“Think Twin Peaks’ soundtrack hooks up with Pretty In Pink’s soundtrack in a dark alley at night.” – QUICK BEFORE IT MELTS “ have been getting a ton of press from Vice and recently named one of NME’s top ten of the week along side huge acts like The National and She & Him – it’s safe to say Bishop Morocco are going places” – BLOGTO Their catchy beats are a perfect fusion of pop, new-wave, and electronica.” – NYLON “Bishop Morocco is one of those rare bands whose songs we can listen to over and over again. Anchored by Pixies-meets-shoegazer single Last Year’s Disco Guitars and the Joy Divisiony Our Time, the album makes us hope Bishop Morocco continue this promising side project.” – NOW Package design & artwork by James Mejia.īest Music of 2010: Bishop Morocco “few buzz-band survivors move on to make music this good. Limited pressing of 300 on 180g white vinyl. The product of their time in the Netherlands is their self-titled debut album released via Hand Drawn Dracula.īishop Morocco CD & LP printed on uncoated 18pt 100% Recycled C1S paperboard and uncoated SBS. Dark but full of hope, their music is a reflection of their shared youth within the west-central neighborhoods of Toronto, juxtaposed against the history and cultural wasteland of small-town Europe. The result is somewhere between the soundtrack to Twin Peaks and the Madchester sound. Their influences range from Roy Orbison and Angelo Badalamenti to the Smiths and New Order. Though their musical paths had taken divergent, almost opposing courses, they used the geographical disconnection from everyone they knew to focus on creating a new kind of pop music.īISHOP MOROCCO’s sound references Americana as much as Brit-pop. Their long-standing friendship had not manifested itself into a musical project since their early teens, and they decided to re-ignite a creative conversation that had been put on hold over ten years earlier. Jim Sayce had been in Toronto, pursuing graduate studies while playing in such bands as TANGIERS (French Kiss) and earlier, the DEADLY SNAKES (In The Red). Jake Fairley (aka FAIRMONT) had spent the past 6 years based in Berlin, riding a wave of European techno hits released on labels such as Border Community and Kompakt. In the Fall of 2008, two old friends from Toronto, Canada met in the greyness and never-ending drizzle of Groningen, a town in the northern Netherlands.
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