New Single - Limited Edition 12" & Digital Download
29 November 04
They may be separated by a hundred miles and more of English greensward but Matt Huish Saunders and John Hanson are united by uncommon dreams.
It's been a while since their debut album "I Guess Sometimes I Need To Be Reminded Of How Much You Love Me" - more than four years, in fact. But Magnétophone have rarely bothered cultivating a relationship with the zeitgeist, as the timeless, drifting spaces, quixotic twists and unexpectedly warm melodies of that record proved. And the new music which is now emerging from the tangled cables, rewritten Minidiscs and recycled Jiffy bags that make up the fabric of Matt and John's compositional process is startling in its beauty and resplendent in its freshness.
"The Man Who Ate The Man", as the new album has been christened, sees Magnétophone opening their music up to new voices - and this limited edition 12" only release offers a taste of the results. "Kel's Vintage Thought" is a fizzing, euphoric juggernaut, recorded in Birmingham, Taunton and Dayton, Ohio - where Kim and Kelley Deal added the finishing touches. "No Fun Without You (Hello John)" follows, all plangent, hovering tones and opiated low-end, and leading perfectly into the fractured folk song that concludes the A side. The vocal part on "...And May Your Last Words..." was contributed by HMS Ginafore of the Fence collective - this brief fragment offers a melancholy glimpse of a song that will appear in a different, fuller guise on the album. The package is completed - and the transatlantic connection sustained - by a four-to-the-floor dancefloor mix of "Kel's Vintage Thought" which comes courtesy of Outhud, members of whom also play with !!! and LCD Soundsystem.
"Kel's Vintage Thought" is available now. It comes as a limited edition, white vinyl 12" in a specially designed, embossed sleeve. Alternatively, you can buy it as a digital download - it's available in both MP3 and high-quality, iPod-compatible MP4 - by clicking here.