Songs To Love And Die By...

Product Description 8mm wrap us in a thick, smoky, cinematic beauty that has been described as a cross between Portishead, Massive Attack, Aimee Mann and Mazzy Star – but they are definitely a sound of their own. Femme fatal frontwoman Juliette Beavan’s voice portrays an intimate combination of vulnerability and sexuality that one feels almost voyeuristic listening to. Wrapped around her vocals is a smoldering soundscape created by multi-instrumentalist producer/mixer and 8mm co-founder, Sean Beavan. Sean helped forge the Nine Inch Nails sound from stage to studio and is known for the groundbreaking sonics and contagious hooks that have underpinned career-defining records with artists as diverse as NIN, Marilyn Manson, No Doubt, Kill Hannah and Thrice. After quietly self-releasing their debut EP, Opener, through their website, the band quickly generated a local underground buzz in Los Angeles, attracting the attention of the LA Times. Internet word-of-mouth led to tremendous organic support, including critical acclaim from both artists and influential tastemakers like Nic Harcourt of KCRW. Following a string of television placements, 8MM made their cinematic debut on the Â"Mr. & Mrs. SmithÂ" soundtrack with their sultry version of the James Bond classic, Â"Nobody Does It Better.Â" They have maintained a Top 3 position in Trip Hop and Down Tempo on myspace throughout 2005-6, while their plays range from 2,000-7,000 per day. Â"Songs To Love and Die ByÂ" is one of those classic albums that fits comfortably in any record collection. Review Â"Got 8mm and put them on the air the next day.Â" -- Nic Harcourt/ KCRW, March 25, 2005 Â"Part Portishead, part Aimee Mann, part Low, part Massive Attack however 8mm define their own place in modern music.Â" -- The Pulse, April 19, 2006 Â"[Juliette is] a cross between Billie Holiday and Jessica Rabbit.Â" -- What's On In London, April 13, 2005 From the Artist We like creating stories, a soundtrack and narrative that hopefully construct a visual for our listeners. We see the songs that way, as segments and scenes from a story, or several different stories that play like mini movie clips in our heads. What’s more is that the scenes are different depending on who’s listening. It’s what we love about music, how intensely personal it is. We tend to prefer writing about acute moments, whether they’re sexy, sad, exciting, dangerous…the more close and personal they are, the better we like them. Songs to Love and Die By is sort of an installment in the collection of our sordid tales. About the Artist Somewhere in the heat of New Orleans you'll find that life is lived differently. It's a place of ghosts and celebration, a place where music hangs heavy in the air and all the music and all the souls that have ever played it there somehow remain, alive and buoyant in the humidity. The thickness this gives the air slows things down a bit, and when you breathe it in, it soaks through your bones and settles in the marrow. There is an ethereal wave, a pulse really, that you can ride through the chaos. Moss hangs from ancient oak trees that look down on their dark reflections in cracked and wet asphalt. In this city, beneath their gaze, was Juliette, her heels clicking, marking time on the make shift mirror. In this city, she met Sean. Sean had moved from the post industrial age wasteland of Cleveland, Ohio to this haunting land of jazz funerals and brass bands with Trent Reznor and the band Nine Inch Nails. As Trent's longtime engineer, co -producer, and musical director, Sean helped forge the sound of NIN from studio to the stage. Finally having a home base for various projects, Sean and Trent set about building a studio in an old abandoned funeral home in the heart of uptown New Orleans. It was during this time that, being a mortal man, Sean succumbed to the whimsy and sway of a southern girl and met his muse in Juliette. After finishing mixing Marilyn Manson's epic
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Author/Artist:8mm
Binding: Audio cd
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