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We are extremely excited to welcome The Wedding Present to Lost And Lonesome! Their much-anticipated eighth studio album Valentina will be released in Australia and New Zealand on Friday, March 23.
The new album was recorded by the group in France, California and Brighton, UK during 2011 and mixed by Andrew Scheps [whose past credits include Metallica, Iggy Pop and Johnny Cash]. Propelled by founding member David Gedge’s perpetual broken heart and incisively brazen lyrics, Valentina turns a fresh page on the band’s noisy guitar pop tradition — one that has inspired several generations of canny pop fans and indie rock bands alike since their 1985 inception.
To celebrate the release of Valentina, The Wedding Present will be making their first ever visit to Australia this April, playing shows in Adelaide, Sydney and Melbourne. As extra icing for fans, the band will be performing their classic album Seamonsters live, in its entirety. The Wedding Present recorded Seamonsters with Steve Albini in 1991.
THE WEDDING PRESENT AUSTRALIAN TOUR DATES
Thursday, April 12 — ADELAIDE — Jive Bar Buy tickets!
Friday, April 13 — SYDNEY — Annandale Hotel Buy tickets!
Saturday, April 14 — MELBOURNE — Northcote Social Club Buy Tickets!
We're delighted to announce the highly anticipated third album from Melbourne's experimental-classic-pop master-sculptor Francis Plagne. On his latest campaign, entitled Tenth Volume of Maps, Plagne and his band create a sonically rich palette with a more focused live-in-the-studio feel than his earlier work, which relied heavily on field recordings and tape splicing. Re-pledging his commitment to the song form with his snappiest album to date, Tenth Volume of Maps reasserts Plagne's fascination with the interplay of melody and rhythm, while also allowing the songs to unfold, develop, and mutate along unpredictable trajectories.
Francis Plagne — Spun Six Circles by Lost And Lonesome
Tenth Volume of Maps is available in shops on October 7 through Fuse in Australia, Darla in the US and Cargo in the UK.
*** SPECIAL — FREE POSTAGE WORLDWIDE ON ANY ORDER CONTAINING THIS RELEASE ***
Stories with the Endings Changed is the brand-new album from Melbourne (via-Ballarat) combo Bart & Friends and is available now on CD and tantalising 10" vinyl!
A veteran of early-90s bands like The Cat's Miaow, Hydroplane and The Shapiros, Bart Cummings is a hero to us here at Lost And Lonesome and living proof that heartfelt indiepop is alive and well and as charmingly bashful as ever. After a decade's absence from the music scene, Bart & Friends resurfaced with last year's brilliant Make You Blush mini-album which featured a new bunch of Friends and shared-vocals with Bart's former Shapiros bandmate Pam Berry (also of Black Tambourine, The Pines, etc, etc).
This time around for Stories With the Endings Changed Bart summoned Scott Stevens (Summer Cats, Earthmen) to lend a hand with vocals while the band again consists of Mark Monnone and Louis Richter (Lucksmiths, Mid-State Orange) with the addition of Jeremy Cole (Zebras) on drums and Irene Drossinos (Summer Cats) on organ and backing vocals. Working at Bart's typical no-nonsense pace with producer James Dean, the result is nine concise songs of undiluted melodicism and sterling straight-through-the-heart pop hooks.
Bart & Friends - Who Am I to Say No by Lost And Lonesome
So enamored are we with this album, that we decided it required a vinyl release — and on cute/sexy 10" no less! Both CD and 10" formats are available in good record stores Australia-wide. To order the 10" (plus free download code), please make a note of it on your Paypal transaction or email us at info@lostandlonesome.com.au ...otherwise you will receive the album on CD (also pretty awesome). And yeah, FREE POSTAGE WORLDWIDE!
If you happen to live in Europe, this special offer extends to orders from our ace mailorder buddies at Vollwert (Germany), Pebble (UK), Fraction (Sweden) and Hands & Arms (France). American friends, please check it all out at Darla Records.
