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  • Comet Gain 'Paperback Ghosts' - Cargo Records UK

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    Comet Gain 'Paperback Ghosts'

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    Comet Gain 'Paperback Ghosts'

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    Available on Heavyweight Vinyl LP  + MP3 Card and CD.

    Recorded at Soup Studios with producer Simon Trought at the helm, and inspired by the psycho-geography of walks in North London woods and in the forgotten grey hinterland of the city's back streets, Comet Gain's seventh album Paperback Ghosts comes soaked in autumn melancholy. Tender-hearted but not miserable, defiant but not angry, it maintains the delicate balance that has always been Comet Gain's strength.


    The album is about ghosts: the half-forgotten spectres of lost loves; the people who live inside their own sepia-tinted memories; the mystical phantom presence of previous owners retained by used books, the paperbacks haunted by old fingerprints. Blending psychedelia, folk-rock, garage muscle and 4am sadness, the songs draw on the esoteric that lies behind the ordinary. All contain a hope or sweetness. Sad Love and other Short Stories is about being haunted by memories of a lost, unrequited love, while in An Orchid Stuck in Her Throat a living ghost reflects on a life of missed chances. Stranger still is Confessions of a Daydream, wherein a mystic mod magician wanders Limehouse conjuring up the ghosts of Margaret Thatcher and flame haired 50s witch goddess Marjorie Cameron to wage a perpetual psychic war in the phantom back streets of broken London, before the defiantly undead John McKeown (The Yummy Fur / The 1990s) pops up at the end to intone some words of wisdom.  

    Comet Gain are David Charlie Feck (vocals, guitar), Ben Phillipson (guitar), Rachel Evans (vocals), ex-Morrissey/The Meteors drummer Woodie Taylor (percussion), Anne Laure Guillain (keyboards) and new recruit, Clientele bassist James Hornsey ' a motley group of like-minded romantics, taking pride in an abject failure to care about the normal band model. Inspired at times by early Creation Records, Television Personalities and mod culture, drawing from the same ideals as Dexys, The Style Council and Vic Godard and from the lineage of The Velvet Underground, The Byrds and the 13th Floor Elevators, their mystic anarchist principles blend French New Wave with English kitchen-sink heart. For years they have drifted through scenes picking up people and emotional ties - from Riot Grrrl to acid punks, C86 to lo-fi - yet somehow outliving their peers and in turn inspiring a younger generation of DIY musicians like The Cribs, Love Is All, Veronica Falls, and Crystal Stilts.  

    On each album they record, Comet Gain bring together their myriad of influences, creating a cohesive aesthetic between sound, artwork, liner notes and ideas. "Paperback Ghosts" is no different, offering us a glimpse into a haunted half-world with its strings, yearning harmonies, 12-string acoustic guitars and half-focused vision of pianos in reverb, while remaining at heart a pop record, a richly textured affirmation of Comet Gain's twenty-year anti-career.

    Tracklisting:
    1. Long After Tonite's Candles Are Blown
    2. Sad Love And Other Short Stories
    3. Behind The House She Lived In
    4. Wait 'til December
    5. Breaking Open The Head Part 1
    6. The Last Love Letter
    7. Sixteen Oh Four
    8. (All The) Avenue Girls
    9. Your Haunted Heart
    10. Far From The Pavillion
    11. An Orchid Stuck Inside Her Throat
    12. Confessions Of A Daydream
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  • Comet Gain 'Howl Of The Lonely Crowd' - Cargo Records UK

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    Comet Gain 'Howl Of The Lonely Crowd'

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    Howl of the Lonely Crowd represents the fruition of the affection with which Comet Gain are held: recorded and produced variously by British musical icon Edwyn Collins, Ryan Jarman of The Cribs, Brian O'Shaughnessy (My Bloody Valentine, Primal Scream) and Alasdair Maclean of The Clientele, who also contributed guitar. With added input from Matthew Sawyer (The Ghosts), Helen King (Shrag), and a blast of Terry Edwards' (Spiritualized, Gallon Drunk, The Tindersticks) legendary trumpet on the rousing mod anthem The Weekend Dreams, the record captures a band fully in their stride and able to realise their full potential.

    As Feck remarked on being given access to the full range of Edwyn Collin's studio with its vast collection of guitars: they (the guitars) look great and were played on great records, which I tried to channel in that way a tribesman would eat the brain of his smartest enemy ' though I didn't eat any part of Edwyn.

    1. Clang Of The Concrete Swans 
    2. The Weekend Dreams 
    3. An Arcade From The Warm Rain That Falls 
    4. She Had Daydreams 
    5. Working Circle Explosive! 
    6. Yoona Baines 
    7. Herbert Huncke Pt 2 
    8. After Midnight, After Its All Gone Wrong 
    9. A Memorial For Nobody I Know 
    10. Ballad Of Frankie Machine 
    11. Some Of Us Don't Want To Be Saved 
    12. Thee Ecstatic Library 
    13. In A Lonely Place

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  • Comet Gain 'Fingerprint Ritual' - Cargo Records UK

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    Comet Gain 'Fingerprint Ritual' Vinyl 12" - Red

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    Red Vinyl 12' (Limited to 500 copies).

