Movietone Movietone SKU: WOE007LP Barcode: 5024545982114 23.00 £23.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: World Of Echo Released Date: 8th March 2024 Buying Format: 2LP Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info World Of Echo are proud to announce the long-awaited reissue, on 17th February, of the self-titled debut album by Bristol’s Movietone. Originally released in 1995 by Planet Records and reissued on CD in 2003 by The Pastels’ Geographic Music imprint, this is the first time Movietone has been reissued on vinyl. An expanded double-LP edition, it includes the extra tracks from the 2003 CD (their first two singles, and an unreleased demo of “Chance Is Her Opera”), and adds three more unearthed gems: demos of “Alkaline Eye” and “She Smiled Mandarine Like”, and an early take of “Late July”, recorded in a garden by Dave Pearce (Flying Saucer Attack) in 1993. Taken together, this is the definitive collection of music from the first phase of one of Bristol’s most remarkable groups. Movietone was the cumulation of a series of events, explorations, and discoveries, starting at secondary school – the group’s core membership of Kate Wright, Rachel Brook, Matt Elliott and Matt Jones met at Cotham School in Bristol. As for many other groups, their early years were all about experimenting, and finding ways to ‘make do’, a DIY sensibility that would inform Movietone through their decade-long lifespan. From formative rehearsals in a shed in the garden of Brook’s family home, to recording early material to four-track in Redland Library, and on into the Whitehouse and Mr Grin’s studio sessions for their debut album, Movietone’s music fell together in a creatively unpredictable, yet conceptually rigorous manner. By the time they released Movietone, they’d found a home with Bristol’s Planet, run by author Richard King and James Webster, who had both released their first two singles, “She Smiled Mandarine Like” and “Mono Valley”. There was other music happening around them in Bristol, too, from the Jones brothers’ avant-rock outfit Crescent (who were Movietone’s closest conspirators), through Elliott’s jungle/electronica project Third Eye Foundation, and Brook and Elliott’s membership of Flying Saucer Attack. A closely knit community, Movietone are the centre of this nestling architecture of groups. The vision in the music, mostly, belongs to Wright, but Movietone ran in democratic creative consort. Listening back to Movietone, you can hear this democracy in action through the wildness of the music, which is balanced by the poetics of Wright’s lyrics and melodies. Full of half-captured memories and entangled abstractions, there’s an elliptical, ruminative quality to much of the writing here that shows the deep influence of the Beat Generation writers, along with a twilight environment captured in the songs that’s pure third-album Velvets, Galaxie 500, early Tindersticks, Codeine. Unpredictable interventions – the crashing glass in “Mono Valley”, the sudden explosions of “Orange Zero” – point towards the noise blowouts of My Bloody Valentine, the unpredictability of Sonic Youth; Wright’s understated vocal cadence suggest a deep, embodied understanding of John Cage’s Indeterminacy. Movietone would go on to make three fantastic albums for Domino – Night & Day (1997), The Blossom Filled Streets (2000) and The Sand & The Stars (2003) – and their Peel Sessions were released earlier this year on Textile. Still held in high regard by artists like Steven R. Smith, and The Pastels, whose Stephen McRobbie once described them as “one of the great unknown English groups,” it’s an absolute thrill to listen to Movietone anew – still inspired, still seductive, still magic, still mysterious. Artist Movietone Genre Rock And Pop Label World Of Echo Buying Options 2LP Format 2LP Condition New Country UK Track Listings Chance Is Her Opera Heatwave Pavement Green Ray Orange Zero Late July Darkness-Blue Glow Mono Valley Coastal Lagoon Alkaline Eye 3AM Walking Smoking Talking Three Fires She Smiled Mandarine Like Under the 3000 Foot Red Ceiling Orange Zero (single) Chance is her opera (demo) Late July (demo) Alkaline Eyed (demo) She Smiled Mandarine Like (demo) Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Movietone and more from Rock And Pop View Product Quick View Movietone Peel Sessions Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Textile Records | 1LP, Includes CD Released 28th January 2022 £21.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Movietone Peel Sessions £21.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Textile Records SKU: TLP30 Formats: 1LP, Includes CD Released Date: 28th January 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Bjork Vulnicura Live Rock And Pop | One Little Independent | 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released 15th July 2016 £22.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Bjork Vulnicura Live £22.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: One Little Independent SKU: TPLP1328 Formats: 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 15th July 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Third Eye Blind A Collection Rock And Pop | Warner Music | 180g, 2LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 15th July 2022 £28.00 - £33.00 Select options Third Eye Blind A Collection £28.00 - £33.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Warner Music Formats: 180g, 2LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 15th July 2022 Read More Select options View Product Quick View Dream Wife Dream Wife Rock And Pop | Lucky Number | 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released 26th January 2018 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Dream Wife Dream Wife £19.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Lucky Number SKU: LUCKY112LP Formats: 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 26th January 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Joni Mitchell The Hissing of Summer Lawns Rock And Pop | Warner Music | 180g, 1LP Released 29th September 2023 £36.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Joni Mitchell The Hissing of Summer Lawns £36.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Warner Music SKU: 0603497841349 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 29th September 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Thermals, The Fuckin A Rock And Pop | Sub Pop | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Includes Download Code Released 22nd March 2013 £14.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Thermals, The Fuckin A £14.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Sub Pop SKU: SP645 Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Includes Download Code Released Date: 22nd March 2013 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Speedy Ortiz Major Arcana Rock And Pop | Carpark Records | 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released 18th December 2013 £16.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Speedy Ortiz Major Arcana £16.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Carpark Records SKU: CAK87LP Formats: 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 18th December 2013 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Interpol Marauder (Indies Only) Rock And Pop | Matador | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Includes Download Code Released 21st August 2018 £16.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Interpol Marauder (Indies Only) £16.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Matador SKU: OLE11240 Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Includes Download Code Released Date: 21st August 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Wild Beasts Last Night All My Dreams Came True (Indies Only) Rock And Pop | Domino | 2LP, Coloured Vinyl, Includes Download Code Released 13th February 2018 £25.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Wild Beasts Last Night All My Dreams Came True (Indies Only) £25.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Domino SKU: DOMDOC002LPX Formats: 2LP, Coloured Vinyl, Includes Download Code Released Date: 13th February 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Depeche Mode Exciter Rock And Pop | Rhino | 180g, 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released 9th June 2014 £29.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Depeche Mode Exciter £29.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Rhino SKU: RHI234300R Formats: 180g, 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 9th June 2014 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Yardbirds, The Heart Full Of Soul – The Best Of Rock And Pop | Demon | 1LP Released 12th August 2022 £22.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Yardbirds, The Heart Full Of Soul – The Best Of £22.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Demon SKU: DEMREC1016 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 12th August 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders See more in Rock And Pop Start again
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