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Midnight Masses Announce Deal With Team Love To Release Rapture Ready , I Gazed At The Body EP

 

 

 

 

After falling in love with the hazy neo-soul and 60s revivalism of Rapture Ready, I Gazed At The Body , New York 's own Team Love has partnered with Collect Records to deliver Midnight Masses ' 4-track debut to the world this winter. The original release date of November 10 th will now shift to December, with the digital version of the EP slated for 12/8 and the vinyl set for 12/15 .

 

The news comes on the heels of The Fader 's premiere of “Walk on Water,” the EP-opening slow-burn featuring TV on the Radio 's Jaleel Bunton . Bunton's bandmate Gerard Smith produced the entirety of Rapture Ready , which also features contributions from Katie Eastburn , Here We Go Magic 's Peter Hale , and Kevin Allen and Conrad Keely of Trail of Dead . In late 2008, Trail's Jason Reece founded Midnight Masses alongside Autry Fulbright , who enlisted the help of full-time bandmates Eric Rogers  (guitar, vocals),  Miyuki Furtado  (drums, bass, guitar, vocals) and  Destiny Montague  (guitar, vocals, percussion). Midnight Masses were set to celebrate the now December-bound record's release this week with a pair of New York shows – one with intricate-indie Brooklynites Mon Khmer and another supporting Art Brut with Floridian buzz beneficiaries Surfer Blood .

 

Midnight Masses Shows:

11-10 New York , NY – Pianos (w/Mon Khmer)

11-13 Brooklyn , NY – Brooklyn Bowl (w/Art Brut, Surfer Blood)

 

Rapture Ready, I Gazed At The Body  Tracklisting, Audio:

01 Walk On Water

02 Preacher's Son

03 Desperate Man

04 Do You Believe In Rapture? (Sonic Youth Cover)

 

LINKS:

 

http://www.myspace.com/midnightmassesandtheendofdays

 

 

 

Midnight Masses - "Burial Song / Debtor's Song" (Live on Radio K's SXSW Broadcast) from Radio K on Vimeo.

 

What The Press Is Saying About Midnight Masses:

 

 

“Heaven is an appropriate title for such an enlightening, beautifully lush set, with washy guitars and dozens of vocals, recalling acts like Spiritualized.” -  Billboard  

 

 “As if the religiosity of down south collided with a full throttle rock band creating a haunting spiritually engrossing psychedelic rock experience.”  –  The Tripwire  

 

 “Brooding and open, daring and depressing and inside of it there's no escaping”  

-  Daytrotter  

 

"Their washed out guitars and haunting melodies aren't to be missed." - CMJ

 

 

 

 

 

 

WeirdMusic.net - Midnight Masses EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW:

 

 

- Do you Like/Write Weird Music ??

A couple of our favorite weird musicians are Joe Meek, CAN, & Animal Collective

 

- When and where did your experience in music start?  

Midnight Masses started in a hospital, then went to Texas .  We're perpetually returning and never going back. 

- What are you currently working on and what are your plans for the rest of the year ?

  Lots more music, a companion EP to Rapture Ready , and our debut full length. 

- What do you consider your greatest inspirational sources in music ?  

                LSD ( Lysergic acid diethylamide  )  & LDS (Latter Day Saints)

 

- Please describe your personal studio for us...

 A 160 year old haunted house.

 

- What are your favorite readings ?  

World War Z, The Psychic Soviet

 

- In your opinion, what role does the third sector, public and non- 
  profit entities; have for music on the Internet ?

  Neither the third sector nor the internet has anything to do with the inspiration or composition of our music. 

- Who is Wacky Jacky ? 

There's a little bit of Wacky Jacky in all of us. 

 

-  Porn or Horn ?

 Bjorn .

 

- Should we Fork you twice or it's beter to Funk you once ?  

It's better to flunk us three times. 

 

-  Are you religious ? 

"Fixed in stained glass but not religious" - Fugazi 

 

- Anything else ?

 I sure hope so

 

 

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