View basket “1700” has been added to your basket. These Days M + A SKU: MONO79VNL Barcode: 5065002002587 11.00 £11.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Monotreme Records Released Date: 18th August 2014 Buying Format: 180g 1LP Coloured Vinyl Includes Download Code Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info After their hugely successful Glastonbury main stage show as winners of the Glastonbury Emerging Talent Competition both albums are now at mid price. The playful, sophisticated dance pop of Italian duo M+A’s second album These Days is so seamlessly hooky and compelling that upon listening it’s hard to imagine a world without it. It’s a perfect distillation of a yearning for endless summer. M+A’s 2011 debut Things.Yes was an inventive and spirited exploration of an organic, heartfelt variety of genre-hopping electro-acoustic pop that promised many good things to come from the young artists. But, perhaps nothing could’ve prepared us for These Days. M+A is Michele Ducci, 22, (vocals, instruments) and Alessandro Degli Angioli, 25, (instruments) of Forli, Italy. Much like their French neighbors to the northwest, M+A explore dance music as a medium for emotional expression much more than a conduit for cold, cut ‘n’ pasted samples and beats. M+A’s euphoric electronic pop is clever, but not for cleverness’ sake. Ducci’s earnest and delicate vocals, which hearken to the warmth of Phoenix’s Thomas Mars, pair the bittersweet edge found in the best classic pop songs with the buttoned-up retro dance grooves of Beck and Daft Punk’s Random Access Memories. These Days is the result of meticulous collaboration begun in spring 2012, often from great distances with both members frequently on the go. “In this album we tried to experiment mainly with the song form, freeing ourselves of any bias towards any genre,” the pair explain. “We haven’t tried to remain faithful to anything.” Rather than relying on samples, M+A played all of the instruments, apart from the impressive acoustic drumming of Marco Frattini. From the very first seconds of These Days, the album is off and running with lush hooks driven by the propulsive beats, pizzicato strings and syncopated electric piano of dancefloor-filler “When.” The hooks never stop throughout the 11-song, 42-minute album. “B Song” evokes the blue-eyed retro-funk of late 90’s era Beck. “Down The West Side” is a masterful slice of sun-drenched pop perfection sure to soundtrack many a summer BBQ or banish those rainy day blues, while songs like “New York There”, “Game”, “Practical Friday” and “Midnight Radio” easily pair up alongside recent 80s-reminiscent efforts by artists like Daft Punk, The Strokes and Phoenix. With These Days, M+A effectively prove themselves worthy of a place among their more celebrated contemporaries. The album will be available as a deluxe 180-gram vinyl edition (300 copies on white vinyl with colour printed inner sleeve and a free album CD included inside. Artist M + A Genre Rock And Pop Label Monotreme Records Buying Options 180g 1LP Coloured Vinyl Includes Download Code Format 180g , 1LP , Coloured Vinyl , Includes Download Code Condition New Country United Kingdom Track Listings 1. When 2. B song 3. Down the west side 4. Freetown solo 5. Game 6. New York there 7. L.E.M.O.N. 8. Practical Friday 9. De-light 10. Slow 11. 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