Help Stamp Out Loneliness - Help Stamp Out Loneliness

Heart-poundingly beautiful, eponymous debut LP of alluringly seductive songs from Manchester/ Belfast gender symmetric 6 piece. Co-produced by 5th Smith Craig Gannon, it's the album the summer has been waiting for

Where It's At Is Where You Are and Papillons Noir are proud to present the heart-poundingly beautiful, eponymous debut LP from Manchester's sublime sextet Help Stamp Out Loneliness due out in May. With the glorious opening bars of 'Cottonopolis + Promises' (a bittersweet 'Dear John' letter to their surrogate city of Manchester) it becomes increasingly noticeable that HSOL aren't your standard indie-fare. Fronted by the striking, Nico-esque singer D. Lucille against glittering backdrop of transistor organs and jangle-pop guitars, their alluringly seductive songs shield lyrics that flicker between stories of rock-star stalkers (‘Record Shop’) and cringe-inducing alfresco sex (‘Biergarten’); to heartfelt paeans to the days of audio cassettes on ‘Cellophane’ and meditations on the domestic lives of Nico and John Cooper Clarke on the aforementioned ‘Cottonopolis + Promises’.  The first single to be taken from the album is the marvellously catchy ‘Record Shop’, a sinister chanson inspired by Sandra Bernhard’s character from Scorsese’s ‘King of Comedy’. Championed early on by 6 Music’s Marc Riley, Help Stamp Out Loneliness are on track to set the rest of the country alight with their irresistibly sophisticated pop charm. " the most addictive indiepop track I've heard since Camera Obscura's Lloyd, I'm Ready to Be Heartbroken: hi-gloss pop driven by an urgent rush to empathise" - the Guardian.

Tracks :

Cottonopolis + Promises, Angelyne, Record Shop, Ghost With A Hammer in His Hand, Biergarten, Palma Violence, My Window, Me, Sola & C, Cellophane, S*W*I*M, Tracy Tracy, Split Infinitives.

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