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  • Death and Vanilla 'Are You A Dreamer ?'

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    Death and Vanilla 'Are You A Dreamer ?'

    £11.99

    New album from the Malmo-based trio of Marleen Nilsson, Anders Hansson and Magners Bodin. Following the critically-acclaimed To Where The Wild Things Are'from 2015 and their haunting collection of soundtracks in between.
     
    'Lush and enveloping, reminiscent of Curt Boettcher and Margo Guryan.' The Wire

    'Fantastically eerie.' Clash
     
    'Swedish exponents of dreamily lovely psych and lush, late-60s-style baroque pop.' The Guardian
     
    Exposing the trio's love of all things retro with a nod to everything from Fun Boy Three to Orchestre Poly Rythmo de Contonou, while still roaming somewhere between an ambient Eno and Cocteau Twins at a late-night soiree. A unique, individual sound: Longer, more plush and pampered; more hypnotic and haunting, mixing mellotron and affected guitar with a refined rhythm. Electronic melancholy at its most evocative, riddled with super-memorable motifs and melodies that nestle in reflective echo.
     
    Pink vinyl lovingly packaged in deluxe grey textured board, standard edition on crystal clear vinyl.

    Tracklisting:
    1. A Flaw In The Iris
    2. Let's Never Leave Here
    3. Mercier
    4. Eye Bath
    5. The Hum
    6. Nothing Is Real
    7. Vespertine
    8. Wallpaper Pattern

    Release Date: 10/05/2019
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  • Death And Vanilla 'California Owls EP' - Cargo Records UK

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    Death And Vanilla 'California Owls EP' Vinyl 12" - Translucent Green

    £13.99

    4 track EP cut at 45rpm on green vinyl. 1000 copies worldwide.

    'Sweet psychedelic pop from your new favourite Swedes.. nocturnal track, California Owls is hypnotic, this is dream pop at its absolute best.' i-D

     

    'Our dreamiest pick this week - ¦ "California Owls," pairs reverb-soaked vocals with a harpsichord-like synth that sounds like sunlight filtered through water.' NPR

    'California Owls' could almost be Beach House. At least until it descends into a two-minute cascade of bird noises. Enchanting stuff.' Loud & Quiet / 'Nilsson's vocals bob in an ocean of reverb on California Owls'evoke everything from Czech cinema soundtracks to The Velvet Underground channelled through their uniquely distorted lens' Clash

    'California Owls,' a tidy three and a half minutes of airy-pop gorgeousness followed by two more combining chirping birds and tones reminiscent of a distant calliope amidst the reliable retro-futurism.' The Vinyl District

    Following the success of their critically acclaimed To Where The Wild Things Are'released in May, Death And Vanilla return with EP California Owls'EP, featuring two non-album tracks. Forming in Malmö, Sweden by Marleen Nilsson and Anders Hansson, Death and Vanilla utilise vintage musical equipment such as vibraphone, organ, mellotron, tremolo guitar and moog, to emulate the sounds of 60s/70s soundtracks, library music, German Krautrock, French Ye-ye pop and 60s psych. They revel in the warmth of older analogue instruments to create a more organic sound, each loose wire and off-kilter noise adding to the rich atmosphere. 


    Creating deliciously enticing soundscapes, full of moody moogs and breathless vocals, their influences are as diverse as their music. Passionate about the culture of the 60s/70s, Death And Vanilla have the retro-futuristic edge of Broadcast with Stereolab leanings and the electronic library sounds of the BBC Electronic Workshop. Opulent and timeless, California Owls'is a reverb soaked spectral-pop song drenched in 60s-psych while the dark and swirling melodies of Follow The Light'has a Walk Away Renee pace'(Guardian).

    Their new EP brings together old songs with the new, much like the samples and the instruments they use, whilst capturing the haunting and wild dreamy experimental edge of To Where The Wild Things Are'.

    Tracklisting:
    1. California Owls
    2. Follow the Light
    3. Erté
    4. Reality From Dream

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  • Death And Vanilla 'Death And Vanilla (Album)' - Cargo Records UK

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    Death And Vanilla 'Death And Vanilla (Album)'

    £11.99

    LP is yellow vinyl, CD is didgipack.

    Marleen Nilsson and Anders Hansson AKA Death and Vanilla released their first full length self-titled eponymous debut LP in 2012.

    It radiates sophisticated retro-futuristic psych-pop whilst channeling their passion for hauntology, library, krautrock and radiophonic music.

