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MIST034 The Good Fight by royalchord
royalchord are Tammy Haider and Eliza Hiscox from Melbourne via Berlin, London & Guatemala. The new royalchord record The Good Fight sees them combine electronics with their neurotic and melancholic sensibility, delivering songs that range from summer pop to funereal folk.
MIST033 THE GUILTY OFFICE by THE BATS
"How reassuring is it that the Bats are touring Australia behind a new album in 2009? Considering the band formed 27 years ago and has only released a handful of albums, we can’t really take anything for granted. And yet the influential and roundly beloved New Zealand quartet, which hasn’t altered in lineup over the decades, is towing the refreshing new The Guilty Office, an album that stands up well against their early, Flying Nun-released classics. That it’s coming out on the Melbourne indie label Mistletone is simply one more cause for celebration." - INPRESS
MIST032 KES BAND II by KES BAND
Superb instrumental album which reveals some new exploratory and filmic dimensions of Melbourne's incredible Kes Band. "A beautiful listen" - INPRESS
MIST031 MY ELECTRIC FAMILY by BACHELORETTE
Bachelorette’s all-new opus MY ELECTRIC FAMILY is a hand-woven sci-folk lullaby that delves into your subconscious and hits you right at your electric core.
Bachelorette video: Her Rotating Head
MIST030 REPO by BLACK DICE
REPO is the sound of a disciplined group of cosmic jokers setting out to reclaim the landscape popular culture would have us believe we cannot afford. The record irreverently mulches the sounds and images of radio, TV and internet into a fertile compost pile squirming with new, raw life. Deluxe digipak comes with 20-page eye candy booklet.
MIST029 BROMST by DAN DEACON
Three years in the making, Bromst is intense and epic, yet down to earth and welcoming. Bromst embodies all the energy and excitement of a Dan Deacon live show, but with a richer palette of acoustic and mechanical instruments (player piano, marimba, glockenspiel, vibraphone, live drums, winds and brass), samples and electronics…. all woven together into a rich, dense, noisy dance pop that has become Dan’s signature sound. Comes with a rad DIY Bromst tent!
MIST028 CHANT DARLING by LAWRENCE ARABIA
Chant Darling is Lawrence Arabia's second album, hewn out of the dual cliches of difficult second album syndrome and the Antipodean relocation to London. Recorded over 18 months in a studio in Stockholm, three flats in London, a garden shed in Port Chalmers, a car club in Wellington and a studio in Auckland, Chant Darling is an embarrassment of pop riches with some of the finest, warmest hearted and plain catchiest songs we've heard!
V. funny Lawrence Arabia video: Beautiful Young Crew
MIST027 THIS IS IT AND I AM IT AND YOU ARE IT AND SO IS THAT AND HE IS IT AND SHE IS IT AND IT IS IT AND THAT IS THAT by MARNIE STERN
Ok. Let's get this out of the way. Marnie Stern can shred. She's a better guitar player than you, or me, or probably 99% of the people who have ever looked at a guitar. Her album This Is It and I Am It and You Are It and So Is That and He Is It and She Is It and It Is It and That Is That rules everything, and Mistletone is super excited to be releasing it in Australia & New Zealand. Look out for a winter tour!
Awesome Marnie Stern video! Ruler
MIST026 THE GOOD FEELING MUSIC OF DENT MAY & HIS MAGNIFICENT UKULELE
The incredibly impressive debut full length by Dent May from Oxford, Mississippi who was recently discovered by Animal Collective and signed to their Paw Tracks label. With excitement reaching a fever pitch a new term has been coined: Dent Maynia. Catch it!
Dent may video: Howard
Dent May video: Meet Me In The Garden
MISTO25 BAD VIBRATIONS by PANEL OF JUDGES
Panel of Judges have made the modest masterpiece of their 10 year career. Bad Vibrations crystallises everything that is great about these beloved bastions of the Melbourne underground: restless imagination, lazily catchy melodies, epic rhythms, and heavenly riffs. Out now on vinyl and CD!
