technically a Spacemen 3 cover



this is nice stuff!

What else? Ah, one thing that's really exciting me is this girl I signed a couple of years ago, very much... not on a whim exactly, but she was instantly exciting to me... She'd sent me these bedroom demos, and at the time her name was just Maria – Maria Linden, she's from Sweden – and when I heard these demos which she'd just recorded on her GarageBand thing, they were really... well, there's lots of beats and pedals and distortions and reverbs and echoes, and this sort of shoegazey vocal thing going on in the background. Now I haven't really put out a lot of things that were influenced by Cocteau Twins, or by things I was doing myself 20-odd years ago - I've steered clear of it – but then I heard something in her music, and she was only 20. That took me right back there, but somehow in a really new way.

Anyway, we started helping her develop her music, sent her off to do some recording – and she came back and she'd done some great recordings, but then anyone we put her in the studio with to mix it just mixed it like a rock record. It just sounded rubbish, she hated it and I hated it, and we knew that it wasn't right but we knew the raw material that she'd recorded was great. The bedroom stuff she'd done was way, way better but it couldn't be released like that because it was so badly recorded.

We were really stuck for what to do – we tried about six different mixes and they were all wrong, and it was starting to turn into a bit of a nightmare, she was getting so frustrated and I was feeling her pain but we really didn't know what to do. She had it all in her head, but she couldn't really articulate it for an engineer, or physically do it herself in a bigger studio. But then eventually, thank God, she found this guy who'd mixed [Gothenburg psychedelic rock band] Soundtrack of Our Lives, and he had this amazing analogue studio in Stockholm. They just met through a friend of a friend and he said, “Let me try mixing one of your songs,” and within half an hour, as these things sometimes happen, he just totally nailed it, knew exactly what she wanted.

So I got these through, they sent me the mixes of seven or eight different songs, and I just did nothing else for three days but listen to them on a loop, I was totally blown away by them. And I sent them to Tom from Chemical Brothers – I know him a bit because my girlfriend Stephanie sings on a Chemical Brothers record – because I just thought there's something in these songs that'd appeal to the Chemical Brothers, I thought he might like them. And he wrote to me back saying, “My God, these tracks are amazing, can I mix them?” So I was like, [sharp inhalation, chuckles nervously] “Well, you could, but I couldn't afford it,” and he said, “Look, let's worry about that later, I'll do them for free and if you want to use them we can work out how much it'll be later on down the line.” I just went, “Fuck, that's awesome, well, thank you very much!” – and he's doing those right now. The album's actually mixed by this other fellow, but the idea of having three songs mixed by the Chemical Brothers is quite mouthwatering because I am a big, big fan of theirs too.

So we're just doing vinyl to start with, three 12-inch vinyls, one a month for the first three months of the year. Vaughan [Oliver, who designed the Cocteau Twins' records] from 23 Envelope is going to do the sleeves, which is exciting because it's the first time I've worked with him in, what, 20 years – but he just heard it and went crazy about it, him and Maria seemed to get on super-well, so that's going really well. Super-exciting times.

The recordings of I Break Horses debut album is finally over.

First single will be released during this spring on uk label bella union.

Please visit our myspace in the meantime

Soon you will be able to visit our blog to read about stuff such as gigs, tours and other anecdotes that will be made up

"Smog" isn't an I Break Horses song, "I Break Horses" is a Smog song. She named the band after it.

A new mix of Hearts just premiered yesterday on The Line Of Best Fit's podcast:

@ 17:34
http://soundcloud.com/tlobf/the-line-of-best-fit-podcast

No word about a single yet, but according to the podcast, their 9 track debut album Hearts will be out "later this year".

original mix: Hype Machine | Direct Link.

@here_comes_B album should be out this summer. THANKS, i'm v happy about the excitement! x