MYSTERY JETS ALBUM RELEASE!

The Mystery Jets are proud to announce the release of their highly anticipated album, ZooTime (Dim Mak: 5/8), available exclusively to US audiences only & filled with an array of quintessentially British sounds and stories told in true Mystery Jets fashion; with heart, humor and a whole lot of London soul –
One of the best groups to come out of the UK recently - Johnny Marr
The Mystery Jets are one of Britain's biggest musical hopes - Kele Bloc Party
This band is as good as a band can get for me - Barry Hyde Futureheads
Mystery Jets make me want to sing and dance - Alex Turner Arctic Monkeys

Reminiscent of previous musical pioneers- ones who dare to delve into the mystical catacombs of psychedlia and staying true to the basics of a good rock song, yet flirting graciously with a little bit of pop and a little bit dance and soul. All the right combinations to have audiences singing their hearts out and stomping their feet. These guys are certainly NOT ones to be missed throughout 2007 and you can sincerely trust Magnum on this one folks.

The lads are set to embark on a US voyage from the East coast to the West, and everywhere in-between, showcasing to the masses what makes this band so undeniably special with their riveting live performances and unmistakably catchy tunes.

Canada brought us the Arcade Fire to passionately yell along to and obsess about. America presented The Rapture for us to erratically scream along to. And now we urge you – make room for The Mystery Jets to deliver the goods in your neck of the woods this summer in the US of A.

Comparisons have been made with previous musical marvels such as The Kinks, Early Pink Floyd and David Bowie and as you might expect the Mystery Jets are not a band to sit on their already remarkable achievements and follow just on the successes of their reputation in the UK alone. These lads have taken the daring move of compiling an exclusive US only album entitled ‘ZooTime’ due out May 8th on Dim Mak Records (produced by two of the hottest originators on this planet right now – Erol Alkan & James Ford).

Taking highlights from ‘Making Dens’ and combining it with new tracks produced by indie dance and remix legend Erol Alkan, it’s clear they have created a spectrum of innovative tunes. The record dabbles in diverse sounds ranging from the west coast country pysch stomp of 'Scarecrows in the Rain’ and ‘Inside Four Walls’ to the indie dance punk wig-out of ‘Crosswords’ (recently showcased on the NME compilation CD highlighting the UK New rave movement), to the beautifully intimate ‘Umbrellahead’ that all indicate where this band are headed for 2007.

Dylan, Barrett, Buckley, Adams… have all broken down and defied what it is to stand in one particular genre or be pigeonholed into what’s expected from an act. Whether it be country, folk, electric or soul, very few artists and bands can dictate the way they want things to be and to embrace an assemblage of artists and sounds, creating a community and enabling a scene to thrive from originality and innovative concepts as a vehicle for their music.

The Mystery Jets embody British pop music at its most invigoratingly weird. Already, previous UK singles ‘ZooTime’, ‘You Can’t Fool Me Dennis’, ‘On My Feet’ and ‘Alas Agnes’ have seemed like dispatches from some starry-eyed parallel universe. A universe where Syd Barrett never dropped out but played on with Einzurstende Neubauten, where the irresistible pop of Dexy’s Midnite Runners can happily co-exist with the Krautrock explorations of Can, and where the most forbidding musical forms of the past, like prog rock, are gleefully reinvented in the smash-and-grab spirit of the present.

It seems this band have acted as quite the conduits in the UK music scene, mostly with their Eel Pie Island festival named "The White Cross Revival" where, in a true Dylon-esque fashion they personally selected a cluster of local up and coming bands who are also dear friends and successfully recreated a show for all much like the communal and legendary “Rock and Roll Circus” from 1969.

The show’s featured performances by Acoustic Ladyland, Larrikin Love, Dr. Filth, Jamie T., Lady fuzz, Jeremy Warmsley, The Archive, The Mergatroid, celebrate exactly what it is to NOT take yourselves too seriously and simply bring the masses what they want and quite rightly deserve – some good music and equally good times. All of these London Eel Pie band s have gone on to do equally amazing things in Europe; one in particular would be the Lily Allen-esque songsmith Jamie T who will be venturing on the road with them in the US.

Their debut album in the UK titled ‘Making Dens’ was produced by musical extraordinaire James Ford of the Simian Mobile Disco fame responsible for producing Klaxons debut ‘Myths of the Near Future’ (Rinse/DGC: 3/27) along with fellow Brit invaders Arctic Monkeys with their much anticipated follow-up album due out later this year. Ford is not one to work with just any old band, you see.
This album is sure to add a whole new dimension to Britain’s thriving young rock ‘n’ roll scene. Songs like ‘Purple Prose’ and ‘Diamonds in the Dark’ are a psychedelic head-trip leading each listener to the peaks of joy and depth of ones misery. A journey that music lovers have often taken with a little help from classics such as Berlin era Bowie and the stop start rhythms of Talking Heads.

‘‘Soluble In Air’, recorded in the Eel Pie Island boat yard (site of the Mystery Jets’ gigs) is legendary for fan hysteria and circus-style bizarreness. It weaves together church bells and choral harmonies into a star-surfing fantasia, which is nonetheless quintessentially English and utterly charming.
Mystery Jets are Will Rees (guitar/vocals, 20), Kai Fish (bass/vocals, 21), Kapil Trivedi (drums/vocals, 20), Blaine Harrison (keyboard/vocals, 20) and his father Henry Harrison (guitars/vocals/guiding light, “slightly older”). Will and Blaine met at nursery school at the age of four. Kai’s parents lived with Blaine’s parents in a commune in the Seventies (“we used to share hash cookies together”, notes Henry, a former architect). When Will went to boarding school and Blaine moved to France with his mother, the pair used to communicate via postcards which were, says Blaine, “the early stages of the band. We used to do drawings of all the different line-ups. Henry was always in the band.”

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