MIST024 COSA ASTRAL by COCONOT
Coconot (Pablo Díaz-Reixa, Cristian Subirà and Jens Neumaier) are frontrunners of Barcelona’s thriving underground music scene. Their incredible new album Cosa Astral is a stunning leap forwards which twists the limits of pop music into a new sphere. Here is a place where beauty flows and joy shines forth in a riot of colorful, swirling tropicalismo-psychedelics. The soundtrack to a heady, sunshiney summer!
MIST023 BEACHES by BEACHES
The debut self titled album by Beaches is a journey into the sublime. Twelve songs born out of sprawling jams, chiselled into rough-diamond perfection, laden with cosmic guitar stretches, vast textures, conjuring voices and phantom frequencies. Hailing from Melbourne, Australia, the five women of Beaches have created a psych-rock epic, steeped in the imagery of the natural and temporal world.
MIST022 DELAYS by MARK BARRAGE
Cracked pop fuzzbox MARK BARRAGE makes a nervy sound tonic, equal parts pop music EQd to breaking point and midnight crucifix synth-kraut. Three years in the making, Delays by Mark Barrage finds the dissonant electronic songster shift from the overtly lyrical, heartbreak-obsessed territory of his debut into realms of hard sound, dance timings, band-ish arrangements and bleary-eyed nighttime sensation.
MISTO21 High Places by High Places
High Places’ self-titled debut was recorded by Rob and Mary in their apartment in Brooklyn’s Fort Greene neighborhood between January and May of 2008. They employed a wide variety of instruments to make this album ranging from the more traditional: 12 string guitar, banjo, shakers and rattles, bass, bells and Kalimba, to the inventive: plastic bags, mixing bowls, wood blocks and other common household objects. The album has a contemplative and organic lyrical tone emphasized by the themes of goodness manifested in nature, hardship and wonder as necessities to human existence and growth.
MIST020 03/07-09-07 by High Places
The first release by Brooklyn duo High Places (Mary Pearson and Rob Barber) is a collection of singles previously only available in the digital world. Only $15 including postage!
Video: High Places - Head Spins
MIST019 Dream Island Laughing Language by Lucky Dragons
Dream Island Laughing Language, the 19th release by Lucky Dragons details the continuing pursuit of a humble and ecstatic, drippy and explosive, smoldering and upset music.
MIST017 Kes Band by Kes Band
The extraordinary Kes Band album is now into its second pressing and available on digipak. Recorded by James Cecil of Architecture in Helsinki fame in his Super Melody World studio, Kes Band is a stupendous leap forward from “The Grey Goose Wing”, with the same adventurous spirit but with a more concise and accessible pop sensibility.
MIST017 CASS Kes Band cassette! $12 including postage :)
MIST018 Alegranza by El Guincho
Mistletone is proud as a parrot to release Alegranza in Australia & New Zealand, in a beautiful glossy digipak. It's a mindblowing mix of afro-beat percussion, calypso harmonies, psych tropicália, world music samplers, doo wop, trance repetition, underwater pop, steel drums and island feeling plus club oriented song structures, uptempo beats and exotica production. Fantástico!
El Guincho video for "Palmitos Park":
MIST016 Devotion by Beach House
The superb second album from Baltimore duo Beach House is called Devotion and it is truly beautiful. The dreamy, hazy lost-world sound of their debut continues with 11 enchanting songs (including a Daniel Johnston cover!)
Beach House video: Used To Be
MIST015 Sympathy for the New World by Ross McLennan
Mistletone is proud to be releasing the new album from Melbourne’s home recording pop genius Ross McLennan! Ross has outdone himself with Sympathy for the New World, a sprawling and majestic collection of pop gems both shiny and dark.
MIST014 The Evening Descends by Evangelicals
Dabbling in glam, slipping in a little funk and soul, drinking the psychedelic Kool-aid, blasting the synths, cranking up the guitars, and wrapping it all up with a dose of pop smarts, The Evening Descends by Oklahoma's Evangelicals is the first great album of 2008! Click on the image above to mail order The Evening Descends and in a fit of generosity we shall send you a copy of the Evangelicals’ mind blowing debut So Gone FREE!
