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 Graham's picks View Product Quick View Prince 1999 Rock And Pop | Rhino | 10LP, 180g, 2CD, 4LP, 5CD + DVD, Coloured Vinyl, DVD Released 29th November 2019 £32.00 - £186.00 Select options Prince 1999 £32.00 - £186.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Rhino Formats: 10LP, 180g, 2CD, 4LP, 5CD + DVD, Coloured Vinyl, DVD Released Date: 29th November 2019 Read More Select options View Product Quick View S*M*A*S*H Spring 1994 Rock And Pop | Demon | 1LP Released 21st October 2022 £22.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders S*M*A*S*H Spring 1994 £22.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Demon SKU: DEMREC1027 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 21st October 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Six By Seven Love And Peace And Sympathy Rock And Pop | Borrowed Tune Motion Pictures | 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 8th July 2013 £17.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Six By Seven Love And Peace And Sympathy £17.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Borrowed Tune Motion Pictures SKU: BTMP001LP Formats: 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 8th July 2013 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Mando Diao Bring Em In Rock And Pop | Music On Vinyl | 180g, 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Gatefold Sleeve Released 11th September 2020 £21.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Mando Diao Bring Em In £21.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Music On Vinyl SKU: MOVLP2647 Formats: 180g, 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 11th September 2020 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Brix & The Extricated Breaking State Rock And Pop | Grit Over Glamour | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 9th August 2019 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Brix & The Extricated Breaking State £20.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Grit Over Glamour SKU: GOG002 Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 9th August 2019 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Califone Roots & Crowns Rock And Pop | Thrill Jockey | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Includes Download Code Released 22nd July 2022 £31.00 - £32.00 Select options Califone Roots & Crowns £31.00 - £32.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Thrill Jockey Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Includes Download Code Released Date: 22nd July 2022 Read More Select options View Product Quick View Yello The Eye Rock And Pop | Polydor | 180g, 2LP Released 9th July 2021 £33.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Yello The Eye £33.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Polydor SKU: 3571949 Formats: 180g, 2LP Released Date: 9th July 2021 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Jhene Aiko Sail Out Rock And Pop | Virgin Records | 1LP, Picture Disc Released 8th December 2017 £30.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Jhene Aiko Sail Out £30.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Virgin Records SKU: 5793391 Formats: 1LP, Picture Disc Released Date: 8th December 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Polica United Crushers (Indies Only) Rock And Pop | Memphis Industries | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Includes Download Code Released 1st March 2016 £17.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Polica United Crushers (Indies Only) £17.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Memphis Industries SKU: MI0384LPX Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Includes Download Code Released Date: 1st March 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Animal Collective Painting With Rock And Pop | Domino | 180g, 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 19th February 2016 £18.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Animal Collective Painting With £18.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Domino SKU: WIGLP362 Formats: 180g, 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 19th February 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders See more in Rock And Pop Start again
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