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THE OTHER SIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN, Suzy Mangion's first solo album after George, is OUT NOW on Pickled Egg Records. Purchase available from excellent record shops, online stores, download sites and www.pickled-egg.co.uk.

Starting from a cupboard with a piano & a drumkit in it, Durham City, England, Suzy began her public music-making as one half (with Michael Varty) of school boy-girl band George in 1994. George released a number of acclaimed secret pop records on vinyl collector labels Earworm & Bad Jazz in the late 90s, and eventually released their debut album The Magic Lantern on Pickled Egg records in 2003. An EP, All Good Things, was released in Spain on Lejos Discos, and the 2005 George album A Week of Kindness was released on both labels.

Suzy is one half of gentle duo THE WINTER JOURNEY, and a member of Spanish electronica act ARBOL. She also collaborated with Piano Magic on their album Writers Without Homes (4AD), and on the Big Eyes Family Players's Do The Musiking (Pickled Egg).

Here's what the writing people say about her:

"as electronically creepy as the most terrifying moments on the new Portishead... but when she breaks out the overdubbed vocal work the rapturous overload is its own reward. There's more variety, and more beauty, on here than most other albums are going to show this year." (Plan B)

"Suzy Mangion's pure voice cuts through the muggy layer of postmodernism to deliver songs that beautifully capture a sense of perpetual loss through the passing of time itself." (The Wire)

"the purity of her intent is reassuringly untainted. Such lack of compromise does result in some truly spellbinding stuff" (Delusions of Adequacy)

"It’s hard to objectively review Suzy Mangion as her music with George can reduce grown men to tears... If Suzy were from across the Atlantic she’d be headlining ATP " (www.rockfood.co.uk)

"Over 40 minutes this album never puts a foot wrong, with a crystal clear production the icing on a sweet and very beautiful cake." (www.terrascope.co.uk)

"One minute Mangion sounds like Joni Mitchell crooning over a Wurlitzer, the next she’s whispering like Vincent Gallo’s long-lost cousin over a fragile score of guitars, chimes, strings and loops. Either way, the results are never less than mesmerising." (Uncut)

"This is a far from ordinary record by a singer capable of casting an intimate and melancholy spell. Suzy Mangion creates a spiritual atmosphere from very little." (www.popmatters.com)

"album of the week... ground breaking, cutting edge folktronica and beautiful underground harmonies. After a number of astoundingly brilliant and widely awarded reviews, Suzy Mangion has now gone solo, taking with her a striking voice and some of the most mesmerising tunes on the circuit... track after track of blinding excellence... A spectacularly wonderful range of vocal cuts and rather amazing tunes make this Mangion’s finest hour." (www.music-dash.co.uk)

"very beautiful, ethereal, folky, plaintive and spare" (Stuart Maconie, Radio 6)

"this is nothing less than mesmerising... very special" (Sleazenation)

"Every now and then an album comes along that crawls under your skin and makes you shudder with delight. The Magic Lantern is one of those albums. " (City Life)

"an album so intimate and yet so delicately deceiving that you’ll think the word elegant was made for it." (Losing Today)

"emanating from some slower, sadder, and more beautiful planet." (Dream Magazine)

"C’est merveilleux et effrayant, tout ce qu’on peut voir dans cette Magic Lantern." (Les Inrocks)

"George have fashioned a truly formidable first album (with little or no outside inference) that is rich with imagination and blessed with bountiful beatific grace. So fully formed is the sound on The Magic Lantern, that it’s anyone’s guess where George can go from here. In the meantime, however, raise a toast to this year’s most distinctive and downright magical debut." (Delusions of Adequacy)

"One of two majestic, graceful avant-folk records that captured a sense of geography this year, George's The Magic Lantern combined jumble-sale instrumentation, found-sound percussion, and whispering-woods acoustic guitars to create evocative, rustic English pop. Singer Suzy Mangion's haunting voice hovers and floats through faded-photograph arrangements like an ominous cloud, creating alternating senses of wonder and doom that seem swiped from the celluloid of a Hammer horror film." (Pitchfork Media, records of the year)

"what should be celebrated here is the fact that the group has taken their sweet time in creating a debut album of unbelievable emotional depth and grand simplicity." (w-h-y)

"it doesn't take too many passes through songs like "The Living Sound" or "The New and Better Heart" to remember your bruised, inner romantic. And then I find myself back in George's living room world, banjo in the corner of "Song of Degrees" and waving goodbye after a whistle and swing on "Older Too". It's all very dramatic, sure. It's also beautiful" (Pitchfork Media)

"Uno di quei dischi... "A Week Of Kindness" è un lungo e sinuoso capolavoro di atemporalità, un album-tributo ai sentimenti, una emozionante bancarella di restaturo di canzoni antiche riemerse dalla memoria. Se fosse appena meno esplicito, non sarebbe altrettanto bello." (www.indiepop.it)

"As musicians, Manchester folk duo George thrive on sadness. They are odd, possibly eccentric people who seem to prefer old-fashioned feelings like love, suspense, and resonance to modern-day emotions like rage and vitriol." (www.betamusic.com)

"George keep the pulse rate low, a single tear threatening to form, while ‘Week Of Wonders’ captures an elfin woodland innocence. Beautiful lo-fi ethereality." (vanity project zine)

"The solo artiste she now is should get all the attention that should be coming her way because of that lovely pure voice, the delicate songwriting involved and her sometimes hypnotizing performance." (pennyblackmusic)

SUZY MANGION IS LOOKING FOR SHOESTRING (OR SO) FILMMAKERS OR FILMTRYERS TO MAKE SHORT FILMS OF ANY KIND FOR HER NEW ALBUM "THE OTHER SIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN". ANYONE INTERESTED IN COLLABORATING, PLEASE GET IN TOUCH.