http://www.biphonic.co.uk/ Biphonic Records news en biphonic@postmaster.co.uk Copyright 2008 2008-03-24T13:32:00+00:00 http://www.biphonic.co.uk/?/comments/new_swimmer_one_single_and_live_dates/ http://www.biphonic.co.uk/?/comments/new_swimmer_one_single_and_live_dates/#When:13:32:00Z We are very pleased to announce that The Balance Company, the first single from Swimmer One’s album The Regional Variations, will be released on Monday 19 May. Swimmer One will be playing some rare live dates around the same time. New, unreleased songs will be played. Exciting new clothes will be worn. Book now to avoid disappointment. As if you needed reminding, you can watch the video for the single online now at http://www.swimmerone.co.uk/films Live dates below… Saturday 10 May - Green Wedge at the GRV, 37 Guthrie Street, Edinburgh. A benefit gig for the Green Party, in which Swimmer One attempt to reverse climate change using the power of song, and warm up for their big weekend of gigs and travel on 24-25 May. Tickets on door, all in a good cause. Saturday 24 May - Feeling Gloomy at Bar Academy, 16 Parkfield Street, London. Swimmer One make their second appearance at their new favourite London club night. For ticket info, visit www.feelinggloomy.com. Sunday 25 May - Neue Liebe at Voodoo Rooms, 19a West Register Street, Edinburgh. Swimmer One headline the capital’s regular, eclectic cabaret spectacular, supported by a line-up of burlesque performers, poets, artists and other colourful folk. www.thevoodoorooms.com. Thursday 26 June - Carnegie Hall, East Port, Dunfermline. A show supporting Black Affair, Steve Mason from the Beta Band’s new band. www.carnegiehall.co.uk. News 2008-03-24T13:32:00+00:00 http://www.biphonic.co.uk/?/comments/solo_projects/ http://www.biphonic.co.uk/?/comments/solo_projects/#When:21:37:01Z Swimmer One and Luxury Car are both hard at work on their second albums. Meanwhile, Andrew from Swimmer One and John from Luxury Car are also working on side projects. You can listen to sneak previews at their MySpace pages now. John’s page is here. Andrew’s page is here. News 2008-03-03T21:37:01+00:00 http://www.biphonic.co.uk/?/comments/new_swimmer_one_video_now_online/ http://www.biphonic.co.uk/?/comments/new_swimmer_one_video_now_online/#When:21:34:00Z The video for Swimmer One’s next single, The Balance Company, is now finished. The single won’t be out for a little while yet, but you can watch the film online here. The film was made in collaboration with the theatre company Highway Diner and the artist Daniel Warren, who has made four other films with Swimmer One as well as designing all our sleeve art to date. It was inspired, a little bit, by the film Wings of Desire. News 2008-03-01T21:34:00+00:00 http://www.biphonic.co.uk/?/comments/what_well_be_doing_in_2008/ http://www.biphonic.co.uk/?/comments/what_well_be_doing_in_2008/#When:12:29:01Z Now that we have a minute to pause for breath, we’d like to thank everyone who has supported Swimmer One’s debut album The Regional Variations this year. The reviews have been fantastic, and the feedback from live shows and on the web has been very encouraging. Here are some things you can expect from the band next year… 1. A single, The Balance Company, early in the year, accompanied by a video, shot in November with the theatre company Highway Diner and director Daniel Warren. 2. Album number two. We hope to have this finished by March or April, which would mean we can release it later in 2008. We’re very excited about the new songs. It’s… epic. And very pop. 3. More Swimmer One live shows. Will keep you updated. 4. New music from Luxury Car, who have been silent too long. 5. The debut album by First Minister, which is being recorded just now. Meanwhile, we wish you all a happy new year. 2007-12-12T12:29:01+00:00 http://www.biphonic.co.uk/?/comments/a_pulsating_alt_pop_gem/ http://www.biphonic.co.uk/?/comments/a_pulsating_alt_pop_gem/#When:14:33:00Z Reviews continue to come in for Swimmer One’s debut album, The Regional Variations, and have been pretty great across the board. Some quotes below. You can read full versions at www.swimmerone.co.uk/reviews. The Balance Company, a track from the album, will be released as a single early in the new year. Swimmer One recently shot a video for the song The Balance Company with director Daniel Warren and the theatre company Highway Diner. Live dates for 2008 should be announced soon too. ‘They give intelligence a good name and are more windswept than worthy. Their music has the quirky intricacy of Belle & Sebastian and the soaring atmosphere of Blue Nile, and it is very, very good.’ The Guardian. ‘An exhilarating debut. The Regional Variations is one of the finest of this year’s freshman efforts. A pulsating alt-pop gem.’ The Independent. ‘Captivating to the point of hypnosis, The Regional Variations is a record of such heart-melting honesty not even the bitter autumnal chill can penetrate its innately warm interior.’ Drowned in Sound. ‘If David Bowie ever got stuck in a lift shaft with Jarvis Cocker and Bill Drummond, they might eventually come up with something as enticing as The Regional Variations.’ Metro. ‘Swimmer One’s debut is a promiscuous synth pop marvel, littered with doomsayers, fakesters, bureaucrats, drowning men, black sheep, theatre freaks and TV clowns in fuck-me heels. An erudite deuce of Central Belt electro-pervs who tally Scotland’s coastal towns as one might red light one-night stands, Swimmer One are a bookish, codpiece-disco treat.’ Plan B ‘Might just be the find of the year for the uninitiated… Like a stripped down Scottish Pet Shop Boys without the funny hats or a more melancholy synth-based Pulp, Swimmer One’s brilliance should be shouted from the rooftops.’ The List. ‘A melodic and oblique approach, and a lyric sheet which reads every bit as well as it sounds, set them apart. The Regional Variations is about as original as it is going to get in pop land.’ Scotland on Sunday. ‘Assuredly one of the best albums you’ll hear all year, if not millennium… If you have any liking for - well, not just electronic music, but genuinely life-affirming pop, I urge you to listen to this album. I guarantee you will not be disappointed.’ Is This Music. ‘As one would expect from this quietly brilliant duo, The Regional Variations has been worth the epic wait: 11 intelligent, wry vignettes wrapped in rich, perfectionist pop.’ The Herald. ‘Edinburgh duo Hamish Brown and Andrew Eaton have released a surefire contender for debut of the year… A class act, head and shoulders above trite chart fodder.’ Shropshire Star. ‘There are a few remarkable albums that sonically embrace technology while simultaneously displaying cynicism, paranoia and claustrophobia at certain aspects of the modern world. The Regional Variations is one such release and joins counterparts The Sophtware Slump and OK Computer in pulling it off so marvellously… Perhaps not the cheeriest record of the year, but certainly one of the best.’ The Skinny. ‘Proving those end-of-year polls should never be published early comes the debut album from Swimmer One, containing choruses so addictive, so punch-the-air pop perfect, it deserves to be a contender.’ Edinburgh Evening News News 2007-11-28T14:33:00+00:00 http://www.biphonic.co.uk/?/comments/swimmer_one_release_the_regional_variations/ http://www.biphonic.co.uk/?/comments/swimmer_one_release_the_regional_variations/#When:20:29:00Z Swimmer One’s debut album, The Regional Variations, will be officially released in late September, 2007. However you can order the album now via our label shop. Reviews so far… ‘A promiscuous synth pop marvel. Swimmer One’s lascivious digital kitchen sink dramas are peculiar, humdrum, universal; less 15 minutes of fame, more 15 minutes of air: and they’re all the more buoyant, and cardinal, for it.’ Plan B. ‘Might just be the find of the year.... Swimmer One’s brilliance should be shouted from the rooftops.’ The List. ‘The Regional Variations has been worth the epic wait; 11 intelligent, wry vignettes wrapped in rich perfectionist pop.’ The Herald. Watch out for more reviews and features in the national press in the next few weeks. The Regional Variations’ tracklist is as follows. 1. Drowning Nightmare 1 2. Largs Hum 3. National Theatre 4. But My Heart Is Broken 5. The Fakester Genocide 6. The Balance Company 7. Drowning Nightmare 2 8. Whatever You Do, Don’t Go In The Basement. 9. Regional 10. The Dark Ages 11. A Petrol Pump In The Cradle Of Christianity 2007-09-08T20:29:00+00:00 http://www.biphonic.co.uk/?/comments/luxury_car_on_the_radio_1_evening_session/ http://www.biphonic.co.uk/?/comments/luxury_car_on_the_radio_1_evening_session/#When:20:18:00Z Luxury Car recorded a live session for BBC Radio 1 Session in Scotland with Vic Galloway. The four new tracks are available to listen to on their MySpace page: www.myspace.com/luxurycar. The session features the recorded debut of the live rhythm section, for those who only know Luxury Car as a electro-duo. David “Stitchy” Coyle will be playing bass and singing with them until he goes off to live in Norway next year. He is also the singer in the only good white funk band ever - OBE. Jon Murray is the new drummer. He also plays with ‘cooler than fuck’ indie band The X Vectors. Luxury Car are pictured above - very drunk at their former bass player Louise’s wedding. Luxury Car 2007-07-25T20:18:00+00:00