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MIEN

by MIEN

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  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    LAUNCH125RE (Rocket Shop)

    'Lucid MIEN' Clear/transparent with Inner Sleeve.

    Includes unlimited streaming of MIEN via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    ships out within 7 days
    Purchasable with gift card

      £19.99 GBP or more 

     

  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    Mini Gatefold Replica CD with Inner Booklet.

    Includes unlimited streaming of MIEN via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    'Deep MIEN' Blue Vinyl

    This Picture is a Mock Up

    Includes unlimited streaming of MIEN via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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    2 remaining
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  • Streaming + Download

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      £6.99 GBP  or more

     

  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    'Fervent MIEN' (Orange vinyl) w/ inner sleeve.
    Debut album.

    Includes unlimited streaming of MIEN via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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    edition of 27 

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  • Cassette + Digital Album

    MIEN's 2018 release

    1. Earth Moon
    2. Black Habit
    3. (I'm Tired of) Western Shouting
    4. You Dreamt
    5. Other
    6. Hocus Pocus
    7. Ropes
    8. Echolalia
    9. Odessey
    10. Earth Moon - Reprise

    Includes unlimited streaming of MIEN via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    MIEN's 2018 release on Rocket Recordings digipak with insert booklet.

    1. Earth Moon
    2. Black Habit
    3. (I'm Tired of) Western Shouting
    4. You Dreamt
    5. Other
    6. Hocus Pocus
    7. Ropes
    8. Echolalia
    9. Odessey
    10. Earth Moon - Reprise

    Includes unlimited streaming of MIEN via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    ships out within 5 days
    1 remaining

      $10 USD or more 

     

  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    Very limited white label test pressings of MIEN's debut album.

    Includes unlimited streaming of MIEN via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    ships out within 5 days
    edition of 5 

      $100 USD

     

  • 'Brooding Red Vinyl' MIEN
    Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    LAUNCH125

    'Brooding Red Vinyl' MIEN

    The Picture is a Mock Up

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    Includes unlimited streaming of MIEN via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

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1.
Earth Moon 05:36
2.
Black Habit 03:06
3.
4.
You Dreamt 04:26
5.
Other 03:54
6.
Hocus Pocus 03:49
7.
Ropes 04:03
8.
Echolalia 02:56
9.
Odessey 04:54
10.

about

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.

The seeds were sown for this collaboration as long ago as 2004, when Rishi Dhir (Elephant Stone) found himself in a chance encounter with Black Angels frontman Alex Maas whilst performing sitar with his former band on a bill at SXSW in Austin with The Brian Jonestown Massacre. Not long afterwards, he would also stumble across electronics guru and producer John Mark Lapham from Anglo-American band The Earlies, via a shared love for one song - the ‘classic sitar banger’ byThe Association, ‘Wantin’ Ain’t Gettin’.

Some years later, another piece of the puzzle came into place, when Dhir was now playing bass with The Black Angels in 2012, and found the band sharing several bills with The Horrors. Thus he made the acquaintance of Tom Furse, and yet another pact was made to work together.

Several traversals of the globe by both plane and audio- le 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 nds 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.

This may have been a record put together at a distance - yet the chemistry between these four gures is manifest amidst a kaleidoscopic series of atmospheres and excursions whereby the fertile songwriting of the golden age of ‘60s psychedelia is transmitted into a transcendental realm above and beyond the second decade of the 21st century.

MIEN are: Alex Maas (vocals, samples, loops), Tom Furse (keyboards, programming), Rishi Dhir (bass, sitar, keyboards) and John-Mark Lapham (keyboards, samples, programming).

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released April 6, 2018

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