    Mastered by Linus Sjölund at RED audio it was initially released on French label Hands In The Dark'which like their EP sold out on pre-order.

    Fire Records will now release the album on black/yellow splatter vinyl and CD on May 13th alongside the From Above'7' and their self-titled debut EP.

    Tracklisting:
    1. Rituals
    2. Dreams Of Sheep
    3. Cul-De-Sac
    4. Somnambulists
    5. The Unseeing Eye
    6. From Elsewhere
    7. Library Goblin
    8. The Clearing
    9. The Unseeing I
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  • Death And Vanilla 'Death And Vanilla (EP)' - Cargo Records UK

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    Death And Vanilla 'Death And Vanilla (EP)'

    £11.99

    12' Blue Vinyl EP / CD digipack.

    The first release for the Swedish Psychedelic dream-pop band, their self-titled EP caught the attention of French label Hands In The Dark'.

    They originally released EP in 2010 on CD an extremely limited edition run of 100 copies.

    The EP will be reissued on blue vinyl to match the cover alongside the From Above'7' and their self-titled debut long player.

    Tracklisting:
    1. Ghosts in the Machine
    2. Godspeed
    3. Run Rabbit Run
    4. The Colour Of Space
    5. Ascend And Descend
    6. The Dödens VaniljsÃ¥s Theme
    7. Between The Circles
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  • Death And Vanilla 'The Tenant' Vinyl LP - Magenta - Cargo Records UK

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    Death And Vanilla 'The Tenant' Vinyl LP - Magenta

    £18.99

    Magenta coloured vinyl LP, includes DL card. 'The retro leaning Scandi duo fire up their Moogs and mellotrons, sonic archaeologists with a hauntological bent.. there is an alluring sexiness to their avant-Kraut Moog-pop excursions.' Uncut

    'Recalling the eerie, haunted ambience of Angelo Badalamenti/Julee Cruise's Twin Peaks soundtrack, Stereolab/Broadcast's experimental vision of 50s lounge muzak/exotica and French 60s pop, or the narcotic country-noir of Mazzy Star.' The Guardian

    Following on from the deluxe reissue Vampyr'last year, comes Death And Vanilla's unreleased live score of The Tenant'on limited edition magenta vinyl. Originally scored by Philippe Sarde, this release sees Death And Vanilla reimagine the film's soundtrack four decades on for a new audience.

    The haunting instrumental is a foreboding piece of dark and cinematic avant-garde music that's alienated, lonely and melancholic. Moments of hallucination and delusion mirror the lead character Trelovsky.

    Recorded in 2015 at Cinemascore festival in Spain alongside a two-hour performance and screening of psychological thriller The Tenant'(1976). With the band at their most minimal, the accomplished musicians once again bring the dark narrative to life with their expansive and ethereal noir sound.

    The recording features them as a trio - Marleen Nilsson (Farfisa Compact), Anders Hansson (Hagstrom Kent, Roland SP-404 and Technics SL-1200) and Magnus Bodin (Moog Prodigy and Musser M55).

    Directed by Polish filmmaker Roman Polanski and based on the novel Le Locataire by Roland Topor, The Tenant'is the finale in his acclaimed apartment triology which included 'Repulsion' (1965) and 'Rosemary's Baby' (1968).

    Tracklisting:
    1. Loctaire - intro
    2. Zy And Choule
    3. Church Music
    4. Walls Have Teeth
    5. Labyrinthe
    6. Mouvement Panique
    7. Free Design Kung-Fu
    8. 'Do You Have Any Trouble With Your Neighbours?'
    9. 'If You Cut Off My Head, What Do I Say? Me And My Head Or Me And My Body?'
    10. Dioz Delirium
    11. Everything Is Always Happening
    12. Solitaire
    13. The Bouncing Head
    14. Music Box - outro

    Release Date: 23/02/2018
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  • Death and Vanilla 'To Where the Wild Things Are' - Cargo Records UK

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    Death and Vanilla 'To Where the Wild Things Are'

    £11.99

    2 vinyl editions, one blue one orange both on 160 gm vinyl, both include downloads. 

    Whether their muse lies in 60s sci-fi soundtracks, The Radiophonic Workshop, the prototype electronic sounds of The United States Of America, the retro-futuristic edge of Broadcast, the dream pop ambience of Angelo Badalamenti/Julie Cruise, or the shimmering shroud of Mazzy Star, will doubtless be raised in countless interviews.

