Doves, A Place To Bury Strangers, Elbow, Meat Whiplash, Verve, The Field Mice, The Jesus And Mary Chain, Long-View, Radiohead, My Bloody Valentine, Six By Seven, The Warlocks, Slowdive, Joy Division, Her Name Is Calla, Puressence, The December Sound, Spiritualized, DJ Shadow, iLiKETRAiNS, Interpol, Exit Calm, Ride.....
Sounds Like
"Echoes of halcyon days of Six By Seven mixed with a hefty dose of noise unashamedly borrowed from the band's increasing love affair with the NYC noise scene"
Drowned in Sound
If it’s a history lesson you want then you’ve come to the wrong place. As Ian Brown once said so casually during those first strains of youth: “The past is yours, the future is MINE.”
And so the same can be said of Mint Ive. Nottingham as a city hasn’t exactly got the best reputation as far as bestowing up-and-coming musical talent on the rest of the world is concerned. Basically, you can count any worthwhile past produce on the fingers of one hand.
Mint Ive are aware of this as much as anyone, which is why now, after two years of steadily honing their songwriting and live performances around the city and beyond, they are ready to unleash their undoubted potential onto the rest of us.
This year alone has already seen them play a sell out JD set show with the Maccabees, three Drowned In Sound club nights alongside the likes of Komakino, Her Name Is Calla and Club AC30 stalwarts Air Formation, while inbetween all that they also became the first unsigned band to sell out the city’s Bodega Social venue in advance (Review).
Aside from that, critical acclaim has been pouring in from all quarters, with Nightfly proclaiming them as“the best band Nottingham has had to offer for some time”, Sandman describing their live set as“eerily haunting...yet delightfully menacing”, and Primal Scream’s Mani being so impressed by one of their shows he immediately offered them a residency at Manchester’s Blue Cat Café.
In the meantime they have been recording with Doggen (Spiritualized, Julian Cope), Chris Olley (Six.By Seven) and Chris Moore (Model Morning, Echoboy) while early next year will see them heading back into the studio to complete their as-yet untitled debut album.
Along with the likes of Exit Calm, Model Morning and Nova Saints, Mint Ive are taking the hallowed sounds of early 90s shoegazing to a new audience reared on grit-clenched songwriting and a passion for affluent characters amidst the current trend for faceless artists within the music industry.
Hello, how you doing? Thanks for the friendship, come over and have a listen to some of our rough tunage, let us know what you think, regards Conductors x
If you would like a FREE MP3 please send an email to info@lostaura.co.uk RE: FREE MP3, and we'll send you just that!
We're making some finishing touches to our new EP, recorded at The Animal Farm London. Be sure to head back soon and have a listen :) Come by and say hello anytime.
Our
single ‘MARAUDER’ is now available on I TUNES (through A PERFECT NOISE RECORDS)
along with ‘COMEDOWN’ and ‘MIRRORS’, pop on , purchase if you like and let us
know what you think. CM x
Alt:Lion 6 is ready for your tabs. This month: .Jon and Dan get excited about the impending festival season, talk their usual load of highly-informed rammell, set the question of the month and spin local tunage until they have to sit down for a bit... Tracklist
Jupiter Monkeys - Bitterpill Blues Dog is Dead: Clockwork Yunioshi - When Made of Leaves - Blue Minaret Captain Dangerous - She Still Loves You Lisa DeVille - Blue Nemo Shaw - Good Times Rory McCarthy - Warm Gun