    COMET GAIN return with a four song EP of tracks recorded at Soup Studios with producer Simon Trought at the same time as the LP, BREAKING OPEN THE HEAD Part 2 - A hugely different version or continuation of the LPs Part 1 which was a fuzz Rubbles acid pop song about the creators of the dream machine, Phillip K Dick and other adepts finding the door to illumination and such things.

    Taking hints from Them's 'the square room', early Sundial, exploito dumb psych like Ultimate Spinach, Sonic Youth 'Thousand leaves', Elevators 'Easter Everywhere' and German kosmiche music but then forgetting them all once we started although for some reason a snippet of The Monkees arrives near the end as well as cameos from Marjorie Cameron's/Jack Parsons magical child and the dream I had that the holy grail was in a bucket in some guys shed in North London. The song is over 11 minutes but hopefully has enough going to not bore the discerning listener.

    THAT LUCIFER SUMMER - A dumb garage folk rock fuzz and punk tambourines thing a la the first Love record, The Leaves, Teardrop Explodes, Music Machine etc. A jaunty song about dark things namely the nightmare side of the occult renaissance in the late sixties in the west coast. TO THE CITY'S CORE - Inept white boys n girls attempt to play Bo Diddleys 'Black Gladiator' LP with a 'Slates'-era Fall sneer and end up somewhere else - includes Comet Gain's first funky(ish) break beat and a farfisa organ played thru a mangled fuzz pedal.

    THE INSIGNIFICANT DIGNIFIED - A malformed protest song and memorial for all those old school socialists and anarchists and fire raisers that have been pushed aside by the change of history and its political axis - circular folk rock verses remind us of the legacy of these prophets of arcadian utopias and the need for the spirit of the people to endure - these choruses give way to guitar duel solos as the past fights the future of the left the second of these  3 solos has a guest scrabbabang geetar screech from producer Simon Trought - his first since the days of his old group Tompaulin. Inspired at times by early Creation Records, Television Personalities and mod culture, drawing from the same ideals as Dexys, The Style Council and Vic Godard and from the lineage of The Velvet Underground, The Byrds and the 13th Floor Elevators, their mystic anarchist principles blend French New Wave with English kitchen-sink heart. For years they have drifted through scenes picking up people and emotional ties - from Riot Grrrl to acid punks, C86 to lo-fi - yet somehow outliving their peers and in turn inspiring a younger generation of DIY musicians like The Cribs, Love Is All, Veronica Falls, and Crystal Stilts.

    Tracklisting:
    1. Breaking Open The Head Part 2 (The Eye-Shaped Room)
    2. That Lucifer Summer
    3. To The City's Core
    4. The Obsolete Significant Dignified

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  • Comet Gain 'Sad Love And Other Short Stories' - Cargo Records UK

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    Comet Gain 'Sad Love And Other Short Stories' Vinyl 7"

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    Coloured Vinyl 7 Ltd to 500 copies.

    Taken from the album Paperback Ghosts, Comet Gain's new single 'Sad Love' and Other Short Stories is a classic upbeat indiepop tune, brimming with melody and slathered in chiming Byrdsian guitars.

    Over yearning harmonies and keening strings songwriter David Feck muses on a love left behind and what might have been, on a life haunted by memories of unrequited romance. Comet Gain are David Charlie Feck (vocals, guitar), Ben Phillipson (guitar), Rachel Evans (vocals), ex-Morrissey/The Meteors drummer Woodie Taylor (percussion), Anne Laure Guillain (keyboards) and new recruit, Clientele bassist James Hornsey ' a motley group of like-minded romantics, taking pride in an abject failure to care about the normal band model. Inspired at times by early Creation Records, Television Personalities and mod culture, drawing from the same ideals as Dexys, The Style Council and Vic Godard and from the lineage of The Velvet Underground, The Byrds and the 13th Floor Elevators, their mystic anarchist principles blend French New Wave with English kitchen-sink heart.

    For years they have drifted through scenes picking up people and emotional ties - from Riot Grrrl to acid punks, C86 to lo-fi - yet somehow outliving their peers and in turn inspiring a younger generation of DIY musicians like The Cribs, Love Is All, Veronica Falls, and Crystal Stilts. With Paperback Ghosts, Comet Gain have brought together their myriad influences to create a richly textured affirmation of their twenty-year anti-career, a cohesive aesthetic of sound, artwork, liner notes and ideas.

    Steeped in melancholy but with a beating pop heart, Sad Love' and Other Short Stories is both one of the album's high points and a timeless single in its own right. 

    "Indie-pop lifers on top form on their seventh full-length" Uncut

    "Crisp and wistful, it has a satisying apple-sharp bite... there's a warm and lovely heart at this record's centre" Q

    "You need 'Paperback Ghosts' in your life - and whatever your life is like, this album will make it that little bit better" A Layer Of Chips
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