ARTIST: Miracle Fortress
TITLE: Five Roses
LABEL: Secret City Records
GENRE: Indie
BITRATE: 213kbps avg
PLAYTIME: 0h 43m total
RELEASE DATE: 2007-05-22
RIP DATE: 2007-05-09
Track List
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1. Whirrs 2:30
2. Have You Seen In Your Dreams 3:01
3. Next Train 4:16
4. Maybe Lately 3:13
5. Beach Baby 3:33
6. Hold Your Secrets To Your Heart 3:35
7. Little Trees 4:24
8. Poetaster 3:55
9. Five Roses 3:20
10. Blasphemy 4:51
11. Fortune 3:03
12. This Thing About You 3:52
Release Notes:
Miracle Fortress is the brainchild of Graham Van Pelt, a Montreal-based
multi-instrumentalist and vocalist who in this incarnation builds wall of sound
pop songs in the tradition of Brian Wilson and Brian Eno. Originally from
Stratford, Ontario, Graham is also a member of MontrealÆs Think About Life
(Alien8 Recordings). He began to record as Miracle Fortress after co-founding
the multi-functional art space/venue/studio space Friendship Cove with local
artist Jack Dylan in MontrealÆs Griffintown in late 2005. A 5 song EP, Watery
Grave, led to a collaboration with Secret City Records in 2006 to record a full
length LP. Graham spent a larger part of the year building into the Friendship
Cove studio and recording the Miracle Fortress debut, taking time out to perform
as a solo act opening for bands like Love is All, Vic Chestnut, and locals
Sunset Rubdown and Islands. Five Roses was completed in January 2007 and is an
ambitious and engaging record of pop songs that echo My Bloody Valentine and the
Beach Boys alike. It will be released in May 2007. Sunset RubdownÆs Jordan
Robson-Cramer (who also plays on the B-side to the first single), TelefaunaÆs
Adam Waito, and SS Cardiacs' Jessie Stein have recently joined Graham in the
live lineup of Miracle Fortress.