, you're 100% correct. I was going to say the same thing. I just wish they'd reform... heard on the DL they were...also heard someone close to LF say she was moving incredibly slow + held up the massive attack album a bit. But back to Guthrie...
Posted by tizzle | August 12, 2009 3:43 PM
I agree that Robin's solo stuff does sound very similar to Cocteau Twins without Elizabeth. Sometimes I listen to 3:19 and make up vocal lines for Elizabeth in my head.
Posted by Callum | August 23, 2009 5:59 AM