Mistletone

Hello everyone!

We’ve just had six weeks following the sun, hanging with elephant seals, sea otters, rattlesnakes, chipmunks and drain kitties, but our feet are firmly plonked back in frosty Melbourne and we have a plethora of good musical happenings awaiting. So here is the latest in the world of team Mistletone…….

MISTLEMART NINJA MAIL ORDER SALE
For a limited time we are slashing the prices of our catalogue. Oh my! Also, for the first time ever, we’ve put some of our tour posters up on the mail order catalogue. CD prices start at $5 and postage is free anywhere in Australia. It’s the perfect time of year to curl up with a new album, so if there are any titles in our catalogue that you have been meaning to check out, now is the time to pick up a Mistletone release or four. Go to ye olde Mistlemart and shop ’til you drop.

PANDA BEAR SINGLE
Tomboy b/w Slow Motion is the new single for Animal Collective’s Panda Bear. This will be the first taste off his upcoming Tomboy album, which Mistletone is chuffed to be releasing in this part of the world. We have a very few copies of the Tomboy b/w Slow Motion 7″s to sell via our website; quantities are super limited, so be quick. Look out for Tomboy later in the year.

TORO Y MOI SINGLE
From Tuesday July 20 we will have a limited number of copies of Leave Everywhere/First Date, the new 7″ single from South Carolina’s one man bliss/pop phenomenon, Toro Y Moi. These new summer jams will surprise those of you familiar with Toro Y Moi’s debut album Causers Of This. You’ll find no electronic sounds or beats here.  These songs have a classic early rock n roll feel to them with only electric guitar, bass, drums, and xylophone(!) as the instrumentation. Yet one more facet of the Toro Y Moi sound (and there are more!), these tunes will prepare listeners for Toro Y Moi’s next full length, which will have yet another completely new vibe.

ROBERT SCOTT (THE BATS)
September 4 will see the release of Ends Run Together, the new solo album from Dunedin legend Robert Scott. We all love and know Bob from his work in The Bats and The Clean (not to mention countless side projects), and this new album will knock your socks off! Pop hooks and sonic explorations combine to make something very special. To celebrate the release of Ends Run Together, Melbourne folks can catch Bob doing a very special solo show at The Empress on Saturday September 4 with support from Mia Schoen, Aktion Unit and Scale Models. Tickets on sale now.

PRINCE RAMA
We’re psyched to welcome US three piece Prince Rama to the Mistletone family. We were lucky enough to see these guys perform last month in NYC and our minds were gloriously blown. All three members of the band were raised on a Hare Krishna commune in Florida, educated at art school in Boston, and now making noise and living in Brooklyn. Their new album Shadow Temple (out September 11) is an epic shrine of swirling synths, pulsing guitars, and thunder drums. An ethereal chorus of voices and anthemic melodies create a reverb-washed mine of sonic artifacts drawing from southeast Asian rituals, krautrock legacies, chopped and screwed homages, hallucinatory operas, and dance hall psychedelia. Recorded in Kurt Vonnegut’s grandson’s cabin and a 135-year-old haunted church with the help of Rusty Santos and Animal Collective members Avey Tare and Deakin, Shadow Temple offers itself as a sincere porthole into a mysterious realm that defies material understanding.

KES TRIO
We are eternally in thrall of the music made by Karl E Scullin aka KES, and this is true more than ever of the very rad new Kes Trio album Black Brown Green Grey White (release date September 18). A stunning document of Kes Band’s current and undeniable incarnation as a trio (KES, Lehmann B. Smith and Julian Patterson), Black Brown Green Grey White is a yin-yang dichotomy of contemplative, melodic beauty and inward-gazing ballads juxtaposed with jerky dischord, banshee yells and whirlwind anti-rock riffs. Compelling, uncompromising and beautiful, Black Brown Green Grey White will surely hold you spellbound. The Melbourne launch of Black Brown Green Grey White will be at East Brunswick Club on Saturday, September 25. Melbourne folks should also check out the Two x Two photo exhibition currently showing at Abbotsford Convent’s C3 Contemporary Art Space. It’s an amazing collaboration between Karl Scullin and Lauren Bamford displaying their remarkable portraits of many familiar faces from Melbourne’s musical and creative communities. It closes this Sunday and it’s free entry so check it out if you can.

TOUR RUMOURS
Mirah, The Verlaines, Beach House and so many more that we can’t even whisper about right now, so look out for news about exciting tours galore this summer!

Thanks for reading & listening. Til next time!

♥ TEAM MISTLETONE