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Wed 1st The Luminaire and Ever Records presents CORTNEY TIDWELL + Ungdomskulen
Doors 7.30 Currently immersed in recording her follow-up to the glorious 'Don't Let Stars Keep Us Tangled Up', acclaimed Nashville chanteuse Cortney Tidwell is taking a break in order to appear at this special Ever Records night. This will be her only London show for 2007. 'Giddy vocals, etheral drama and starburst guitars. 4/5' (The Times) 'An exhilarating debut from an irrefutably original new talent.' (Mojo) 'Gorgeous.' (NME) Cortney makes music of fascinating beauty: staggering, desolate, country infused laments sprinkled with subtle flourishes of electronics; skeletal, eerie, haunting structures that reach out far beyond their geographic roots. And her voice is even more remarkable, a thing of magic, an arresting and vulnerable instrument that recalls the likes of Leslie Feist, Hope Sandoval and Liz Fraser whilst maintaining a character all its own. 'Tidwell's debut is a banquet for fans of spine-tingling voices carried aloft by ambitious, reach-for-the-skies arrangements' **** (Uncut) 'Unsettles and unnerves in a way that recalls Gillian Welch if Sigur Ros were her backing band. 4/5' (Q) Cortney's debut mini album was released in the UK only in March 2006. Her debut full length album 'Don't Let Stars Keep Us Tangled Up' was recorded during the second half of 2005 in Nashville, and features guest appearances from Kurt Wagner and William Tyler of Lambchop, Jonathon Marx (a former founder member of Lambchop) and Ryan Norris of Nashville electronic act Hands Off Cuba. It was co-produced by Tidwell and her husband Todd. 'One of the greatest and most original sets of songs to be released this year.' (The Sunday Times) 'Celestial harmonies tangle round her haunting voice in songs that seethe with darkness. As eerie as it is exciting.' (The Guardian) 'Look out world: Cortney Tidwell is shockingly talented.' (Touch, Alternative Album of the Month, 5/5) Support comes from Ungdomskulen, the latest addition to the eclectic Ever Records roster. Their music is timeless because it is bigger than time. It’s monumental, epic, glorious and colossal. It’s disciplined, out of control, uncategorisable, definitive. We once called it “the sound of Steve Albini playing progrock disco”. That doesn’t even come close - we’ve also seen words like Black Sabbath, Can, Frank Zappa, The Melvins, The Jesus Lizard, Sonic Youth, Fugazi, Public Image Ltd, The Fall and The Cure thrown around – but it’s the best we can do right now. "Ungdomskullen?” a Norwegian journalist said to us recently. “Man, that band practices hard.”
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