MIEN, the new collaboration between member of The Black Angels, The Horrors, Elephant Stone & The Earlies, have shared the lead single Black Habit lifted from their self-titled LP. The LP is set for release via Rocket Recordings on April 6th. Watch the new Black Habit video via YouTube below or take a listen via Soundcloud and Spotify.
Rocket Recordings are pleased to reveal the self-titled debut album by MIEN, the exciting new four piece band comprised of The Black Angels’ Alex Maas, The Horrors’ Tom Furse, Elephant Stone’s Rishi Dhir and The Earlies’ John-Mark Lapham.
Several traversals of the globe by both plane and audio-file later, the result is an album that sees this quartet transcending their origins whilst maintaining a cohesive unity borne of a desire for outward exploration. John Mark’s vision, as he puts it, was “imagine the Black Angels as Nico in her 80’s industrial phase mixed with George Harrison and Conny Plank.” – true to form, it’s an album that finds equal room for radiant groove-based propulsion and ambient dreamscapes alike – as comfortable with the murky hallucinogenic voyage of You Dreamt as the powerful widescreen sweep of (I’m Tired Of) Western Shouting, yet with songwriting acumen as potent as the production values are expansive and exploratory.
Tracklisting
- Earth Moon
- Black Habit
- (I’m Tired of) Western Shouting
- You Dreamt
- Other
- Hocus Pocus
- Ropes
- Echolalia
- Odessey
- Earth Moon (Reprise)
You can pre-order the LP on cool red/orange vinyl, CD and digitally from MIEN’s Bandcamp.
