| ***East London's Dark Captain Light Captain came together in early 2006 fueled by a love for folkish sounds, black coffee and incessant late night bedroom recordings sessions. A speculative myspace page containing some early demos made quite a few people happy, and just a few months into their existence they found themselves featuring as co-writers and performers on "Seven Sisters", the superb debut album by German folk noir chanteuse Milenasong. Countless London shows followed (including a double feature at the LoveBox Festival in Victoria Park) as well as appearances in Oslo and Berlin. "Jealous Enemies b/w Mid-Session Interval" is the debut recordings from the Captains, their unique (but strangely familiar) textured sound and vocal harmonies is without a doubt an indication of greater things to come. A follow up single ("80,000 Reasons b/w Walls") will be released in April 2008 with their debut LP scheduled for a May release. "Dark Captain Light Captain are beautiful, dense, textured, slightly scary and constantly engaging" Drowned in Sound "It's gentle, massively understated, but its gets right inside your head and stays there" CMU Daily ""Think Beta Band meeting Ride, with Godspeed! You Black Emperor and King of Convenience looking on approvingly" TuneTribe (Dark Captain, Light Captain Featured in Tips for 2007) "... a beautifully delicate and deliciously fragile thing of quiet breathless breathy, restrained, delicate, delicate beauty" The Organ "They manage to sound fresh and exciting while remaining strangely familiar, to retain the rough edged quality of a DIY recording while sounding more than competently produced and, all-in-all, win us over with a minimum of effort and a quiet, lackadaisical confidence." Supersweet Magazine "... and undercurrent of mystery and an idea of late night idea scribbling and quietly strumming while the world is sleeping nearby, perhaps even just through the walls and not to be woken". 99x/10 30-second MP3 excerpts: Jealous Enemies
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