{"product_id":"movietone","title":"Movietone","description":"\u003cp\u003eWorld Of Echo are proud to announce the long-awaited reissue of the self-titled debut album by Bristol’s \u003cstrong\u003eMovietone\u003c\/strong\u003e. Originally released in 1995 by Planet Records and reissued on CD in 2003 by The Pastels’ Geographic Music imprint, this is the first time \u003cem\u003eMovietone\u003c\/em\u003e has been reissued on vinyl.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAn expanded double-LP edition, it includes the extra tracks from the 2003 CD (their first two singles, and an unreleased demo of “Chance Is Her Opera”), and adds three more unearthed gems: demos of “Alkaline Eye” and “She Smiled Mandarine Like”, and an early take of “Late July”, recorded in a garden by Dave Pearce (Flying Saucer Attack) in 1993.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTaken together, this is the definitive collection of music from the first phase of one of Bristol’s most remarkable groups.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMovietone\u003c\/em\u003e was the culmination of a series of events, explorations, and discoveries, starting at secondary school – the group’s core membership of Kate Wright, Rachel Brook, Matt Elliott and Matt Jones met at Cotham School in Bristol. As for many other groups, their early years were all about experimenting and finding ways to ‘make do’, a DIY sensibility that would inform \u003cem\u003eMovietone\u003c\/em\u003e through their decade-long lifespan.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBy the time they released \u003cem\u003eMovietone\u003c\/em\u003e, they’d found a home with Bristol’s Planet, run by author Richard King and James Webster, who had both released their first two singles, “She Smiled Mandarine Like” and “Mono Valley”. There was other music happening around them in Bristol, too, from the Jones brothers’ avant-rock outfit Crescent (who were \u003cem\u003eMovietone\u003c\/em\u003e’s closest conspirators) through Elliott’s jungle\/electronica project Third Eye Foundation, and Brook and Elliott’s membership of Flying Saucer Attack.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe vision in the music, mostly, belongs to Wright, but \u003cem\u003eMovietone\u003c\/em\u003e ran in democratic creative consort. Listening back to \u003cem\u003eMovietone\u003c\/em\u003e, you can hear this democracy in action through the wildness of the music, which is balanced by the poetics of Wright’s lyrics and melodies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMovietone\u003c\/em\u003e would go on to make three fantastic albums for Domino – Night and Day (1997), The Blossom Filled Streets (2000), and The Sand and The Stars (2003) – and their Peel Sessions were released in 2022 on Textile.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eStill held in high regard by artists like Steven R. Smith and The Pastels, whose Stephen McRobbie once described them as “one of the great unknown English groups,” it’s an absolute thrill to listen to \u003cem\u003eMovietone\u003c\/em\u003e anew – still inspired, still seductive, still magic, still mysterious.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"World of Echo","offers":[{"title":"Black LPx2","offer_id":50526279696715,"sku":"2003284","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/First_Album_c4ba5c6a_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1728041231","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/products\/movietone","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}