The video is a bit weird/creepy I think,but the song is nice:)

The new Guy Garvey (Elbow) produced album is out on the 5th July, The Sky At Night. I can't wait for it to come out :D

 

Following 2007's `I Am Kloot Play Moolah Rouge', the album further goes to cement John Bramwell's status as one of the most talented songwriters in the country.

 

Proud Manchester men they may be, but the record is infused with an almost Parisian elegance. Tracks like `It's Just The Night' and `The Moon Is A Blind Eye' reveal a Gainsbourg style of sophistication, but are still punctuated with their own inimitable Northern soul.

 

Opening with the warm, rolling `Northern Skies', it's followed by `To The Brink', a decadently faded show tune, with celestial strings balancing delicately against the kind of poignant musings more typically found at the bottom of a brandy glass.

 

The theatrical instrumentation of `Lately' is lush and impressive, whilst remaining explicit and honest. Renowned harpist Marie Lionheardt provides a delicate accompaniment to the moving narrative in `I Still Do', while `Radiation' touches upon the Beatles' more psychedelic moments of orchestration.

 

A songwriter's songwriter, Bramwell is one of our finest wordsmiths and counts Pete Doherty and and Elbow's Guy Garvey amongst his many fans. Having produced their hugely acclaimed debut album `Natural History' Garvey, alongside bandmate Craig Potter, has returned to produce and mix this sublime ten track collection.

 

With `Sky at Night', expect Kloot's cult status to soar skywards.

:wacky:

I've been meaning to check these guys out for a while since last.fm keeps telling me I should. Listening right now, pretty impressed. :thumbsup:

The Official I Am Kloot Thread

 

I Am Kloot

 

 

I Am Kloot are an English band formed in Manchester, in 1999 by John Bramwell (guitar/vocals), Peter Jobson (bass) and Andy Hargreaves (drums).

 

The band released their debut album, Natural History, in the UK in March 2001 on the Wall of Sound offshoot 'We Love You', followed by the I Am Kloot album in September 2003, on the Echo imprint.

 

Echo had originally planned to release "Proof" as a single to promote the second album, but after agreeing on artwork and a track listing (and commissioning a video featuring Christopher Eccleston, directed by Krishna Stott), the label shelved these ideas and subsequently issued the single as a download only (though a few copies were issued in Europe on the PIAS imprint). This action is commonly seen as the start of the dispute that would subsequently see the band leave the label.

 

The band remained with Echo for their third LP, Gods and Monsters (2005), but left the label citing a lack of financial support after another planned single, "I Believe", was cancelled at short notice. Later that year they issued a limited edition single entitled "Maybe I Should" on November 21, following some of their biggest headlining gigs in the UK, culminating in a show at the London Astoria.

 

In April 2006 "Only Role in Town", was made available for free download to their fanbase, followed by the release of an album of John Peel session tracks in October 2006, recorded over two sessions in 2001 and 2004.

 

I Am Kloot's fourth studio album, I Am Kloot Play Moolah Rouge, was available at gigs in November 2007 as a limited edition of 2000 copies, before going on general release on 14 April 2008.

 

In October 2009, they released a double album compilation of B-sides, rarities and unreleased songs collected under the title of B.

 

I Am Kloot's next studio album, Sky at Night, was released on 5 July 2010 on Shepherd Moon records. The producers of this record are Craig Potter and Guy Garvey from Elbow.

 

The band are one of the acts that have been nominated for the 2010 Barclaycard Mercury Music Prize.

 

What The Press Say

 

- "Of the bands Manchester has spawned recently (Doves, Elbow), the warm and spiky Kloot pack the most clout, despite being the smallest. The big-sounding little trio make the everyday epic and the epic human, smuggling chip-shop cheek into songs of dark wit, grainy texture and often startling emotional power. As dark as they can get, too, their live shows are often joyous, communal affairs, goaded on by the dry wit of frontman Johnny Bramwell." Taken from The Independent newspaper in Britain as one of the 50 best arts events of the autumn 2005.

- "Lyrically, the record's great. Explicit and honest and a master of metaphor, Bramwell is, in his own way, as fine a wordsmith as Morrissey or Stuart Murdoch. There are oddly poetic phrases here, shrouded in a multiplicity of possible meanings, that will nag at you forever. "There's blood on your legs", presses Bramwell in 'Twist'. "I love you". The album's pinnacle, 'Because', suggests this lyrical obscurity is essential. Strip the obscure, imagistic couplets from this meditative, rolling-ocean ballad and it'd be nothing. They help form a mystical, rapturous, staggering declaration of love. And a fitting end to an album that, while not flawless, will stir you into a rare, joyous fervour." An extract of a review in the NME for the debut album Natural History. NME went on to rate the album 8/10.

