bleeding heart narrative

Music:

Member Since: 5/16/2006
Band Website: tartarugarecords.com/tartaruga/artists
Band Members: written and recorded by me. but people who've played live as part of bleeding heart narrative... alastair bailey, benjamin gaymer, clarissa carlyon, henry barrett, jan moys, john m f casey, max bondi, michael wright, rebecca mears, thea barrett
Influences: words, noise, the woods, tapes, grapefruits, crumbling cities, skeletons, old books, the sea, drawing, cheap red wine and frantic conversation, torn paper, tea, cogs and clockwork, the lump in your throat, clouds, rust, the minor rush from the first drink when everything is all possibility, my friends, woodsmoke, the catskills, retro-futurism, cellos, reykjavik, crying til you’re spent, rain, dusty attics, comics, ginger, writing on my hand, the confused re-entry into the real world after seeing good films in the cinema, empty beaches, old vinyl, teenage sentiment, faded british seaside holiday destinations, drifting off, notebooks, norwegian mountains, chewing-gum marks on the pavement, busratch, snow, graphite, creaky floorboards, sputtering candles, polaroids, a numb face from the cold, caffeine, david attenborough, canary wharf at night, torn skin on your fingers, fairytales, tree silhouettes, quiet, coney island, astronomy, wilderness, overnight trans-siberian train journeys, victorian adventure stories, science i barely understand, pin-badges, a lack of irony, a diy ethic, the cusp, and everything else and everything else and everything else
Sounds Like:

"Layered cellos, pianos and all mixed together with a general eerie drone. It's dark and light....happy and sad..... incredibly emotive and one one of the most interesting records we've heard here in a long long time. It pricked up the collective office ears which is rare thing these days. Will appeal to fans of Hood, Stars of The Lid, early Constellation releases. This is seriously good." - NORMAN RECORDS

"A constantly evolving autumnal orchestra of layered pianos, guitars, cellos and restrained noise" - BE PREPARED

"This has to be THE find of 2008! Bleeding Heart Narrative has constructed a unique, haunting and compelling album. We can't recommend this highly enough!" - COLD SPRING RECORDS

"a multi-layered construction, with the smattering of vocals fighting to make themselves heard amongst bursts of caustic noise, dense electronics, and some clever classical elements... It works, not just because of the fastidiousness of the beast’s creation , but by virtue of the way it is sewn together by the aching sense of sadness which pervades the music and the lyrics (and the track titles, the album title and the band name…)" - MAPSADAISICAL

"It’s always refreshing to come across an act who are happy to chuck out the rule book and come up with something constantly shifting, surprising and eclectic, whilst not being willfully obtuse... This is a seriously good record – way beyond promising" - MUSIC MUSINGS AND MISCELLANY

"Every once in a while something extraordinary manages to come my way with a power that is hard to deny. Such is the case with this London-based band's debut album, a stratospheric collection of musically mature, beautifully crafted, and subtly layered compositions that refuse to remain earthbound... I felt that the mundane world was left far behind, and I was floating in the skies of another world entirely... This is a marvellously complex album, displaying a compositional maturity usually garnered through decades of experience and learning... A startling album that certainly in my view stands head and shoulders above many a debut." - BRAINWASHED
Record Label: tartaruga records
Type of Label: Indie