NEWS

 

NIGHTINGALE


"a record that will haunt you" Q ****

"...thrilling collection of dark psych-pop and twisted folk" The Times ****

"Fabulous in every way" Clash 8/10

"one deliciously dark package" The Fly 4.5*

"teemingly inventive arrangements find the common ground between garage psychedelia, folktronica and medieval dream poetry" The Observer

"weatherbeaten new wave, found sounds and gauzy longeurs" Word

"...thrilling and beautiful." 8/10 Drowned in Sound

"Each listen treats you with a new experience, sometimes eerie, sometimes uplifting- always brilliant." Artrocker ****

 

THIS NIGHT


'This Night' the latest single from Nightingale finds Erland & The Carnival doing what they do best – pulling in a range of disparate influences to create something totally unique.

The lyrics are shamelessly borrowed from Morrissey and Lionel Bart's Oliver. The music is part
the Strokes first album, part Television and part Banana Splits theme music.

On the B-side is a new track 'Deep In Love', a traditional song collected by Cecil Sharp
and Peter Kennedy amongst many others and is about a girl that falls pregnant and
drowns herself because she can never be with the father as he has gone off to sea… but then he
comes home. The usual tragic way of the folk song.

Due for digital release on 25th July.

 

MTV IGGY

Here's a video the chaps made for MTV-Iggy at SXSW, in an abandoned shop in Austin, Texas.

all.mtvworldverticals.com/videos/erland-and-the-carnival-springtime/

 

SPRINGTIME VIDEO

As daffodils bloom and lambs gambol in the fields, there can be no better time to announce that the next single to be taken from Erland & The Carnival’s 2nd album, Nightingale, is Springtime released on May 16th. Here is the new video directed by Chris Lee & Paul Storrie.



As is a theme of the new album, this is a song with a dark heart, a tale of escape propelled by minor chords, expectant drums and cascading synths. And as with many Erland & The Carnival songs, its root is in the folk music of the past. The sound of Springtime is reflective of the new direction taken in Nightingale. Coming just a year after their eponymous debut, the darkly poppy new album saw Erland & The Carnival return with something that’s more direct, more electronic and more twisted. Nightingale was recorded deep in the bowels of a ship moored at Embankment on the river Thames, where dehumidifiers never did manage to remove the dank smell and the sounds of water created an unmistakable ambience. When cabin fever inevitably set in, they’d poke their heads above board and watch the city commuters buzzing about; the real world rushing by as the trio spent hours in darkness in search of sounds and songs.
 

 
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14.08.2012 Berlin, Heimathafen (DE) - Burning Eagle Fest 5 Jahre Bogak

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