HOLLYWOODFUN DOWNSTAIRS - The Mancunian Swing

HOLLYWOODFUN DOWNSTAIRS - The Mancunian Swing

Available on CD and digitally from August 23rd 2013

Screw Britannia – where as many believe the days of Britpop and the likely lads and ladettes of “Cool Britannia” was just all hedonism and larking around, how quickly they forget for every upper, there is always a downer. The Mancunian Swing, Hollywoodfun Downstairs' debut album, very much captures the good and the grim...

Cue tracks that deal with booze, brawls and barbiturates (and stronger, as the listener lets the album course through their system); be it the psychedelic, robot-rock of singles “Colours of Soho” and “Fuzzy” or anthematic album opener “Is The City?”

However it's strength as an album lay in the sharp juxtaposition of emotions; elated to disgruntled. Disgruntled to despondent. Despondent to the typical fist-fight outside the club and subsequent post-pub activities no matter how extreme. It's bipolar, in a sense, but all testament to the mood swings we've all felt on a night out – they happen to be first hand experiences of vocalist/guitarist Kurt Williams.

Meticulously recorded by James Goldsmith and mastered by Mike Gibson, the incredible talent behind fellow MUZAI artist Sunken Seas' Null Hour, “The Mancunian Swing” pulls no punches. A seemingly uncanny mix of At The Drive In-meets-Queens of The Stone Age, it's something a little different from the MUZAI roster – and ultimately, something quite exciting to a newer audience to the label.

Is The City?
Colours of Soho
Troubled Times
216
Lucid Minds
Inter-Relation Sick!
Fuzzy
Looking Like Jarvis
This Circus Believes
Crackhouse

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