Into The Velvet Garden

Coming out via 4AD on September 14 is A Brief History Of Love, the debut album from young London band The Big Pink. Recorded at Electric Lady Studios in New York with the help of Rich Costly (Rage Against The Machine, Muse, New Order), the album could yet prove to be one of the best UK releases of ’09.

Blending rich dance beats, continental tribal rhythms and blinding shoe gaze guitars, the duo of Robbie Furze and Milo Cordell have created a very polished first album. The band cite a number of psychedelic influences, including Alejandro Jodorowsky’s cult film The Holy Mountain and Andy Warhol’s  Exploding Plastic Inevitable, and it’s quite evident in their overall sound. If you want even more to go by, The Big Pink blend Spiritualized’s intense distorted guitar riffs, Gang Gang Dance’s ethnic dance rhythms and Chairlift’s crystalline synth pop.

Both men come from impressive musical backgrounds, Furze used to be a member of Alec Empire and both have been involved in various record labels over the years. Cordell’s label Marok Records put out some early work by The Klaxons and Crystal Castles, well before either band hit the big time. More recently they have released 7″ vinyl records for Rainbow Arabia and Telepathe.

The Big Pink recently won NME’s Philip Hall Radar Award for best up and coming act and it won’t be long until we all find out why. Their first single from A Brief History Of Love, titled ‘Dominos’, has been made available for free download. It will also be released as a limited edition 7″, with the b-side being ‘She’s No Sense’, a song the band recorded with Florence and the Machine. ‘She’s No Sense’ will not appear on the album. Keep an eye on the band’s website for more news.

 The Big Pink- Dominos: MP3

 The Big Pink- Myspace

 

Posted by Nick Fulton under London, UK
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