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Mandrake Handshake - Earth-sized Worlds [CD]

Mandrake Handshake - Earth-sized Worlds [CD]

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Mandrake Handshake announce debut double-heavyweight vinyl LP & CD 'Earth-Sized Worlds', set for release February 21st via cult indie label Tip Top Recordings (Japanese Television).

The concept tying together every last note and lyric of 'Earth-Sized Worlds' - the debut album from the London/Oxford self-dubbed 'Flowerkraut' collective Mandrake Handshake - is an awfully simple one: 'Welcome to Space Beach'. A mantra to unite under one aesthetic roof the various creative compulsions of this complex, multi-limbed organism - varying at any one time between 7 to 10 members - it's an album that conspires the alienating vastness of the cosmos against the warm nostalgias of home. Full of surprise, leftfield turns and closeted experimentations, tape-soaked Brazilian Sambas morphs into Kosmische Kraturock crusades, and shimmering avant-pop electronics melt into sweetened psychedelic bliss... "Welcome to the Spacebeach - the new era of the Mandrake. Here, where the sea joins the sky, and where the trees touch the stars and where we will have you stay a while".

With news of their biggest UK headline show to date at London's No90 (Hackney Wick) on February 28th next year, Mandrake Handshake are certainly firing on all cylinders as their debut album release draws ever closer. Having already showcased lead singles 'Charlie's Comet', 'King Cnut' and 'The Change And The Changing'as they experiment further with their eccentric brand of 'Flowerkraut': a hedonistic, brain-frying feast of krautrock, art-pop and psychedelia.

Varying anywhere between 7-10 members - including a dedicated, flamboyant tambourine shaker - their pristine, multi-limbed spectacle of a live show has journeyed up and down the UK and EU in recent times. With multiple headline tours to their name, including a sold-out show at London's iconic 100 Club and headline slot on the BBC Introducing stage at Truck Festival earlier this year, the group have already ticked off slots at the likes of Wide Awake, Green Man and Manchester Psych Fest,.

With two critically acclaimed EPs already to their name - 'Shake The Hand That Feeds You'(released via Nice Swan Records) and 'The Triple Point of Water' - Mandrake Handshake's long list of press champions includes The Independent, The i, NME, Loud & Quiet, Dork, DIY, So Young, The Line Of Best Fit, Rough Trade, Clash, Crackand Guitar World, as well as extensive BBC 6 Music (Deb Grant, Don Letts, Gideon Coe), Radio X (John Kennedy)airplay, and being crowned BBC Introducing Oxford/Buckinghamshire's Band of the Year.

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Record Collector / Uncut / Wonderland / Dork magazine / The Line Of Best Fit / Hard of Hearing / Blow Up Magazine / Shindig! / Electronic Sound

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Mandrake Handshake announce debut double-heavyweight vinyl LP & CD 'Earth-Sized Worlds', set for release February 21st via cult indie label Tip Top Recordings (Japanese Television).

The concept tying together every last note and lyric of 'Earth-Sized Worlds' - the debut album from the London/Oxford self-dubbed 'Flowerkraut' collective Mandrake Handshake - is an awfully simple one: 'Welcome to Space Beach'. A mantra to unite under one aesthetic roof the various creative compulsions of this complex, multi-limbed organism - varying at any one time between 7 to 10 members - it's an album that conspires the alienating vastness of the cosmos against the warm nostalgias of home. Full of surprise, leftfield turns and closeted experimentations, tape-soaked Brazilian Sambas morphs into Kosmische Kraturock crusades, and shimmering avant-pop electronics melt into sweetened psychedelic bliss... "Welcome to the Spacebeach - the new era of the Mandrake. Here, where the sea joins the sky, and where the trees touch the stars and where we will have you stay a while".

With news of their biggest UK headline show to date at London's No90 (Hackney Wick) on February 28th next year, Mandrake Handshake are certainly firing on all cylinders as their debut album release draws ever closer. Having already showcased lead singles 'Charlie's Comet', 'King Cnut' and 'The Change And The Changing'as they experiment further with their eccentric brand of 'Flowerkraut': a hedonistic, brain-frying feast of krautrock, art-pop and psychedelia.

Varying anywhere between 7-10 members - including a dedicated, flamboyant tambourine shaker - their pristine, multi-limbed spectacle of a live show has journeyed up and down the UK and EU in recent times. With multiple headline tours to their name, including a sold-out show at London's iconic 100 Club and headline slot on the BBC Introducing stage at Truck Festival earlier this year, the group have already ticked off slots at the likes of Wide Awake, Green Man and Manchester Psych Fest,.

With two critically acclaimed EPs already to their name - 'Shake The Hand That Feeds You'(released via Nice Swan Records) and 'The Triple Point of Water' - Mandrake Handshake's long list of press champions includes The Independent, The i, NME, Loud & Quiet, Dork, DIY, So Young, The Line Of Best Fit, Rough Trade, Clash, Crackand Guitar World, as well as extensive BBC 6 Music (Deb Grant, Don Letts, Gideon Coe), Radio X (John Kennedy)airplay, and being crowned BBC Introducing Oxford/Buckinghamshire's Band of the Year. PRESS Record Collector / Uncut / Wonderland / Dork magazine / The Line Of Best Fit / Hard of Hearing / Blow Up Magazine / Shindig! / Electronic Sound

Track Listing

Time Goes Up

Hypersonic Super-Astroid

Charlie's Comet

The Change and the Changing

Lorenzo's Desk

King Cnut

Barranmode

Find the Tree and Dig (Deep)!

Earth-Sized Worlds

Details
  • Genre: Indie
  • Product Type: AUDIO CD
  • Barcode: 5052442027126
  • Release Date: February 21, 2025
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