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Mistletone Records

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About Me

Mistletone is an indie label and touring company, run by Ashhh Miles and Sophie Best, based in Melbourne, Australia and distributed throughout Australia by the Fuse Music Group and in New Zealand by Arch Hill Recordings.

All our catalogue is available via Myspaz Mistle-Mart Mail Order. Just click on any cover art image for mail order happiness! All our titles are just $20 Australian (= approx 19 yankee dollars, 12 euros or 9 quid) including postage anywhere in this big wide world. You can also visit our dinky online store , any old time.

Coming soon to the family Mistletone...

MIST019 Dream Island Laughing Language by Lucky Dragons (June 1)
Lucky Dragons is the brainchild of Los Angeles savant Luke Fischbeck, together with Sarah Rara and other collaborators. Dream Island Laughing Language, the 19th release by Lucky Dragons details the continuing pursuit of a humble and ecstatic, drippy and explosive, smoldering and upset music.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 7/15/2006
Band Website: mistletone.net
Band Members: The Myspaz Mistle-Mart is open for business - just click on any cover image to purchase via paypal or drop into mistletone.net for mail order happiness

& email us anytime: info(at)mistletone.net

Influences:
MIST017 Kes Band by Kes Band
The extraordinary new album from Kes is simply called Kes Band. Recorded by James Cecil of Architecture in Helsinki fame in his Super Melody World studio, Kes Band is a stupendous leap forward from “The Grey Goose Wing”, with the same adventurous spirit but with a more concise and accessible pop sensibility.

MIST018 Alegranza by El Guincho
Mistletone is proud as a parrot to release Alegranza in Australia & New Zealand, in a beautiful glossy digipak. It's a mindblowing mix of afro-beat percussion, calypso harmonies, psych tropicália, world music samplers, doo wop, trance repetition, underwater pop, steel drums and island feeling plus club oriented song structures, uptempo beats and exotica production. Fantástico!

El Guincho video for "Kalise":

MIST016 Devotion by Beach House
The much anticipated new album from Baltimore duo Beach House is called Devotion and it is truly beautiful. The dreamy, hazy lost-world sound of their debut continues here with 11 enchanting new songs (including a Daniel Johnston cover!)

New Beach House videos:

Gila

Heart Of Chambers

You Came To Me

MIST015 Sympathy for the New World by Ross McLennan
Mistletone is proud to be releasing the new album from Melbourne’s home recording pop genius Ross McLennan! Ross has outdone himself with Sympathy for the New World, a sprawling and majestic collection of pop gems both shiny and dark.

Evangelicals

MIST014 The Evening Descends by Evangelicals
Dabbling in glam, slipping in a little funk and soul, drinking the psychedelic Kool-aid, blasting the synths, cranking up the guitars, and wrapping it all up with a dose of pop smarts, The Evening Descends by Oklahoma's Evangelicals is the first great album of 2008! Click on the image above to mail order The Evening Descends and in a fit of generosity we shall send you a copy of the Evangelicals’ mind blowing debut So Gone FREE!

Mistletonia

MIST013 Mistletonia Xmas compilation features Evangelicals, High Places, Pikelet, Ned Collette, Barrage, John Maus, Kes Band, Ross McLennan, The Sticks, Jack Ladder, Hands On Heads, Francis Plagne & Grand Salvo featuring Oliver Mann.... guaranteed to stuff your stocking!

Black Dice

MIST012 Load Blown by Black Dice
Load Blown is the fourth album by Brooklyn’s Black Dice. The beats drip and roll, tar-pit voices sing into an oil can, and the guitars crank like calliope. Some tunes crackle and burble like submerged television, others bump and click along like a Summer Jam concert series from another dimension.

Click here to view the trippy new Black Dice video for "Kokomo"!

Bachelorette

MISTO11 Isolation Loops by Bachelorette
Bachelorette is the alter ego of Annabel Alpers, multi-instrumentalist and shining star of the New Zealand indie music scene. Recorded over a few months in a hut build by her great-grandfather in the wilds of New Zealand’s Canterbury Plains, Isolation Loops was recorded and mixed entirely by Alpers. Cosmic folk and psychedelic pop par excellence!

Check out Bachelorette's extra-terrestrial video for "Complex History of a Dying Star"!

Francis Plagne

MIST010 Francis Plagne - self titled

Fractured kaleidoscope pop sound artist extraordinaire, Francis Plagne, was once described by a wise music critic as having "the sensibility of a middle-aged musicologist and the free-form enthusiasm of a teenage music nerd". His second self-titled album is a collaborative release between Mistletone and Synaesthesia Records . You can download Francis Plagne's 22-minute performance for ABC-TV's "Set" program here

Dan Deacon

MIST009 Spiderman of the Rings by Dan Deacon
Absurdist composer and electronic musician, Dan Deacon, is based in Baltimore, Maryland. Musically influenced by Devo, Talking Heads, Scratch Orchestra, People Like Us, Raymond Scott and Conlon Nancarrow, Dan’s music strives to take modern experimental composition and electronic music out of the circle of the esoteric intellectual gangs and hipster communities, placing it into the more informal "fun time". Mistletone's special edition of "Spiderman of the Rings" includes a demento bonus track TOTALLY BONER EAT SHIT exclusive to the Australian version + super special artwork.

