Posts Tagged ‘Oh Inhuman Spectacle’

METHYL ETHEL – ” No 28 “

Posted: November 11, 2016 in MUSIC
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Methyl Ethel

Methyl Ethel the Aussie trio turned in a solid debut effort with their far-flung yet fluid album “Oh Inhuman Spectacle” early this year. We haven’t heard from them since then, but today they’ve come with a new single entitled “No. 28″ along with a matching set of visuals. The song picks up where the album left off, but quickly veers into psych-leaning exploration, teasing out the ’70s singer-songwriter vibes that were present but much more subtle on the album. As for the Olivier Groulx-directed black-and-white clip, it features a couple performing a beautifully choreographed dance routine that mixes contemporary and ballroom styles mirroring the genre-melding of song. It’s a video that as simple as it is pretty  Oh Inhuman Spectacle  and ’No. 28’ by Methyl Ethel, out now on 4AD Records:

METHYL ETHEL – ” Twilight Driving “

Posted: May 22, 2016 in MUSIC
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Methyl Ethel - Oh Inhuman Spectacle

This is a highly promising debut. It  plays like a brain chemistry experiment gone horribly right.”
Methyl Ethel makes dream-pop for insomniacs with shadowy, nocturnal music whose surfaces shimmer barely conceals the fidgety, restless soul lurking underneath. After causing a storm at Brisbane’s Big Sound festival late last year, as a trio Methyl Ethel were snapped up by 4AD Records. They come from the same town as Tame Impala and write similarly infectious psych pop, albeit with a chorus-friendly twist on it.
Today marks the global release of “Oh Inhuman Spectacle”, the crepuscular debut album by Australian trio Methyl Ethel. To celebrate, the band have launched a video to their latest single ‘Twilight Driving’, which you can watch here,.

Methyl Ethel are currently on their maiden UK and European tour, with a number of shows in London and Brighton at The Great Escape within the next week.

You can now buy Oh Inhuman Spectacle on LP/CD from the 4AD Store

METHYL ETHYL – ” Oh Inhuman Spectacle “

Posted: December 19, 2015 in MUSIC
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Like a lucid dream while sleeping on silk sheets on a beach in the middle of nowhere, Methyl Ethyl’s Oh Inhuman Spectacle is a smooth, ethereal soundscape of catchy, lilting pop heaven.

Hailing from the musical Graceland that is Western Australia, vocalist/guitarist/songwriter Jake Webb’s androgynous voice floats effortlessly over reverbed guitar and a rhythm section of drums and bass so perfectly entangled with one another it’s hard not to hear a bit of Fleetwood Mac.

There is something addictive in this album as a whole. Each song is connected by some thematic or tonal tissue that begs for repeat listens and the grooves are so hypnotic you lose the feeling of time passing. Methyl Ethyl have continued the tradition of Western Australian bands blowing our minds with something fresh in Oh Inhuman Spectacle and we can’t wait to see what’s next