| Buy Limbo Live Volume 1 now for £7.99 (excl 1st class postage/packing of 71p) The CD is in the shops from Monday May 4th. |
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Limbo Live Volume One is a who's who of their more regular stars, and
the opening half is a bastion of near brilliance. The charming
harmonies of Zoey Van Goey, a wonderfully acoustic Meursault, and two
epic hits in the form of a bleepy Over The Wall and the aforementioned
FOUND deliver the highlights. An internal commentary of between song
chatter is an amusing touch, and the gig-like energy never falters".
The Daily Record says:
What a brilliant snapshot of Scotland's hottest new musical acts.
Limbo have excelled themselves. The inaugural live CD has 14 of our greatest hopes ... It kicks off with
Zoey Van Goey's menacing lovesong City Is Exploding. Next up is one of
my favourite new bands Found and their electrofunk folk When You Fall.
And still they come. Punch & The Apostles' gypsy ramble Asylum is taut
and lively. Sparrow And The Workshop's Last Chance has Kate Bush's
banshee call while Isosceles, Cancel The Astronauts and Thieves In
Suits all show that Scottish jangular art rock is alive and strumming
furiously. Glaswegian duo Over The Wall's A History of British
Welfarism 1945-1984 is for me the album highlight - a history lesson
you can dance to. Then there's Come On Gang's Irish folk rock take of
The Cranberries - but faster and our old (although they are young)
pals Haight-Ashbury whose blend of hippy rock just gets better and
better. The album ends with the raw Cure sound of Night Noise Team's
Menolick. Limbo - this is a triumph".
Here's the accompanying booklet:
If you order now and it's before 4pm on a weekday, we'll post it out to you today. In the UK, it's pretty likely that you'll have it in your hands tomorrow. We won't hang around in any case.
Since Limbo began, we've recorded hundreds of hours of incredible performances from over 100 bands. We figured that it was about time you got to hear some of the best recordings. Here are the very exciting bands we have on the CD with snippets of the tracks...
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1) City Is Exploding - Zoey Van Goey
The Glasgow-based, internationally sourced, three-piece are ridiculously talented: they swap instruments, play violin and have Kim Moore's stunning vocals. Like the Postal Service with a sense of humour, they cover romance, imminent apocalypse and baked beans, all in the course of one song." - The Skinny (Laura Paterson)
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2) When You Fall - FOUND
FOUND has stumbled upon a winning formula" The Sunday Times
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3) Asylum - Punch & The Apostles
The most exciting and provocative band in Scotland" Rick Fulton (Daily Record)
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4) Pissing On Bonfires / Kissing With Tongues - Meursault
4/5...Pennycook's urgent voice personifies the collision between the Reid brothers (Jesus Mary Chain) and Guy Garvey (Elbow)...the results are compelling" (MOJO)
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5) Last Chance - Sparrow and The Workshop
These folk-rockers, like Fleet Foxes, have a similar modern-band-invokes-ancient-times feel to their music. The Guardian
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6) Get Your Hands Off - Isosceles
A deranged fusion of Bis’ disco-poppery and Josef K’s jittery guitar clunking, debut (double A-side) singles ‘I Go’/‘Get Your Hands Off’ are unadulterated spurts of retroised, rug-cutting brilliance laden with hooks, wonky-tonk synths and gleeful handclaps. Drowned In Sound.
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7) A History of British Welfarism 1945-1984 - Over The Wall
…There are rare occasions when something truly great stops you in your tracks. And Over The Wall have done just that… A superb mix of clashing styles… there’s also an urgency and honesty to their music that’s rare in a band so new." – The Line of Best Fit
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8) Never Grow - A-lix
A-lix [...] create a wave of noise that leaves the audience dancing like puppets on strings. Even those usually opposed to electro-pop will worship at their feet." - Peter McGee, Bluesbunny reviews
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9) Slow Dance At The Disco - Cancel The Astronauts
For fans of Clap Your Hands Say Yeah: this is how you wish they sounded live". The Skinny (****)
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10) Clockwork - Thieves In Suits
...an art rock pace... an arm-windmilling frenetic slice of pop... the Edinburgh trio are already causing a live stir....."
DAILY RECORD review Dec 08
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11) Spinning Room - Come On Gang!
Come On Gang! are just getting super good, super quickly. They swoop and soar and rattle and fizz and it's all so exciting and young and bastard brilliant it's like injecting sherbert and vodka into a vein in your eyeball' showburner.com
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12) Second Time Around - Kid Canaveral
Juicy, chewy pop-kids to savour, proving that life still twitches in this indie guitar-pop business.' (Paul Whitelaw, The Scotsman)
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13) Favourite Song - Haight-Ashbury
the trio showed just why they are one of the city's most promising and original up-and-coming bands". DAILY RECORD (****)
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14) Menolick - Night Noise Team
Interpol's atmospherics swirl around the medicated haze of Galaxie 500...dark Arab Strap-style spoken words...brr."
(NME)
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1. It sounds great and it will introduce you to some of Scotland's most exciting new bands.
2. We'll give you a FREE DOWNLOAD and also a FREE LIMBO PASS worth at least £4.00 to get you into Limbo one Thursday.
3. You'll own what is probably the first album in a long time featuring a series of LIVE recordings by different bands all of which were made at the same venue. The obvious precedents are Live At The Marquee and Live At The Bluenote, but these were both released at least thirty years ago! Limbo Live Volume 1 is part of an ongoing series with the next volume already on the way
4. All the recordings captured on Limbo Live Volume 1 are of an incredibly high quality, bearing testament to the extremely high grade audio aesthetics of the Voodoo Rooms.
5. All the material on Limbo Live Volume 1 is totally exclusive and will not be available in any other format until the CDs have all sold out. At that point, we will release it digitally via iTunes etc. Limbo Live Volume 1 is HIGHLY LIMITED EDITION. Only 750 copies are available and it will run out!
6. Limbo Live Volume 1 is a snapshot, capturing a moment, of a Scottish live music scene that is currently punching well above its weight. This CD is PACKED with breaking bands.
7. Limbo Live Volume 1 includes a beautifully designed fourteen page booklet chock to the brim with sleeve notes and photos of all the bands as well as from Limbo itself.
| So, what are you waiting for?! Buy Limbo Live Volume 01 for £7.99 and get a free pass to Limbo worth £4 plus a a free download! |
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Limbo website: black-spring.com/limbo