Code:
A104CD Type:
CD Price:
€ 16.00 Release:
2005-05-26
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Description:
Produced by Martijn Groeneveld at Mailmen Studio [Amsterdam, Holland], September 2004 - February 2005.
Comment:
BYE BYE is the title of the brand new album by Mist, dream pop ensemble from Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
It´s the long-awaited follow-up to We Should Have Been Stars (A-071CD / 2003), an album also full of intimate quality pop that has received wide international acclaim.
BYE BYE was recorded autumn 2004, in Mist´s own rehearsal space alongside the river Amstel. It is, like their previous album, released on Astro Records, and contains fourteen new alternative songs with the melancholy and melodic sensitivity that have become so typical of Mist. BYE BYE was mixed in January 2005, with producer Martijn Groeneveld at his Mailmen Studio in Utrecht. Mailmen is known for his work with artists such as This Beautiful Mess, At the Close of Everyday, J. Perkin (Solo), Black Strap, Face Tomorrow, Dreadlock Pussy and Magnusson arrived from Fjörnebo (www.mailmen.nl). BYE BYE was mastered with Alan Ward at the Electric City Studios in Brussels, Belgium. The photograph on the cover of the BYE BYE-digipack sleeve was made by the well-known photographer Wijnanda Deroo (www.wijnandaderoo.com).
Over the years, Mist has become an important player in the independent pop scene in Europe and South America. In 2004, the band led by singer-songwriter Rick Treffers toured in Spain, Germany, France and Norway. The band even travelled to South America to visit Argentina and Chile. The album We Should Have Been Stars was released in Germany on Tumbleweed Records (www.tumbleweed-records.de), in Mexico on Astro Mexico and in Chile – with an extra track for the Soutn American market – on the label Quemasucabeza (www.quemasucabeza.cl). Mist shared the stage with The The, Spain, Nits, The Posies and their befriended label mates from Spain Schwarz, Lansbury, Holywater and Ya te Digo.
With the personal, intimate, intense and musically layered BYE BYE (``an album about farewell and all its facets´´), this five-piece band from Amsterdam stands a serious chance to reach the top of alternative European pop.
