De Rosa - Mend
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Artist: De RosaEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2006-09-05
Music Label: Chemikal Underground
Soundtracks:
- Father's Eyes
- Camera
- New Lanark
- All Saints Day
- Hopes & Little jokes
- Cathkin Braes
- On Recollection
- Evelyn
- Hattonrigg Pit Disaster
- Headfirst
- The Engineer
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Music Review: rare find
Rating: 5 Stars
i found this band on pandora internet radio a few months ago and fell in love with them right away. Mend is a great album start to finish. Their sound is to die for. songs like Evelyn and 'Hopes and Little Jokes' make this album a must!
Description of Mend
De Rosa are Martin John Henry (vocals/guitar); James Woodside (bass); Neil Woodside (drums) and Ross Stewart (guitar/keyboards/violin) and they formed in the early 2000's at Glasgow's School Of Art. They signed in 2004 to Lanarkshire label Gargleblast (run by Andy Miller, producer of Sons And Daughters, My Latest Novel, Scout Niblett and The Delgados amongst others) and it was following the release of their debut single ('Camera'/'All Saints Day') in July '04 that heads first started to turn. Encouraged by the support of John Peel, Steve Lamacq and the like, De Rosa locked themselves away in Hamilton's Chem19 Studios with Andy Miller for the best part of 2005 - the use of Chemikal Underground's studio was to prove auspicious when, upon the album's completion, the Glasgow label rushed to license Mend. The album itself is an astonishingly assured debut that flits effortlessly between thundering feedback, abstract rhythmic phrasings and the straightforward approach of traditional folk, all shot through with a lyrical narrative that is both honest and inventive. "I try to write with honesty, and for me that's almost impossible to do without talking about your own physical landscape. 'Cathkin Braes' is a bit of commentary about Glasgow, based around the view from the hills south of the city. I think some kind of truth is really important in what we do, whether it's in the lyrics or in the way we play," Henry continues, "I'm always blown away by tight, visceral sounding bands like Joy Division and Gang Of Four," and indeed the influence of rangy punk and post-punk aggression (Sonic Youth, Stooges, Shellac, Television) infused with a twisted sense of melody and straightforward pop structure (Pixies, Talking Heads, Go-Betweens, Red House Painters) is readily apparent in De Rosa.General CDs
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