New Dan Deacon video: Okie Dokie

Fabulous Diamonds

MIST008 7" split release with Nervous Jerk

Borne out of a tradition that lies somewhere between classic dub, experimentalism and post punk, Fabulous Diamonds foreground a style (unique) and substance (intriguing) that come together in a hypnotic frenzy. It’s the hit you’ve been waiting for throughout this post post-punk mêlée we live in.

Panda Bear

MIST006 Panda Bear - Person Pitch
The splendiferous, samplicious solo record by Animal Collective's drummer/dreamer. De riguer!!

Video for Panda Bear's "Comfy in Nautica":

Kes

MIST004 - The Grey Goose Wing by Kes: limited deluxe digipak edition of 500 individually numbered copies

Beach House

MIST005 - Beach House by Beach House - Australian edition, enhanced with exclusive video clip for "Master Of None"

Baltimore's Beach House are singer/organist Victoria Legrand and guitarist Alex Scally, a boy-girl duo making lovesick, narcotized rock. Fairground waltzes, ghosted lullabies and woodland hymnals.!

Ariel Pink

MIST001 House Arrest by Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti 5
Maybe the best pop album ever! Every song sounds like a super hit!

MIST003 Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Australian Tour 7"
Two never before released gems from the Ariel Pink vault - "Gates of Zion" b/w "Ghosts". Both tracks will take you places you never knew existed. Very, very, very limited so be quick!

Dig this new Ariel Pink video by Jason Yates!

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My Blog

Beach House Australian tour announced!

Mistletone proudly presents the first ever Australian tour by Beach House, the Baltimore duo of Victoria Legrand and Alex Scally.A devoted cult has sprung up around Beach House following their two gor...
Posted by Mistletone Records on Sun, 01 Jun 2008 02:52:00 PST

Evangelicals: The Evening Descends

From Inpress magazine:From Rave Magazine Brisbane:The nutters have overrun the asylum! Wait, now they’re writing songs& actually that’s good stuffAs those penetrating and fear-filled eyes...
Posted by Mistletone Records on Thu, 27 Mar 2008 05:48:00 PST

El Guincho touring Australia next week!

Just announced! El Guincho is coming to Australia! He will join Architecture in Helsinki on their Like It Or Not tour and play two headline shows in Melbourne and Sydney.Taking cues from afrobeat, cal...
Posted by Mistletone Records on Sun, 17 Feb 2008 05:54:00 PST

Kes Band by Kes Band

The extraordinary new album from Kes is simply called Kes Band. Recorded by James Cecil (ex Architecture in Helsinki) in his Super Melody World studio, Kes Band is a stupendous leap forward from "The ...
Posted by Mistletone Records on Wed, 17 Jan 2007 03:19:00 PST

Ross McLennan: Sympathy For The New World

Sympathy For The New World by Ross McLennan"There is genius among us" - MUSIC AUSTRALIA GUIDE"Ross McLennan excels with this stream of musical consciousness, forging a new strain of languid psychedeli...
Posted by Mistletone Records on Tue, 22 Jan 2008 11:19:00 PST

panda bear = 1 Pitchfork album of the year!

So, the Pitchfork staff writers named Panda Bear number 1 of their Top 50 Albums of 2007!To quote: "With its bright harmonies, loops that veer from lulling to ecstatic, and reverb that lends each soun...
Posted by Mistletone Records on Wed, 14 Mar 2007 03:20:00 PST

Load Blown by Black Dice

mX review:Weekend Australian review:From InPress:From Rave magazine: Extraterrestrial TonesMixing alien sounds and familiar rhythms, BLACK DICE'S new Load Blown LP is their party album, BJORN COPELAND...
Posted by Mistletone Records on Sat, 15 Sep 2007 12:31:00 PST

mistletonia xmas compilation!

True to our name, Mistletone has curated a Xmas compilation CD, Mistletonia. 13 new and exclusive songs inspired by the yuletide spirit! Mistletonia features Australian artists Barrage, Ned Collette,...
Posted by Mistletone Records on Tue, 20 Nov 2007 07:01:00 PST

francis plagne by francis plagne

Francis Plagne reviewed in The Wire!On his second album, Australian bedroom dreamer Francis Plagne redoubles the wide-eyed wonder of its 2005 predecessor 'Idle Bones'. A songwriter whose impatience w...
Posted by Mistletone Records on Fri, 13 Jul 2007 06:51:00 PST

ariel pink pics

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Posted by Mistletone Records on Mon, 23 Oct 2006 04:15:00 PST