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Modern English Persevere With New Album ‘Soundtrack’!

The long awaited seventh album Soundtrack adds yet another breakthrough gem to the Modern English arsenal.  From its optimistic feel good opening of "It's OK", lifting soaring "Blister", lyrically dark “Bomb”, tell it like it is title track "Soundtrack", soft to solid “Call Me”, and rocked out buoyant “Here Comes The Failure” to the geared up “The Lowdown”, with memorable sing-along “Up Here In The Brain”,  to its remarkable closeouts of “Deep Sea Diver”, “Antique Future”, and "Fin", this CD certainly will not disappoint, leaving listeners wanting more.

 

Modern English once again teamed up with past producer Hugh Jones (After The Snow “I Melt With You”, & Ricochet Days) along with legendary artist Vaughan Oliver, 23 Envelope (4AD, Mesh & Lace, Ricochet Days, After The Snow, and others) to create yet another masterpiece, Soundtrack. The new CD is grounded in buoyant, upbeat, fresh, clean, progressive rock, perhaps developing a potential category all its own, with slight hints of past accomplishments lurking in the mist.

 

Uniquely exclusive to other works that Modern English has produced; Soundtrack is very distinctive, an exceptionally modern refresher.  From the opening track “It’s OK” to the ending track “Fin”, Soundtrack plants 11 seeds within the body, mind, heart and soul, leaving the ears electrified.

 

With a diverse variety of rock euphoria throughout, Soundtrack provides throbbing tempos, clean compositions, amid Robbie Grey's unique verbal array, Steven Walker’s crooning guitars, Nik William's clean bass lines, Matthew Shipley's graceful keyboards, and Jon Solomon's pounding drums.  Collectively, they provide the listener not only a piece of art, but a truly timeless rock album at heart. You'll leave more attentive, influenced, and wanting more.  Old and new fans alike will unquestionably embrace Soundtrack.

 

It's hard to pick a favorite track as each has its own story to tell.  Two months in the making, and years on the shelf eagerly awaiting release, the unsullied new album is set to be released May 24, 2010 on Darla Records. Soundtrack adds another notch to Modern English’s already attractive melodic assemblage.  Feel the future, explore the new decade on Soundtrack.

 

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Source: www.ModernEnglish.me Webmaster Review by Kraig

Many thanks go out to Richard (Forum@ModernEnglish.me), who religiously runs the ME Forum, James at Darla Records for expiditing my copy of Soundtrack so soon, and of course The Band!


Respectfully,
Kraig, Webmaster: Webmaster@ModernEnglish.me

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Wounded Bird                                         Darla Records

Darla Records is proud to offer the seventh album by iconic post-punk/new wave pop craftsmen Modern English, best known for their hit song “I Melt with You”. Their classic album After the Snow (4AD: 1982) featured what became a radio/club mega-hit and MTV staple, “I Melt with You”, which was used in the film "Valley Girl", in more than one TV advertisement and became the flagship track on the popular Nouvelle Vague covers album.

Now as then, Modern English is smart, modern pop, firmly rooted in post-punk yet undeniably Beatle-esque. Described by Robbie Grey as, “Some real music for real people with real emotions”, Soundtrack marks the convincing return of a band with a solidly recognizable, signature sound and pop sensibility. The songs ranging from the uplifting, jangle-pop with infectious, sing-along chorus and dance-able beat of “It’s Ok”, the record’s obvious single, and the equally inspired “Blister” and “Up Here in the Brain”, to dark, downtempo grooves with somber keyboard washes in which Grey sings of never-far-off blackness and suicide, “Soundtrack”, “Bomb”, “The Lowdown”, are all characteristically introspective and consistent with Modern English’s best work.

Modern English now is Robbie Grey (vocals), Steven Walker (guitar), Nik Williams (bass), Matthew Shipley (keyboards) and Jon Solomon (drums). Modern English’s George Martin, Producer Hugh Jones (“I Melt With You”, After The Snow, Ricochet Days, plus Simple Minds, Echo & The Bunnymen, That Petrol Emotion, Pale Saints, The Charlatans, etc.) produced Soundtrack. The album was recorded residential style - living, eating and sleeping music at Chapel Studios in the English countryside over a two month period, then mixed at Pete Townsend’s studio, The Barge, on the Thames in London and mastered at Metropolis Studios, London.

Album design by Vaughan Oliver, 23 Envelope.