Bristol (UK) three piece The Flies will release their second album ‘Pleasure Yourself’ on 1st September 2014 through Library Music Recordings.
The Flies formed in Bristol when production team and Emmy Award winning soundtrack composers The Insects (Bob Locke and Tim Norfolk) joined forces with vocalist/musician Sean Cook.
The eleven tracks on ‘Pleasure Yourself’ are dreamlike and cinematic – they will enrapture and intrigue from the first listen. It’s a timelessly beautiful collection of songs – charismatically calm and gracefully catchy.
‘My Baby Will Leave You’ has a plodding pace and has a grizzled voice that seem as rough as sandpaper. So it comes as a relief when the whole thing blossoms into something lighter, brighter and brassier. And a good deal happier.
‘Pleasure Yourself – Part 1’ has a tick-tock structure – and a music-box quality.
Full of gears and intricate movements. The vocal is papery white and kind. Like the wrapping tissue on a promised gift.
‘All I Want’ has odd, rubbery inch-sized twungs. Plucked out from the juices. Like cherry stones thumbed from a pie.
The voice is soulful and joyful. And the rhythm sways like a clever waltz.
‘Part of Me’ has a delicate tangle of fine guitars. It’s breathy and fragile.
‘The Usual Unusual’ is a series of dark bruises and match-strike rhythms.
This album is ingeniously inventive and gleefully eccentric.
With sparkling, passionate voices that are forever shaking your toes and curling up your insides.
Clever and witty.
@neilmach © 2014
Link:
https://www.facebook.com/thefliesmusic/
The Flies will play two shows in support of their album release – dates are as follows:
2nd September – The Exchange, Bristol
3rd September – The Water Rats, London
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