Norwich, United Kingdom. Mon 11 April. Cambridge Junction. Cambridge, United Kingdom. Wed 13 April. The Mill, Digbeth. Birmingham, United Kingdom. Thu 14 April. Trinity Centre.
Bristol, United Kingdom. Sat 16 April. O2 Academy Oxford. Oxford, United Kingdom. Sun 17 April. Concorde 2. Brighton, United Kingdom. From follow up Twenty One's dazzling jumble of electro, off kilter indie and suit- jacket-sleeves-rolled-up yacht rock, Serotonin's well-buffed melodies and the dust-stained Americana of 's Radlands, to be a follower of Mystery Jets' music has been to eagerly await the next move of their restlessly curious muse.
On Curve Of The Earth, Mystery Jets have changed tack again, only this time it's been to strip back some of their more shapeshifting tendencies and distil the essence of what makes them such a great band. Arguably their strongest, most personal and most coherent set of tracks to date, it highlights what the kids down the front of their shows shouting "Zoo Time! We're not sort of being Americana or not being this polished pop thing like Serotonin was, and we're not being this yacht rock electro amalgamation of Twenty One: we're just getting to the very core of what our songs are and presenting them in a fitting way and not trying to be something other than what we are.
It's not like we would be out every night, but looking back I think it was a massively risky thing to do. So with this album, we thought, 'Before we actually start recording, let's have everything written,' which I like to call 'woodshedding.
Hunkered down writing and recording for months on end, isolated from external influences. Producing it themselves and unencumbered by any pressure other than to make the best record they could, Harrison, Rees, drummer Kapil Trivedi and latest recruit Jack Flanagan found themselves rediscovering the gang mentality that had bound the band together at the start.
Summertime Den Horse Drawn Cart Zootime Little Bag Of Hair Diamond In The Dark Alas Agnes Sounding like a more carefree version of King Crimson, the band freewheel through genres with joyous abandon, mixing indie and prog with elements of music hall andpop, making for an entertaining and exhilarating listen.
Includes the singles 'Zoo Time' and 'Alas Agnes'. Diamonds In The Dark Inside Four Walls Scarecrows In The Rain Horse-Drawn Cart You Can't Fool Dennis Purple Prose Of Cairo Umbrellahead Already, previous singles have seemed like dispatches from some starry-eyed parallel universe where Syd Barrett never dropped out but played on with Einsturzende Neubauten, where the irresistible pop of Dexy's can happily co-exist with the Krautrock explorations of Can, and where the most forbidding musical forms of the past, like prog rock, are gleefully reinvented in the smash-and-grab spirit of the present.
With "ZooTime", be prepared to have your life forever enriched by a band relentless at breaking boundaries and enlightening one's soul with much of their own. Hideaway Young Love Featuring Laura Marling Half In Love With Elizabeth Flakes Veiled In Grey Two Doors Down MJ Hand Me Down First To Know Apart from the unusual family relationship, the band also stood out for their eclectic blend of modern indie rock and folk, with a pronounced '60s psychedelia influence.
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