| | | MBICR are from Oxford and have connections with Truck records, The Rock of Travolta etc.
I've been rather a fan of theirs for a while, and did an email interview with them for my fanzine (available on request), although shockingly I've never actually got round to seeing them live.
I think the best thing they've done is still the first two tracks they recorded/released (on a split CD with Moonkat on Tinfoil records, fact fans) - "No Cigar" and "Morning After Pill". Both absolutely stunning tracks - rising post-rock fury matched perfectly with dense, image-packed spoken word. Pretty mindblowing stuff.
Both tracks are included on their debut album "Indian Ink", which is pretty great throughout - urgent, ambitious, wildly emotional and unashamedly smart. A brilliant example of what can be done with music / spoken word crossovers..
About two years ago(?) they released a second album "My Elixir, My Poison" which is harder going, but still seeps into your bones after a few listens in that way that difficult second albums have a tendency to do. The music relies more heavily on electronics than on the previously dominant Slinty guitar dynamics, and as a result things are focused on atmospherics rather than momentum. Emily's poems have also completely lost the narrative/observational thread running through "Indian Ink", instead dwelling almost entirely on heavy Slyvia Plath-esque symbolism.
Pretty ambitious stuff, and shows that they're defiantly unafraid of being labeled "pretentious" or whatever..
Don't know what they've been up to since then.
They used to have a website, but I can't find it.. |
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