- "The band's move away from their acoustic sound has given extra depth to their songs and an added dimension to their live performance. Live, they've always been about Bramwell's charisma but the new direction now highlights Peter Jobson and Andy Hargreaves' essential contributions. The new album had only been out for three weeks prior to this gig, but such is Bramwell's ability with a tune that they all sounded like old favourites - 3 Feet Tall and Not A Reasonable Man sitting perfectly well alongside 86 TV's and Because. But it wasn't until the second half that the band let rip, belting out an aptly brooding version of Storm Warning, a lovelorn To You, and a heart-stirringly beautiful Proof. I Am Kloot have been on the brink of greatness for a good while now - if they carry on like this it should be assured." Taken from a BBC review of I Am Kloot playing at The Shepherd's Bush Empire, London 2003.

- "If wishes were horses then beggars would ride, and if critical plaudits were album sales I Am Kloot would be pulled along in carriages made of gold records that would make the Queen literally sh*t with envy. Really special." Time Out

 

What They Say

 

- "It's only in the context of the bleakness and the quite filthy passion at the core of us, that when we present something that naïve and that simple that it really gets its charm and finds its beauty." - John Bramwell

- "There’s a bit of schadenfreude in our stuff, black humour. I hope it gives a feeling of wanting to embrace life, to carry on life, that life is a great thing, and that love is a great thing. It’s just that it comes with some baggage. I feel that we’re optimistic." - John Bramwell (2005)

 

What I Think

 

Such amazing music, a great band. They look set to 'do an Elbow' with their latest album, called Sky At Night, and what a fantastic album it is. You can listen to it all here:

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2010/jul/01/i-am-kloot-sky-night

 

Enjoy and discuss!!

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlmMumA0CMU]YouTube- ‪I Am Kloot - Northern Skies ft. Christopher Ecclestone‬‎[/ame]

 

Gotta post this video :)

Thanks for the merge, this should really be on the Band Index

You're welcome!

I'll add it right now. :escaping3:

Proof is so beautiful, it makes me want to cry everytime I listen to it, just so breathtaking :heart: may have to check out the album too sometime

Proof is so beautiful, it makes me want to cry everytime I listen to it, just so breathtaking :heart: may have to check out the album too sometime

 

Good :)

To me 'Same Deep Water' is their most soothing song and if I actually were emotional in any way, it could probably make me cry too

^What Doritji said.

Early on in 2010 we heard word that our tune, "No Fear of Falling" was to be used in a new film called Everybody's Fine, starring Robert De Niro. We got in touch with the powers that be to make sure the film company had all they needed regarding the tune. In the process of doing this we got in touch with heir director Mr. Kirk Jones. We met Kirk at a festival we did in London and he was a gent. We had arranged to meet after our gig had finished but John was late as he was watching Teenage Fanclub; one of John's favourite bands. When John turned up an hour later, Kirk shouted at him across the backstage area, "De Niro didn't keep me waiting as long as this you bastard!!" and from that moment we got along as friends.

 

We talked about the film and the music Kirk was thinking of using whilst demolishing the rider. Many months later when the film premiered in Manchester, we all went down to see it and meet with Kirk for a catch-up. We sat in The Castle, a fine watering hole on Oldham Street, long into the night talking, and over the course of the evening our friend Rachel Davies came up with the idea of Kirk coming to Berlin to make a short film about Kloot, taking in the gig we were playing and talking about this new album we had just recorded called "Sky At Night".

 

We are very grateful to Kirk and his team coming to Berlin. We had a week to go before coming back from a European tour and Kirk was gracious enough to capture the mood of those three young men with a dream on the road.

 

You can view the films through the below links - Parts 1-4.

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1SFGPddHik]YouTube - ‪I AM KLOOT- BERLIN part 1‬‏[/ame]

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKZM_3Ly2t0]YouTube - ‪I AM KLOOT - BERLIN part 2‬‏[/ame]

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aqe6Mhvk1Z8]YouTube - ‪I AM KLOOT - BERLIN part 3‬‏[/ame]

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wTBohkMWMI]YouTube - ‪I AM KLOOT- BERLIN part 4‬‏[/ame]