    But what matters more is that Death And Vanilla have woven a stunning tapestry that envelops all that preceded them, into a literally head-turning album, of kaleidoscopic proportions... Formed in Malmö, Sweden by Marleen Nilsson and Anders Hansson, Death and Vanilla utilise vintage musical equipment such as vibraphone, organ, mellotron, tremolo guitar and moog, to emulate the sounds of 60s/70s soundtracks, library music, German Krautrock, French Ye-ye pop and 60s psych.

    They revel in the warmth of older analogue instruments to create a more organic sound, each loose wire and off-kilter noise adding to the rich atmosphere. After a handful of successful releases including a debut EP in 2010, their self-titled LP in 2012 – which sold out on pre-order – and a beautifully designed 7” single, the experimental pop duo were invited to compose a live soundtrack for the classic horror film, Vampyr (1932), for the Lund Fantastisk Film festival in Lund. Now, newly signed to Fire, the band return with ‘To Where The Wild Things Are.’

    Named after the Maurice Sendak children’s book, the album is comprised of pop music with a wild, dreamy and experimental edge, celebrating imagination and the ability to travel to stranger recesses of the mind. ‘Where the Wild Things Are’ starts off with some of the most “pop” songs they’ve ever recorded, typified in the sweet and melodramatic “Arcana”, and the classic pop inspired “Time Travel”. Like Sendak’s book of the same name, the album then proceeds into stranger and stranger territory, resulting in some of the most experimental material Death and Vanilla have produced, such as the six minute “Something Unknown You Need to Know” and the machine-like, surf-guitar track “The Hidden Reverse”.

    The band recorded the new album themselves in their rehearsal space, using just one microphone – a 70’s Sennheiser – which they bought at a flea market for a tenner. It is this unconventional recording process that gives Death and Vanilla their unique personality; using a trial and error approach to recording has rewarded the album with a strangeness that would not have otherwise been achievable.

    Creating deliciously enticing soundscapes, full of moody moogs, swirling melodies and breathless vocals, their influences on ‘To Where the Wild Things Are’ are apparent and diverse, ranging from Ennio Morricone to Scott Walker, Tom Dissevelt to Norman Whitfield, The Zombies to Sun Ra, and Bo Hansson to The BBC Radiophonic workshop. 

     

    “Death and Vanilla’s sound is like an elaborate dreamscape composed of foggy visions and mind-altering notions.” Redefine Magazine

    “Death And Vanilla are a Swedish haunted-pop duo who have found themselves caught in the vortex of retro-futurism circa 1969… they've got a good grip on the baroque psychedelia of the United States Of America and Free Design,” Aquarius Records

    Tracklisting:
    1. Necessary Distortions
    2. The Optic Nerve
    3. Arcana
    4. California Owls
    5. Time Travel
    6. Follow the Light
    7. Shadow and Shape
    8. The Hidden Reverse
    9. Moogskogen
    10. Something Unknown You Need To Know
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  • Death And Vanilla 'Vampyr' - Cargo Records UK

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    Death And Vanilla 'Vampyr' Vinyl 2xLP - Black and White Marbled

    £30.99

    500 only 2LP, black and white marbled vinyl, printed inners, gatefold sleeve, download card included is for Cargo Collective Stores Only. A Standard LP and CD release will follow later.

    Now re-issued as a double vinyl package, Vampyr'is full of 'eerie haunted ambience' (©The Guardian), an atmospheric and spaced out 78 minutes that galvanizes Moog, glockenspiel, zither and vibraphonette in a beautiful piece of claustrophobia, a timeless slice of suitably scary sound filled with an unnerving sonic vibe that sticks in the psyche.

    'The retro leaning Scandi duo fire up their Moogs and mellotrons, sonic archaeologists with a hauntological bent.. there is an alluring sexiness to their avant-Kraut Moog-pop excursions.' Uncut

    'Recalling the eerie, haunted ambience of Angelo Badalamenti/Julee Cruise's Twin Peaks soundtrack, Stereolab/Broadcast's experimental vision of 50s lounge muzak/exotica and French 60s pop, or the narcotic country-noir of Mazzy Star.' The Guardian

    Tracklisting:
    Side A:
    1. Vampyr pt.1

    Side B:
    1. Vampyr pt.2

    Side C:
    1. Vampyr pt.3

    Side D:
    1. Vampyr pt.4
    2. Vampyr rehearsals
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