Coley Park

Coley Park are purveyors of jangly indie-pop with a country twang and a psychedelic twist. For this, their third album, they’ve come up with an understated gem, their beguiling naivety on tracks such as ‘Said And Done’ coming across like Nick Drake fronting The Pastels. “We’re so peripheral right now”, they lament ..r ‘Of All Faces’ – if this was a just world they wouldn’t be. 8/10 NME YOU CAN BUY RHINOCEROS HERE FOR JUST £9.00 INCLUDING POSTAGE ANYWHERE & YOU CAN BUY OUR 7" EP "QUIET LANES & OTHER STORIES FOR JUST £4.00 INCLUDING POSTAGE"Coley Park boast of melancholic pop potency." Q magazine"Coley Park take Anglo-Americana and pour it through a rickety psych filter, recalling the sun bleached Beechwood Sparks. With very little effort they can turn in the prettily pastoral, the freakily garage-psych and just about all points in between." Rock'n'Reel"Quiet Lanes EP is a very English hook-packed cocktail of pastoral psychedelia and autumnal alt.country. Fuzzy keyboards, gritty trumpet & singalongs but Coley Park will, occasionally, booby-trap your expectations." Zap! Bang!"Engagingly captivation, Rhinoceros is unlike anything else you will hear this year. Light the campfires & embrace the album for a summer sing along. Nick Portnell's bittersweet vocals which somehow manage to sound joyful, disheartened & world weary all at the same time. 'Ghosts In the Sun' bewitched you from the first beat as sorrowful lyrics mesmerizingly embrace a storrytelling role that is both unnerving & yet beautiful, accompanied as has come to be expected be Coley Park's peculiarly unique touch which this time takes the form of a wall of distortion that pierces the song" Room 13 (11/13)"Spiritualized at their peak, this 4 song collection has more variety than most albums these days & Coley Park have to be commended for this release. There's a strong consistency here & it's a package well worth picking up for lovers of Indie, Americana & alternative. Room 13 (11/13) ........................................."Across the Carpet Stars" came out November 2003 and was received well by the press:-"they do a very fine line of marrying skew folk, alt.country and nu-psychedelia, and the results are continuously joyous." - Rock Sound 8/10. "The shimmering melodies, happy-sad voices and mix of Americana and Anglo pastoral-psychedelia" - Syvie Simmons Mojo."Down at the Devilin tree". This was again released on Shadylane in January 2005. With the thumbs up from Dazed and Confused Magazine the Park enjoyed some more good press:-"At times lovely. At others as on the Dr Who through leslie speaker-cones of "Sleeping Apart"- mildy freaky." Uncut "Detailed by studied lyrics, they stir up a woozy psych sound of a high standard." Independent 4/5 "Opener "Milky Moon" is made of blinding Californian sunshine mixed with soulful backbeat..." Rock Sound 810.......'Rhinoceros' available now in all good record shops. Also available for download from ITunes and Napster amongst others.