Cinematic doom-and-gloom indie pop from the Labrador band The Mary Onettes, "Puzzles" is not-shockingly one of our favorite songs of the year. Harking instantly back to the best of New Romanticism and early-80s alternative (UK and US-based), there are guitars,...
Swedish four-piece The Mary Onettes have confirmed details of their second studio length album, following on from their rather fantastic 2007 self-titled debut. Due November 3rd, the new record is titled Islands and that picture just above is it's official artwork. Confirmed tracks for the record include their first single Dare as well as Cry For Love and The Disappearance Of My Youth.
We all believe things come and go in cycles and if anyone is complaining about The Mary Onettes sounding too 80s, they shoud really search their souls.Swedes have a knack of tugging at our heart strings in recent years and its no different this time with The Mary Onettes. Being under Labrador Records mean their [...]
I've been scarce again, but work has been really kicking my tail, so that's my excuse. I mean, honestly, why on earth would FOUR companies schedule IT security audits for the same time, when I'm the only one to respond? That's sick and wrong.You know, it has been _weeks_ since I've crowed about any of the bands from Sweden's Labrador Records, which is inexcusable on my part. As a first step in ...
*Make Me Last*Ever since I discovered the Radio Dept. I've been madly in love with the output from the Swedish label Labrador Records. I'm utterly convinced that they might have the tightest quality control going. Then again, they are a Swedish label, and as we've discussed before, Sweden doesn't product junk, no matter what genre you prefer.While figuring what to do with my paltry 30 downloads...
The first and only review I read on this band informed me that if I was aware of a band called Echo & the Bunnymen then I had no need to buy this album by "the Mary Onettes" because they were essentially a copycat and Echo did it better anyway. So I said "Wow, alright." then a few weeks later I listened to "a post by Dale":http://mog.com/Dale/blog_post/75263 that changed my mind, completely. Th...
Swedish four-piece The Mary Onettes have confirmed details of their second studio length album, following on from their rather fantastic 2007 self-titled debut. Due November 3rd, the new record is titled Islands and that picture just above is it's official artwork. Confirmed tracks for the record include their first single Dare as well as Cry For Love and The Disappearance Of My Youth.
Cinematic doom-and-gloom indie pop from the Labrador band The Mary Onettes, "Puzzles" is not-shockingly one of our favorite songs of the year. Harking instantly back to the best of New Romanticism and early-80s alternative (UK and US-based), there are guitars,...