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Hear the sound of festive coke adverts, time to start gritting the roads - you know its this time of year because The Bordellos are releasing a free EP no bugger will listen to. To a deafening silence, a mini album entitled, originally Bandcamp Mini Album was released online earlier in the year - no one wanted to pay anything. They didn't even want to stream-rip the preview tracks we put up. In this climate I'm not particularly sure I blame them - who wants to take a chance with money these days (even though it was priced less than a ticket from Dalehead Place to Town Centre, ridiculously - bus ticket inflation is a particular bugbear of mine).
Neverless we''ve put together a mini album for you and here's a track by track runthrough by way of sleevenotes for this free download only collection:
1. Dark Folk Song
Brian Bordello takes this one on his own, singing moodily backed only by his acoustic guitar. The idea was to have something of the Nick Cave about it - not in sound, obviously, but definitely in mood.
2. Wish List
Cannibalised and reconstituted from a never recorded Bordellos song dating back about 5 years or so, with new bits added on the end - by new bits, thats about 3 minutes of the song. Something of an epic for that - maudlin third album Velvets acoustic pop with some ace harmonica and a thrumming bassline. To me it sums up what we're about completely. We're underrated and underpaid, still we refuse to change our ways.
3. Vicious Circle
This one is me on my own so it'd be in bad taste to say anything too good about it, just me singing over bass with a bit of guitar here and there. This one is available in lo-fi video somewhere in the internet in a full band guise sang by Brian Bordello, nothing like the haunted piece of misery it became.
4. Lennon Never Died
He did you know. This is another oldish one, originally featured on a Huckleberry EP no bugger downloaded even though it was free, a few CD-Rs got sent out too. Seeing a pattern - the buggers won't even take it when we give it away, and they're often the same to bemoan bands being safe and unchallenging. Not entirely sure what this song is actually about, you'd have to ask him - my dad that is, not John Lennon.
5. Peach
Jolts some life back into the old dog - the EP that is, not John Lennon. Another relatively upbeat one with surf guitar, dirty bass and snarled lyrics. It took more takes to do Ant's backing vocals than anything else, ridiculously.
6. Tom Waits Blues
Sang this song, which he wrote in 5 minutes on the bus, the day the excellent Bad As Me came out. Nothing Waits like about this at all, sadly, but great harmonica from Ant.
7. Primal Whisper
Originally a track hidden in the bundle when you download Bandcamp Mini Album. As no bugger did, it fits the mood of the album so we let it stay.
8. Holy Love
Apparently it was meant to be called Unholy Love but I mistitled it. How I'm supposed to know it's called Unholy Love when he sings Holy Love I've no idea, but this is one of my two favourites along with Wish List. It's very short and prompted Ant to say it wasn't enough like Noel Gallagher, he'd have extended it, put a solo in and another chorus. On the whole we don't do solos, though. Mini-zither featured on the last two tracks, a gift my dad got off my mum from a toy catalogue still being used now.
So there you have it - 8 apparently "lo-fi" tracks recorded in Ant's living room as per usual. Not sure it'll take off, mind, these are human performances with fluffed notes, background noise, instruments falling over and the sound of people with emotions making it. It is not buffed to a landfill indie sheen, and there was no use of Autotune at all. If you're reading this blog it's probably because A) you were directed to it by The Bordellos Facebook or Myspace, B) you like the same music as me or C) both - so I'm preaching to the converted a bit here. Just sick and tired of the celebration of mediocrity that passes for bold new art at the moment. Don't get me wrong, this is no touchstone and it won't change the world but its a set of free songs by music fans for music fans - check the cover where we spell it out, a collection of Brian Bordellos albums scattered on the floor with the stupidly cute cat Oscar stood on them. Give it a chance, you may like it - and if you like this, you'll love what we've got around the corner.
Hear the sound of festive coke adverts, time to start gritting the roads - you know its this time of year because The Bordellos are releasing a free EP no bugger will listen to. To a deafening silence, a mini album entitled, originally Bandcamp Mini Album was released online earlier in the year - no one wanted to pay anything. They didn't even want to stream-rip the preview tracks we put up. In this climate I'm not particularly sure I blame them - who wants to take a chance with money these days (even though it was priced less than a ticket from Dalehead Place to Town Centre, ridiculously - bus ticket inflation is a particular bugbear of mine).
Neverless we''ve put together a mini album for you and here's a track by track runthrough by way of sleevenotes for this free download only collection:
1. Dark Folk Song
Brian Bordello takes this one on his own, singing moodily backed only by his acoustic guitar. The idea was to have something of the Nick Cave about it - not in sound, obviously, but definitely in mood.
2. Wish List
Cannibalised and reconstituted from a never recorded Bordellos song dating back about 5 years or so, with new bits added on the end - by new bits, thats about 3 minutes of the song. Something of an epic for that - maudlin third album Velvets acoustic pop with some ace harmonica and a thrumming bassline. To me it sums up what we're about completely. We're underrated and underpaid, still we refuse to change our ways.
3. Vicious Circle
This one is me on my own so it'd be in bad taste to say anything too good about it, just me singing over bass with a bit of guitar here and there. This one is available in lo-fi video somewhere in the internet in a full band guise sang by Brian Bordello, nothing like the haunted piece of misery it became.
4. Lennon Never Died
He did you know. This is another oldish one, originally featured on a Huckleberry EP no bugger downloaded even though it was free, a few CD-Rs got sent out too. Seeing a pattern - the buggers won't even take it when we give it away, and they're often the same to bemoan bands being safe and unchallenging. Not entirely sure what this song is actually about, you'd have to ask him - my dad that is, not John Lennon.
5. Peach
Jolts some life back into the old dog - the EP that is, not John Lennon. Another relatively upbeat one with surf guitar, dirty bass and snarled lyrics. It took more takes to do Ant's backing vocals than anything else, ridiculously.
6. Tom Waits Blues
Sang this song, which he wrote in 5 minutes on the bus, the day the excellent Bad As Me came out. Nothing Waits like about this at all, sadly, but great harmonica from Ant.
7. Primal Whisper
Originally a track hidden in the bundle when you download Bandcamp Mini Album. As no bugger did, it fits the mood of the album so we let it stay.
8. Holy Love
Apparently it was meant to be called Unholy Love but I mistitled it. How I'm supposed to know it's called Unholy Love when he sings Holy Love I've no idea, but this is one of my two favourites along with Wish List. It's very short and prompted Ant to say it wasn't enough like Noel Gallagher, he'd have extended it, put a solo in and another chorus. On the whole we don't do solos, though. Mini-zither featured on the last two tracks, a gift my dad got off my mum from a toy catalogue still being used now.
So there you have it - 8 apparently "lo-fi" tracks recorded in Ant's living room as per usual. Not sure it'll take off, mind, these are human performances with fluffed notes, background noise, instruments falling over and the sound of people with emotions making it. It is not buffed to a landfill indie sheen, and there was no use of Autotune at all. If you're reading this blog it's probably because A) you were directed to it by The Bordellos Facebook or Myspace, B) you like the same music as me or C) both - so I'm preaching to the converted a bit here. Just sick and tired of the celebration of mediocrity that passes for bold new art at the moment. Don't get me wrong, this is no touchstone and it won't change the world but its a set of free songs by music fans for music fans - check the cover where we spell it out, a collection of Brian Bordellos albums scattered on the floor with the stupidly cute cat Oscar stood on them. Give it a chance, you may like it - and if you like this, you'll love what we've got around the corner.
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