ORDER NOW - ONLY 100 AVAILABLE!!!
LIMITED EDITION RAPTURE-READY
ENDTIME ADVENT CALENDAR
this is a unique malicious/shriekback production - a double vinyl version of the glory bumps album with three brand-new bonus tracks not available anywhere else... beautifully packaged in a rapture-ready endtime advent calendar, complete with little windows that open revealing all your little symbols of approaching end-of-the-worldness... the vinyl is packaged in a pure white sleeve and can be stored separately while the calendar can be hung on the wall to impress the vicar when he comes round for tea... there'll also be a numbered personalised certificate of authentication signed by the reverend andrews and a malicious damage representative, plus a few other bits and bobs...
ONLY 100 OF THESE WILL BE AVAILABLE and it's now ready to order for £50 in the malicious shop - it'll be shipped in a few weeks and no money will be debited until it departs

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over the past 23 years, shriekback have managed to hack their own unique trail through the sonic swamp... never bothering to check in at the counter of convention, the band, originally
formed of refugees from xtc and gang of four, have led us through the curious mix of organics and mechanics that was care, the clinical funk
of jam science, the machine-free beauty of
big night music and many other matchless works... and they have always sounded fresh and
confident in comparison with any number of
their contemporaries...

the glory bumps is a comin'...
and now we’re very proud to announce the arrival of shriekback’s eleventh album, and their second on malicious damage... all sumptuously packaged as normal...

glory bumps is in many ways more recognisably the descendant of their mid-80’s ‘alt-rock’ classic oil and gold than any since... anthems, hooligan choruses, big guitars, brass, a smattering of psychobilly and, as usual, shed-loads of words...

glory bumps has a curious tangential relationship with barry andrews’ and martyn barker’s recent improvised album monstrance, a collaboration with xtc’s andy partridge – glory bumps uses a number of loops created from the monstrance album [‘because they were there’] as well as martyns’ inimitable live drums and real-time guitar contributions from andy... barry co-produces with stuart rowe, who was one of the engineers from monstrance... however there is no doubt that this is a shriekback album 100% – as you will hear… wendy partridge who has sung backing vocals on every shriekback album since 1986 features as does barry’s son finn andrews [of the veils] who lends his intense vocals to the happy-clappy title track...

the album’s title is a reference to the goosebumps experienced by fundamentalist christians ‘when the amount of misery prevalent in the world presages, or so they believe, their abrupt assimilation into the bosom of their lord’ although we suspect that, on the day of the rapture, shriekback will not be amongst them...

personnel
barry andrews: vocals, keyboards...
finn andrews: backing vocals...
martyn barker: drums and percussion...
andy partridge: guitar...
catherine shrubshall: brass and woodwind...
mark the harp: blues harp...
ben smith: trombone... stuart rowe: guitars...
finn wilkinson & mia griffiths: kids choir...
produced by barry andrews & stuart rowe...
mixed & mastered by stuart rowe
full track listing: glory bumps, the bride stripped bare, bittersweet, hooray for everything, amaryllis in the sprawl, squanderer, mahalia, burying the bunny, yarg 7, devils’ onions

glory bumps is released on 4th june 2007 but the t-shirts will be ready in a couple of weeks - check out the malicious shop now...

here's what they said about the last album:
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"Cormorant is both a welcome return to form and a powerful evolution for a band that have never failed to deliver classy, meaningful and toe-tapping music. Hearing some of the combinations produced by this collective at once recall their better moments, while also inventing new forms within their oeuvre. The canon of Shriekback is further fortified by this hefty dose of sonic bliss. With guests Andy Partridge (XTC) and Finn Andrews (The Veils), the band take their sound forward with a nod to the past."
full review at studio m
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"all in all, a wonderful addition to the shriekback catalogue, and one that will hopefully re-energise people into rediscovering this most wonderful of forgotten bands. there is plenty on offer to make you smile, swoon, and even dance a little..."
full review at sonomu
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"A blend of retro, leftfield indie ... with ambient and funk flourishes, Cormorant rarely settles for long before veering in a new musical direction. Whereas ‘Sea Theory’ and ‘Waterbaby’ are relatively conventional tunes, the avant-garde pieces like ‘Huytfi Dbl Plus’ could be another band altogether..."
full review at uk-fusion
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cormorant: md605 £11 + p&p
ronny/sea theory/waterbaby/huytfi dbl plus/
the strongest wind that blows/load the boat/ troublemeat/reason with the beast/
bonehead/voiled karletus/true passage/
il mystera del tempo

and for those of you who want to test the water click on these for a sneaky preview:
ronny
seatheory
waterbaby
bonehead

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buy it here!!