Building on the low-lit interior sounds of their critically acclaimed 2006 debut ‘Rest Room’, Selon Recliner have completed their second album, ‘The Orchid Door’, due for release in early 2009. Working with Producer Dave Holmes (Gramsci, Jakob) the band has explored a steeper landscape, exiting the ‘Rest Room’ & soaring across a more varied terrain.
Selon Recliner’s music has been described as having a dark, hypnotic beauty that breezes along on mellow atmospheric guitars, poignant keys and gentle beats. Their Dark Pop label will be furthered by their new work, while showcasing a richer pallet of mood and atmosphere.
“If Rest Room was our interior album then this is definitely about exteriors”, says vocalist and co-songwriter Belinda Bradley.
‘Lonely Girl’, a swaggering space groove, is the first track to leave the mothership Nov 2008.
BACK STORY
Selon Recliner formed in 2004 to create music that leant towards the cinematic & evocative. A band packed with song writing & visual arts talent, it was a cocktail waiting to be mixed, a lounge suite of crushed velvet sound waiting to be slept on.
Demos piled up on the sideboard, and the songs were trialed in live shows with great flourish. Steady recording took the band underground during the winter of 2005; they emerged again with the release of their debut album ‘Rest Room’ in April 2006. It was received enthusiastically with the album being dubbed “Moody, Dark Pop” by reviewers.
It collected a couple of international awards, a handful of nominations, charted on a swag of College Radio stations in North America, and picked up licensing deals to MTV, USA along with several other American Production Networks. The sofa had been slept on and the ‘Rest Room’ had exhausted its occupancy… it was time to create another space.
