Belleville, by Belleville

Belleville

by Belleville

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1.	Ascendancy 02:41	buy track
2.	What A Relief 03:21	buy track
3.	Seafood 02:27	buy track
4.	Waiting 02:48	buy track
5.	High Heels 02:32	buy track
6.	Ain't Gonna Be Here That Long 01:38	buy track
7.	I Don't Fear God 03:54	buy track
8.	Aeroplanes 04:51	buy track
9.	Affinity Schminity 03:06	buy track
10.	Breakdown 03:05	buy track
11.	Nighty Night 05:05	buy track

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London trio Belleville take a left of centre approach to songwriting on their debut album. Using traditional rock instrumentation, the group have formulated a gorgeously minimal approach - cutting out any non-essential elements. Overdriven but melodic guitars are used for bedding harmonies straight out of the American loose-lipped and low-slung underground. there's elements of Dinosaur Jr in the wired, countrified guitar and The Replacements in the vocals which are delivered with much off-the-cuff aplomb. The songs have an occasional touch of Meat Puppets looseness, on 'I Don't Fear God' for example, while opener 'Ascendancy' touches on something more minimal and unconventional with its drones and overtones. Overall a strong opening long player.

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November 2011

Laura Jane Higgs - Drums
Michael James Davies - Guitar, Bass, Vocals
Mark Edward Hucks - Guitar, Bass, Vocals

Recorded at the Bunker in Dalston
Mastered at Greenmount Studios in Wakefield

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released July 1, 2011

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Belleville London, UK

Belleville are meant to be a lo-fi, alt-country, jangly indie-rock sort of band but get carried away with other stuff from time to time. Their eponymous debut album was described as "a gorgeously minimal approach" by Rough Trade and "a healthy mix of indie-country-blues-lo-fi rock in its greatest nuanced quietly distorted form" by Camden New Journal. ... more

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