ARTiST: YOURCODENAMEIS:MILO
TiTLE: Print Is Dead Vol. 1
LABEL: V2 Records
GENRE: Alternative
TiME: 45:44 min
SiZE: 59,2 MB
BiTRATE: VBRkbps
RiP DATE: Oct-20-2006
RELEASE DATE: Nov-06-2006
WEBSiTE: http://www.myspace.com/yourcodenameismilo
Track List:
01. Greetings 03:20
02. Wait A Minute 03:47
03. The Trapeze Artist 03:29
04. I Remember The Summer Isles 06:18
05. Roots Branches 03:14
06. We Hope You Are What You Think You Are 05:10
07. Deborah Bow 01:46
08. Captain Of Lies 02:44
09. Ordinary Day 03:37
10. Tiny Vessels 04:31
11. Noah 07:48
Release Notes:
Inspired by the camaraderie of the DIY punk,
post-punk and hardcore scenes that have gone before,
the 'guest starring' culture of hip hop and musical
cross-referencing spirit of the 70's (when the likes
of Fripp, Eno, Pop, Bowie et al would crop up on
each others records), Print Is Dead Vol 1 is a
collaborative and conceptual work featuring
contributions from members of some of the finest
young guitar bands around.
At the centre of it are acclaimed forward-thinking
Newcastle five-piece YOURCODENAMEIS:MILO, who
conceived the album in the wake of their acclaimed
major label releases All Roads To Fault (mini album
2004) and Ignoto (debut album, 2005) and executed it
with precision. The roll-call of guest is a Whos Who
of all that is right with the contemporary British
musical underbelly from fellow reigning Geordie
triumvirate of Futureheads, Maximo Park and Field
Music, through million-sellers Bloc Party and Top 5
residents The Automatic, to emerging solo talents
such as Tom Vek, Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly. and
Lethal Bizzle.
We were sitting around one night and thought, we
have this great space for making music lets use it
says frontman Paul Mullen. Within the band our
influences are ridiculously wide- from Regina
Spektor to Mastodon - so we sent out an e-mail to
some bands we'd made friends with on our travels
inviting them to take part and it just snowballed
from there. I think even Brian May and Brian Wilson
were approached.
The concept was a relatively simple one:
YOURCODENAMEIS:MILO invited their favourite kindred
spirits in to write and record a song in a single
day in the bands studio-cum-space. The end result
after each session being what you hear on the album.
Wed pick our guests up at the train station and go
back to the studio and form a band, says Mullen, of
the recording process. Wed play around with ideas
off the top of our head, then have some food and
booze and discuss it. Then in the evening wed record
and mix, limiting ourselves to do each song in about
fourteen hours. That way you avoid being too
precious about the fine details and it becomes a
true collaborative effort.
It makes for a diverse, fluid and colourful
collection, thats unashamedly and wilfully difficult
to pigeon-hole. Though painting from the same
palette, the artists produce greatly differing
results. On the one hand Futureheads Ross Millard
offers the stop-start, folk-infused post-punk shanty
I Remember The Summer Isles, on the other Lethal
Bizzle brings the sound of LDN grime into play with
a meditation on happy slapping, knife-happy culture
on Ordinary Day (sample line: Yo Blair, yo Cameron,
you dougnuts / Wake up and open your eyes, man). And
somewhere in between lie the minimalist, rhythmic
kabuki-esque instrumental offered by Maximo Parks
Lukas Wooller, or the almost dub-like Tiny Vessels
of Get Capes Sam Duckworth.
As a snapshot of a time (2005/2006) and a
non-geographical specific place (inventive UK
alt-rock), few records could better Print Is Dead
Vol. 1 in terms of broadness and creativity.
Print Is Dead was recorded in between sessions for
YOURCODENAMEIS:MILO'S forthcoming second album and a
recent memorable trip to play shows in New Delhi,
India. Everything was written, recorded and mixed at
their own studio under the arches of Byker Bridge
and affectionately-named Like A Cat, Like A Fox
(after the original title for their debut album).
The studio is part of the Ouseburn gorge which runs
down to the River Tyne in the East End of Newcastle,
a thriving musical area thats also home to popular
venue/rehearsal space The Cluny, galleries, studios
and a number of other rising local bands such as
Kubichek!, The Motorettes, The Sound Explosion etc.
Slowly but surely then YOURCODENAMEIS:MILO are
crystallising a scene based more around a mentality
of spontaneity and creativity than a locale or
fashion. Here is the first instalment. They will
release their second full studio album early 2007,
have set up their own General Recordings imprint
through V2 and already begun work on more recordings
for Print Is Dead Volume II, aswell as a number of
Eno-inspired ambient works which may one day be
released.
YOURCODENAMEIS:MILO are: Paul Mullen
(vocals/guitar), Justin Lockey (guitar), Adam Hiles
(guitar), Ross Harley (bass) and Shaun Abbott
(drums).