MIST013 Mistletonia Xmas compilation features Evangelicals, High Places, Pikelet, Ned Collette, Barrage, John Maus, Kes Band, Ross McLennan, The Sticks, Jack Ladder, Hands On Heads, Francis Plagne & Grand Salvo featuring Oliver Mann.... guaranteed to stuff your stocking!
MIST012 Load Blown by Black Dice
Load Blown is the fourth album by Brooklyn’s Black Dice. The beats drip and roll, tar-pit voices sing into an oil can, and the guitars crank like calliope. Some tunes crackle and burble like submerged television, others bump and click along like a Summer Jam concert series from another dimension.
MISTO11 Isolation Loops by Bachelorette
Bachelorette is the alter ego of Annabel Alpers, multi-instrumentalist and shining star of the New Zealand indie music scene. Her beautiful album is cosmic folk and psychedelic pop par excellence!
Fractured kaleidoscope pop sound artist extraordinaire, Francis Plagne, was once described by a wise music critic as having "the sensibility of a middle-aged musicologist and the free-form enthusiasm of a teenage music nerd". His second self-titled album is a collaborative release between Mistletone and Synaesthesia Records.
MIST009 Spiderman of the Rings by Dan Deacon
Mistletone's special edition of "Spiderman of the Rings" by our fave absurdist composer Dan Deacon includes a demento bonus track TOTALLY BONER EAT SHIT exclusive to the Australian version + super special artwork.
MIST005 - Beach House by Beach House - Australian edition, enhanced with exclusive video clip for "Master Of None"
Baltimore's Beach House are singer/organist Victoria Legrand and guitarist Alex Scally, a boy-girl duo making lovesick, narcotized rock. Fairground waltzes, ghosted lullabies and woodland hymnals.!
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MIST035 Crisis Tales by Curse ov Dialect
Curse ov Dialect’s new album is a dizzying, multi-dimensional carnival of conscious hip hop. Inspired by surrealistic grappling with questions of identity and evolution, Curse ov Dialect have collectively created Crisis Tales: a psychedelic, kaleidoscopic scrawl of mercurial rage and spasmodic humour, flowing freely into the void of consumer culture.
Release date: Nov 14
Hey hey monsters...... Cayn Borthwick Band are playing a very intimate and very free show this friday at Grumpy's Green on Smith st with support from Ten Pound Henry (Miles O'Neil of Suitcase Royale). Music starts at 8 and goes till late....
Brisbane outfit Toy Balloon will release their debut album Toy Division on
November 8 through Lofly Records, and to celebrate will perform an east coast
launch tour throughout November.
Formed in 2007, Toy Balloon was
originally a fledgling two-piece made up by Nimai Etheridge’s uniquely melodic
wall-of-sound guitar and Greg Cooper’s beautiful sequenced electronic
compositions. The band have since matured into a four piece featuring Chloe
Cooper (Mr Maps) on key boards and Ben Green on drums.
The album was
recorded and mixed at the Lofly Hangar in Brisbane, a DIY performance space that
Toy Balloon has been an integral part of creating. Fostering emerging artists
and left-of-centre music, the Hangar acts as a performance space, recording
studio, and meeting place; and has resulted in a record with a rich, layered
sound reminiscent of New Order, Mogwai, Boards of Canada, and LCD
Soundsystem.
Catch Toy Balloon launch Toy Division at a venue near you
this Oct/ November.
TOY BALLOON TOUR DATES:
Brisbane- Thursday 29
October- The Zoo, Fortitude Valley w/ Moon Jog, Tin Can Radio and Doom
Doom.
Sydney- Wednesday 4 November- ‘Upstarts’ at Spectrum, Darlinghurst
w/ Convaire and Black Bear Brown Bear
Sydney- Thursday 5 November- Oxford
Arts Factory, Darlinghurst w/ World Champion and others
Melbourne-
Saturday 7 November- Pony, Melbourne w/ Love Connection and
Aoi
Melbourne- Sunday 8 November- El Joyero, Melbourne
Toy
Division is released November 6 on Lofly Records, with distribution through MGM.
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