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Mystery Jets release their impressive third album Serotonin 6 July 2010 in The Mystery Jets
This week sees the release of Serotonin, the new album from the Mystery Jets.
Serotonin sees the band strip away much of the excess on their lovelorn, warmly-received 2008 album Twenty One, Serotonin sees the Mystery Jets mapping out entirely new musical territories: the synthesizer-fuelled perfect pop of Dreaming Of Another World; It’s Too Late, which begins as an aching soft-rock ballad before unexpectedly heading somewhere infinitely weirder; the dark, hallucinatory grind of Lorna Doone. You can hear echoes of ELO, 10CC, Fleetwood Mac and Supertramp rubbing up against the band’s own idiosyncratic, very British, occasionally rather creepy psychedelic...
Rough Trade Presents: The Serotonin Sessions 16 June 2010 in The Mystery Jets
As part of a new site feature we filmed the Mystery Jets in a house by the River Thames in Hammersmith, London for a session called The Serotonin Session.
The band played four tracks from their forthcoming album Serotonin including Serotonin, Girl Is Gone, Melt and Too Late To Talk.
The first of these session videos premiered onThe Guardian.co.uk and is now ready to watch below. We’ll be unveiling a new clip every week until the album is released on July 5th.
Mystery Jets – Serotonin:
Pre-order Serotonin on LP and CD now from MysteryJets.com and receive two exclusive 7inch singles
Watch: Mystery Jets perform for Pocket TV 11 June 2010 in The Mystery Jets
Mystery Jets performed a special acoustic version of Dreaming Of Another World (complete with Stylophone!) and a cover of forthcoming Gorillaz single On Melancholy Hill for Pocket TV. Watch it here:
Biography
The Mystery Jets formed in the early ’90s when the group’s shock-headed frontman, Blaine Harrison, was only 12. The band was initially called the Misery Jets, in honor of the Heathrow-bound jets that habitually roared over their native Eel Pie Island, but they changed their name when Blaine (who, again, was very young at the time) misspelled ‘misery.’
The Mystery Jets were essentially a family project, with Blaine on drums, Blaine’s dad, Henry Harrison, on bass, and Blaine’s friend William Rees on guitar. Henry eventually switched from bass to guitar, Kai Fish joined up as the group’s bassist, and Blaine switched from drums to keyboards. The group tried out a drum machine and a local kid named Max before finally latching onto drummer Kapil Trevedi.
Their first ‘Five Tracks’ EP, recorded soon after Trevedi joined the group, was released on 679 Records in 2005, and their first full-length album, ‘Making Dens’, was released the following year. Their second album proper, ‘21’, was released on 679 in March 2008 with dance producer Erol Alkan at the helm and minus Harrison Snr for the first time.
In January 2009 the Mystery Jets signed to Rough Trade. At the time co founder Geoff Travis spoke for us all here when he excitedly stated that, “The Mystery Jets are in my opinion the best British group since the Libertines and I have been wanting to work with them for a very long time, so I am delighted they have chosen to join the roster.” Being a band that grow from strength to strength with steady certainty, we can’t wait for their first Rough Trade release as it’ll no doubt become their best work to date.
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