| Member Since | 5/16/2006 | | Band Website | bleedingheartnarrative.com | | Band Members | written and recorded by me. but people who've played live as part of bleeding heart narrative... alastair bailey, benjamin gaymer, bridget samuels, clarissa carlyon, henry barrett, jan moys, john m f casey, jorja chalmers, matthew mills, max bondi, michael wright, rebecca mears, simon trevethick, thea barrett | | Influences | words, noise, the woods, tapes, grapefruits, crumbling cities, skeletons, old books, the sea, drawing, cheap red wine and frantic conversation, torn paper, tea, cogs and clockwork, the lump in your throat, clouds, rust, the minor rush from the first drink when everything is all possibility, my friends, woodsmoke, the catskills, retro-futurism, cellos, reykjavik, crying til you're spent, rain, dusty attics, comics, ginger, writing on my hand, the confused re-entry into the real world after seeing good films in the cinema, empty beaches, old vinyl, teenage sentiment, faded british seaside holiday destinations, drifting off, notebooks, berlin balconies, abandoned beaches, insects around lamplight, pins and needles, my siblings, collaboration, cardboard, norwegian mountains, chewing-gum marks on the pavement, busratch, snow, graphite, creaky floorboards, sputtering candles, polaroids, a numb face from the cold, leaning the room, caffeine, david attenborough, print on paper, canary wharf at night, torn skin on your fingers, fairytales, cold air in your lungs, sunlight on your back, tree silhouettes, quiet, coney island, forms and transmissions, astronomy, wilderness, overnight trans-siberian train journeys, victorian adventure stories, science i barely understand, pin-badges, a lack of irony, a diy ethic, the cusp, and everything else and everything else and everything else | | Sounds Like | 
"Layered cellos, pianos and all mixed together with a general eerie drone. It's dark and light....happy and sad..... incredibly emotive and one one of the most interesting records we've heard here in a long long time. It pricked up the collective office ears which is rare thing these days. Will appeal to fans of Hood, Stars of The Lid, early Constellation releases. This is seriously good." - NORMAN RECORDS
"A constantly evolving autumnal orchestra of layered pianos, guitars, cellos and restrained noise" - BE PREPARED
"This has to be THE find of 2008! Bleeding Heart Narrative has constructed a unique, haunting and compelling album. We can't recommend this highly enough!" - COLD SPRING RECORDS
"a multi-layered construction, with the smattering of vocals fighting to make themselves heard amongst bursts of caustic noise, dense electronics, and some clever classical elements... It works, not just because of the fastidiousness of the beast’s creation , but by virtue of the way it is sewn together by the aching sense of sadness which pervades the music and the lyrics (and the track titles, the album title and the band name…)" - MAPSADAISICAL
"It’s always refreshing to come across an act who are happy to chuck out the rule book and come up with something constantly shifting, surprising and eclectic, whilst not being willfully obtuse... This is a seriously good record – way beyond promising" - MUSIC MUSINGS AND MISCELLANY
"Every once in a while something extraordinary manages to come my way with a power that is hard to deny. Such is the case with this London-based band's debut album, a stratospheric collection of musically mature, beautifully crafted, and subtly layered compositions that refuse to remain earthbound... I felt that the mundane world was left far behind, and I was floating in the skies of another world entirely... This is a marvellously complex album, displaying a compositional maturity usually garnered through decades of experience and learning... A startling album that certainly in my view stands head and shoulders above many a debut." - BRAINWASHED
"Call it avant-pop, call it anti-folk, call it what you will: they do it beautifully...an absolutely amazing EP – the joining of two musicians who are seemingly made for each other, and the charming, comfortingly sleepy and beautiful noises they have made together." - THE 405
"It’s a bit of a special record really, seemingly meandering in it’s approach. It appears to just throw notes in wherever it fancies, mixing styles and genre with scant regard for convention, and although it might not always quite come off as hoped, it’s worth it just to go along for the journey." - SONIC REVERIE
"the two of them seem to strum, thrum, bash, tinkle, string, pick, pluck and plink a hundred instruments; whittling and smoothing and carving all those harps and cellos and kalimbas and pianos and drums and samples into tiny nuggets of organic wonder...it’s quite beautiful. charmingly intricate yet subtly simple. i’m slightly in love with it. but not in a creepy way." - COWS ARE JUST FOOD
"Wire and String is an almost supernatural record that takes those most authentic of instruments (harp, cello, piano, and of course voice) dismantles them into bits of code and reassembles them in a way that can only be described as ethereal." - THE LINE OF BEST FIT
"Tongue Tangled Hair is the difficult second album, except it isn’t. It chews up and spits out that tired old cliche. It represents a massive leap on from its predecessor. Indeed, although I’m loathe to chuck around words like classic on an album I’ve only had less than a week, I feel compelled to do so in this case. It really is that good." - MUSIC MUSINGS AND MISCELLANY
"This is shaping up to be something absolutely amazing by the sound of it! ...a startlingly assured record! What a talent, this man and his players truly deserve your undivided love & attention!!" (ALBUM OF THE WEEK) - NORMAN RECORDS
"like the astronaut/sky diver adorning the booklet inside there’s a real sense of space, of being alone, of floating or falling about the music. and a general melancholic vibe (i think that about anything with a cello…). but frankly this is a thing of bruised grace, of genuine beauty." - COWS ARE JUST FOOD
"Tongue Tangled Hair is a stunning record, and one that finds Barrett in sensational form." - THE LINE OF BEST FIT
"Tongue Tangled Hair is an enigmatic and beautiful album of the kind that you can fall in love with during the long, oncoming winter nights." - SUPERSWEET | | Record Label | tartaruga records | | Type of Label | Indie |
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