Midaircondo
Curtain Call

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What their label says...

- Second album from the Swedish experimental duo Midaircondo, merging
electronic, acoustic, improvisation and pop. Eleven brilliant new tracks of
heavenly, melancholic pop.
- Renowned for their extraordinary live performances, Midaircondo have
succeeded in transferring this imaginative music with experimental visuals,
creating dreamy and evocative soundscapes that leave no one untouched.
- Long awaited follow up to 2005's acclaimed 'Shopping For Images' album,
featuring a guest appearance from The Soundtrack Of Our Lives' frontman
Ebbot Lundberg
- 'just plain irresistible' - The Wire // - 'bright white light, pure
perfection' - Sonic

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"Compared to their former longplayer Shopping for Images [2005], the
romanticism of the new Midaircondo album Curtain Call has a darker
character. The electronics work in a more complex direction, with layers
upon layers of hypnotic sounds and fragmeted rhythms, and through the
darkness another beauty is to be glimpsed. The songs are more precise, and
even more difficult to define by genre terms. Crispy sounds, crystal
harmonies, melodies you recognize vaguely from your dreams…It's beatiful and
you simply got to hear it." Magnus Haglund

The Swedish duo Midaircondo return with Curtain Call , the follow-up to
their celebrated debut album 'Shopping For Images', which received
overwhelming reactions from both critics and audiences worldwide. Curtain
Call is an exceptional pop record - and make no mistake, this is a pop
record; a heady mix of unexpected arrangements, acoustic and electronic
sound sources, experimental music fused with the pair's undeniable pop
sensibilities, makes for an album which draws the listener in instantly.
Reborn as a duo, Midaircondo's wonderful, original improvisation skills and
innovative compositions have been developed into a new and more solemn
sound. Classical instruments and delicate deliveries of poetic lyrics marry
in Midaircondo's electronic world. Quirky field recordings from the band's
travels around the world create backdrops of sounds that invite you to enter
Midaircondo's unique musical sphere.

From the shimmering opening moments of its title track, Curtain Call has
such a peculiar pull, familiar in the most unique of ways. It's hard to
categorize these songs - equal measures of dark and light haunt the listener
throughout. Delicate passages of recognizable instruments are suddenly
thrown into unexpected territories, often revealing the duo at their most
catchy. Within these songs are qualities seldom heard in much modern music;
music which doesn't comfortably fit into one single category. Midaircondo's
marrying of songs with evocative arrangements, plus their ability to gel the
compositional and the improvisational, result in an album of incredibly
forward thinking music - challenging but accessible to all. A guest
appearance from The Soundtrack Of Our Lives' frontman Ebbot Lundberg,
sharing vocal duties on 'Silk, Silver And Stone' is something of standout
track; as lush in production as Blonde Redhead's Misery Is A Butterfly
album, this is a dark, layered song cycle, its hazy descending vocal layers
and strings combine with an arrangement reminiscent of Bjork's 'All Is Full
Of Love', making for a beautifully uplifting and melancholic refrain. At
times the electro allure of Bat For Lashes comes to mind; hook-laden
throughout, Midaircondo's dark vision of electronic pop makes Curtain Call
an album to return to time and time again.

Curtain Call is the first release on Midaircondo's own label Twin Seed
Recordings. The album was produced by Midaircondo, mixed: Christoffer Berg,
mastered: Andreas Tilliander, additional mixing: Paul Bothén and Johan
Forsman.