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On the first, blessed Halloween in living memory that we haven’t been subjected to a new Saw flick more grisly than a Gaddafi corpse shot, let’s hope The Miserable Rich are here instigating a far more sublime new franchise. Their third album Miss You in the Days is the Brighton chamber pop outfit’s ghost story collection – its sleeve a gathering of amorphous spectres in snow that’ll no doubt be trotted out one day as ‘proof of paranormal activity’ on Most Haunted; its sounds the fragile broodings of piano, viola and violin echoing – literally – around a haunted pub attic in the grounds of Blickling Hall where the album was recorded within earshot of the headless ghost of Anne Boleyn. Its themes: the inhuman and incorporeal – poltergeists, possessions, apparitions and other such banes of the weak-minded and gullible – rendered in wonderfully human fashion. Like Beirut hosting a Wuthering Heights theme Halloween party, it’s a record that grows goose-bumps in the night.
Tied up in loss, longing and lust, the spookiness of Miss You in the Days is in the delivery rather than all-out horror songs, the lyrical equivalent of passing peeled grapes around the campfire saying "these are the old lady’s EYES…" Under Glass evokes the image of a she-phantom trapped beneath glass in order to charmingly regale her with the respect she never knew in life. The ghoulish night-walkers of True Love expound the frustrations that, y‘know, ectoplasmic orbs have feelings too. Laid Up in Lavender envisions a fiend-infested beirkeller cabaret and the wonderfully rousing Ringing the Changes is a masked ball in Peter Jackson’s vision of Susie Salmon’s limbo. With added sexy vampires, obviously – hell, a record as rich and moving as this surely deserves some small sliver of the vampire money, right?
And so much more. It deserves to make The Miserable Rich leading players in a chamber pop movement in rude health off the back of I Am a Bird Now, The Flying Club Cup, Let England Shake and Patrick Wolf’s Lupercalia. It deserves a Mercury Prize nod. And it deserves to eat your soul on the long, burning road to Hell. Sorry, did my eyes turn blood red just then…? --Mark Beaumont
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
I don't usually read album reviews as a rule, but for the third Miserable Rich production, I thought I'd have a look to see other's opinions. The NME seemed a good punt, 5 out of 10 our reviewer told me, and generally had little positive to say. Being big enough to make my own mind up on my musical tastes, I dismissed our reviewer as having a bad day, possibly lost a wheel from his skateboard or some such teenage travesty. After all, this was the same music publication that gave Fionn Regan's third long player a slating, and they horribly missed the mark there as well.
To be fair, there was no turning back as I'd already bought the album several months' in advance, part of the Pledgemusic campaign. Not disappointed in the slighest with my investment, this is the band's finest moment to date, with all the tracks being inspired by a ghostly tale of some description.
I was fortunate enough to see the album played live on the day of release at Blickling Hall in Norfolk, where it was also recorded, and it added something to proceedings knowing the background for each track. An idea for the website me thinks, the stories were as facinating as the songs themselves.
Imperial Lines, True Love, and Ringing the Changes are up there with the band's best pieces, but the album as a whole feels like a group all pulling in the right direction, creating a beautifully unique sound which should be heard by a larger audience than those already converted.
To be fair, there was no turning back as I'd already bought the album several months' in advance, part of the Pledgemusic campaign. Not disappointed in the slighest with my investment, this is the band's finest moment to date, with all the tracks being inspired by a ghostly tale of some description.
I was fortunate enough to see the album played live on the day of release at Blickling Hall in Norfolk, where it was also recorded, and it added something to proceedings knowing the background for each track. An idea for the website me thinks, the stories were as facinating as the songs themselves.
Imperial Lines, True Love, and Ringing the Changes are up there with the band's best pieces, but the album as a whole feels like a group all pulling in the right direction, creating a beautifully unique sound which should be heard by a larger audience than those already converted.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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Album number three from Brighton's The Miserable Rich, incorporates a much fuller sound over previous two outings "Twelve Ways to Count" and "Of the Flight and the Fury." Recorded in Britain's most haunted stately home, Blickling Hall a Jacobean Palace and birthplace of Anne Boleyn, themes of ghosts, love and death are particularly apt. After the extremely personal and intense aspects within "Of the Flight and the Fury" the latest topics may suggest a further collection of subdued and pessimistic songs, although musically at least, this proves far from the case. "Miss You in the Days" uncovers The Miserable Rich in more buoyant, almost carefree mood, even their use of the freezing cold mansion in February for the creative process, does little to discourage.
Opening track "Laid Up in Lavender" finds James De Malplaquet's exquisitely controlled vocals adopting an almost cheeky chappie tone, backed with the usual acoustic guitar, cello, violin and double bass, although additional drums provide substantial authority to the overall ambience. Moving through the 11 song collection, we discover, again for the first occasion, the band incorporates electric guitar within the mix, further enhancing the more grandiose characteristics involved.
The first single, "On a Certain Night" available from October 24th highlights everything wonderful about the chamber pop outfit, jaunty melody and rhythms lull the listener into a false sense of security, belying the sinister subject matter of sexual and supernatural possession. In most instances, "On a Certain Night" would adopt centre stage, instead, that position reserved both physically and metaphorically for "Ringing the Changes" an absolute tour de force of a song. A tinkling piano opens, De Maplaquets gorgeous, plaintive vocal joins before a slow build through the instrumentation to a climactic orchestral peak, prior to everything dropping away, leaving a sustained guitar note, revealing a lilting melancholic ending.
With "Miss You in the Days" The Miserable Rich have taken a huge leap forward, producing their most compulsive and impressive work to date. An album which would grace any collection.
Buy, buy, buy.
Opening track "Laid Up in Lavender" finds James De Malplaquet's exquisitely controlled vocals adopting an almost cheeky chappie tone, backed with the usual acoustic guitar, cello, violin and double bass, although additional drums provide substantial authority to the overall ambience. Moving through the 11 song collection, we discover, again for the first occasion, the band incorporates electric guitar within the mix, further enhancing the more grandiose characteristics involved.
The first single, "On a Certain Night" available from October 24th highlights everything wonderful about the chamber pop outfit, jaunty melody and rhythms lull the listener into a false sense of security, belying the sinister subject matter of sexual and supernatural possession. In most instances, "On a Certain Night" would adopt centre stage, instead, that position reserved both physically and metaphorically for "Ringing the Changes" an absolute tour de force of a song. A tinkling piano opens, De Maplaquets gorgeous, plaintive vocal joins before a slow build through the instrumentation to a climactic orchestral peak, prior to everything dropping away, leaving a sustained guitar note, revealing a lilting melancholic ending.
With "Miss You in the Days" The Miserable Rich have taken a huge leap forward, producing their most compulsive and impressive work to date. An album which would grace any collection.
Buy, buy, buy.
Format:Audio CD
I saw this band live at a festival and really enjoyed their music, the album lived up to my expectations and has become a firm favorite on my playlist. I find The Miserable Rich to be both unique and extremely talented musicians.
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