NEW GRAFFITI (4th proper studio album) OUT MAY 11 (Forward/VME). Includes the single New Graffiti feat. Stella Mwangi and Midnight Blue feat. Myrna Braza.
In their 17th year of existence The Loch Ness Mouse release their major work “New Graffiti”, their most ambitious and by far best album to date. The album sets out to blend organic, band played r’n'b and jazz with hip-hop hints & pop elegance into a new kind of musical style, inspired amongst other things by how for instance Guru’s Jazzmatazz or The Roots have merged musical styles into something new. The album is constantly searching and changing in its moods, going from the quiet and emotional Badu-like album key track “Unwarranted” to the hard electric on-the-cornerish jazz of “Ask him” with its two drum kits and wah-wah-ed horns, from the bounce of the title track “New Graffiti” to the muted trumpet solo of the 6+ minutes long “Hang on to your pearls”, another centerpiece of “New Graffiti” and alongside the aforementioned “Unwarranted” maybe the strongest LNM composition ever.
All the lyrics have a field of association related to colors and language, and the record thematically revolves around the possibilities of music, language and art today, facing everything from the death of a close friend to the tiredness of today’s music biz. The new graffiti is up, and turning 15 was only the beginning for this band.
The album features the new 7 people strong permanent line up and is, unlike the last album, very much the result of a real band. The wondeful Stella Mwangi guests on the title track/radio single “New Graffiti”, as does Bergen’s Myrna Braza on “Midnight Blue”. Other guests include Håvard Krogedal (ex-Loch Ness Mouse, ex-Serena Maneesh, now I Was a King) and Morten Øby (ex-Loch Ness Mouse, ex-Serena Maneesh, now Lionheart Brothers).
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Nominations
"11-22" (2005): Pop Album of the Year (Alarm Prize) & Album of the Year (Oslo Prize)
Key West (2002): Pop Album of the Year (Alarm Prize)
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sorry for the mistakes in the comment below, should really check before I post something , it was supposed to read as follows: Hi Got my copy of New Graffiti today and I think it..s great- what I like most about it is the space between the instruments - it sounds very fresh and "airy" (for lack of a better decription) - sometimes playing less can be more ( I hope you know what I mean)-great stuff !!!!!
Hi got my copy of New Graffiti today and I think it..s great- what I like most about is is the space between the instruments - it sounds very fresh and "airy" (for lack of a better decription) - something playing less is more ( I hope you know what I mean)-great stuff !!!!!
Gleder meg masse til å høre resten av albumet! Gi meg en lyd når det er ute, så skal jeg løpe og kjøpe :) :) Vi heier på dere! Håper vi sees igjen snart :) hilsen tomtom & Myrna :)
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