James Vincent McMorrow – We Don’t Eat – Early In The Morning

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Mystery Jets – Radlands – Album Trailer

“We’ve always wanted to make a record in America and after touring Serotonin the time felt perfect to go and do it. Our first three albums were entirely conceived and recorded in London so going out to Austin felt like the furthest place from everything we knew. We arrived with a handful of songs, but one in particular felt like it captured the spirit of why we had come there. It was called Radlands (a fusion of the 1970s Terrence Malick film ‘Badlands’ and Redlands, Keith Richard’s Sussex estate), which is also what we named our studio; a big old wooden house on the banks of the Colorado river.

All we brought on the plane were the guitars on our backs, so we ended up borrowing all this amazing valve gear from an old guy called jack who ran a little studio up in the hills-which is why the songs sound the way they do. In the daytime we wrote lyrics on the porch and in the evenings a family of Deer would gather in the back yard to hear us play. Some nights we drove into town to drink and bring people back to play on the songs. When we arrived home, it was hard to believe any of it even happened. It somehow all felt like a strange dream. But when Dan Carey heard it and invited us down to his studio we listened back to everything and it was all there, it was real. All we were missing were some gospel singers, which he found in the Streatham community ladies choir…

Twelve months on, and we are gearing up to take Radlands on the road. Its been a long time and we cannot wait to see you all again.”

Due for release April 2012

“Our paper du jour is always GF Smith so Oli was chuffed when they asked him to take part in their Naturalis Works #1 series. The series is designed around our conversations with acclaimed craftspeople working in diverse fields. It supports our belief that selecting the perfect materials is a critical part of the creative process.

They made a video for the series following Oli through the design process for the AW12 collection that you can see above. An interesting insight a few days before our AW12 collection is revealed at London Fashion Week.”