Just stumbled across this review of one of our new album tracks recently streaming over on our Myspace page. So, can blog will blog:
"...bugger me with a big stick the enigmatic and ever so crucial Kelman are busying themselves putting the finishing touches to their as yet untitled second full length due to do record rack damage sometime around March next year [Hmmm. Approx]. As a sneak peak they’ve posted a rough cut of ‘shut a final door’ - a majestic tear stained beauty wrapped in delicate sheens of shimmer like strums that stab and punch holes in your defences in pretty much the same way as was once the forte of the Flaming Stars though here solemnly peering from the bottom of a hopeless glass of sorrow - undeniably aching stuff - Tindersticks, Wedding Present and Galaxie 500 fans be warned this will seduce, romance, caress and inevitably floor you. A bewitching drunken dandy from the arbiters of pain killer pop."
Mark Barton, Losingtoday
Friday, 29 February 2008
Thursday, 28 February 2008
Album Preview Review
The three track album sampler has started to generate some press, which we'll be posting here as it comes in before moving it to the Press page of the site at a later date. This first review is from the God Is In The TV webzine (& completists please note: earlier promos had a slightly different track listing to the one we're currently sending out):
"Coming home to a Jiffy Bag in practitioner's handwriting lying butter-side down on your doormat can mean only one thing: Wayne Gooderham and his Merry Celeste Men are once again under starters' orders, ready to save the world from the Morrissey-for-project-managers outfits who threaten to overthrow the indie mantle. Kelman, whose debut album Loneliness Has Kept Us Alive was a highly original and critically ignored essay on life for solitary stoics, seem to exist as a kind of Sterling Morrison riff on Schrödinger's Cat - locked away in some tamper-proof strongbox to keep themselves safe from fleas and castration. The new pickings they demo here show they're ready to rescue a genre still mourning the death of Arab Strap, with Gooderham, as ever, remaining as quietly resigned to disaster as a Hereford down-and-out on Selection Week. Commercial Road takes him to the city, and sees its humble narrator stagger sadly down London's most clogged inlet, all the while sending signals to the girl forever in his blind spot. 'Your gentle fists pummeling my defences down/And so with every blow/I say goodbye to pieces of me I never want you to know', he croons in his breathy trill, accompanied by some of the most carefree electric piano you'll find outside of a Life On Mars swingers' party. It's instances such as these that Kelman capture so well - that fleeting flash of resolution hidden in nights of centrifugal stupor; something that makes you beg the barstaff for a Biro. As the bells gong and doormen start to fidget, organs, guitars and cellos come together on the plodding Shut A Final Door, while Kicking Cans All The Way Home, a dayglo dirge dented with dreamy dejection set the night the clocks go back, feels more quaintly English than realising Meridian South East have forgotten to bleep the bloody bits out of a Bank Holiday Bond film. Lyrically, things are definitely well on course for the upcoming second album, and anyone missing the boat this time is depriving themselves of an on-board meal so good you want to cloche it. If music be the food of love, pass the sauce."
George Bass, God Is In The TV
"Coming home to a Jiffy Bag in practitioner's handwriting lying butter-side down on your doormat can mean only one thing: Wayne Gooderham and his Merry Celeste Men are once again under starters' orders, ready to save the world from the Morrissey-for-project-managers outfits who threaten to overthrow the indie mantle. Kelman, whose debut album Loneliness Has Kept Us Alive was a highly original and critically ignored essay on life for solitary stoics, seem to exist as a kind of Sterling Morrison riff on Schrödinger's Cat - locked away in some tamper-proof strongbox to keep themselves safe from fleas and castration. The new pickings they demo here show they're ready to rescue a genre still mourning the death of Arab Strap, with Gooderham, as ever, remaining as quietly resigned to disaster as a Hereford down-and-out on Selection Week. Commercial Road takes him to the city, and sees its humble narrator stagger sadly down London's most clogged inlet, all the while sending signals to the girl forever in his blind spot. 'Your gentle fists pummeling my defences down/And so with every blow/I say goodbye to pieces of me I never want you to know', he croons in his breathy trill, accompanied by some of the most carefree electric piano you'll find outside of a Life On Mars swingers' party. It's instances such as these that Kelman capture so well - that fleeting flash of resolution hidden in nights of centrifugal stupor; something that makes you beg the barstaff for a Biro. As the bells gong and doormen start to fidget, organs, guitars and cellos come together on the plodding Shut A Final Door, while Kicking Cans All The Way Home, a dayglo dirge dented with dreamy dejection set the night the clocks go back, feels more quaintly English than realising Meridian South East have forgotten to bleep the bloody bits out of a Bank Holiday Bond film. Lyrically, things are definitely well on course for the upcoming second album, and anyone missing the boat this time is depriving themselves of an on-board meal so good you want to cloche it. If music be the food of love, pass the sauce."
George Bass, God Is In The TV
Tuesday, 19 February 2008
3 Track Album Sampler
We've finished recording our new album and are now in the final stages of mixing. As I write, 3-track album samplers are winging their way across the UK (& beyond) to various interested parties. If you'd define yourself as an Interested Party then feel free to drop me a line at wayne@kelmanband.com and we'll get a copy out to you. As for the album proper, we're aiming for a Spring release, with more details (track listing, cover artwork, etc) to follow nearer the time. But for now we've started streaming finished tracks on a rotational basis over on our Myspace site. Currently playing is album-opener Untethered. We'll be swopping this for another new track in a week or so. Whatever we get mixed this Thurs basically...
Monday, 18 February 2008
New Look Website
Well, here it is. We've blogged out. Which potentially means we'll be updating this site a lot more frequently than the old site with new news as soon as it comes in. For starters, the Gallery and the Discography pages have been updated. Hardly headline-grabbing stuff I know, but it's early days isn't it. Watch this space...
Wednesday, 13 February 2008
Site Reconstruction
Hello. Please bear with us while our site undergoes a long-overdue complete overhaul in preparation for promotional duties for our forthcoming second album. It'll be back back back and better than ever within the week. Of this we are almost faintly confident. Apologies for any inconvenience.
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