Exciting News

[Paul]

Hey All,

I thought you guys would like to be the first to know....
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ORG RECORDS PRESS RELEASE:

PURE REASON REVOLUTION ANNOUNCE NEW SINGLE AND ONE OFF LONDON SHOW...

PURE REASON REVOLUTION start their next period of musical evolution and the
build up to their much anticipated second full album with a one off four
track EP on ORG Records. The new album is due out this summer - more news
from the band and their new label when they're good and ready
- all sounding rather good to me...

The single - VICTORIOUS CUPID - will be out as part of the ongoing ORG-
AN-ISED SINGLES SERIES on April 14th. As always with the singles series, the
release will be CD only, limited to 1000, packages in those distinctive
black and white covers...

The band perform an intimate low-key one off show at the Water Rats in
London on Saturday 12th April - tickets have just gone on sale and I'm told
they're selling fast.

It really is all about evolution and constant re-invention with Pure Reason
Revolution

PURE REASON REVOLUTION first emerged in 2003 via Alan McGee's Poptones label
with a debut single called Apprentice of The Universe. Further well received
singles built on the buzz - although there is quite a teenage punk rock
pre-PRR history that you'll find documented in old copies of Organ (ORG
Records, as I'm sure you know, is the in-house label of long running Organ
magazine). So a handful of singles - Bright Ambassadors of Morning being a
twelve minute stand out with those ambitious vocal harmonies and those hints
of classic timeless Floyd. A mini album - Cautionary Tales Of The Brave
built on the cross fertilisation and further established the now world-wide
cult following
- Pure Reason Revolution are a band as equally loved by the alternative
indie kids as they are by the full-on post rock/progheads . The debut full
album The Dark Third came out in 2006 on the band's own Holograph imprint,
the album rightly received a wonderful reaction...

PRR aren't a band you can easily pin down, they're certainly not a band to
play things safe, if they are a prog band then they're are progressive in
the realest sense of the term - the new single is the stepping stone that
will lead you in to this new period - the bridge if you will. The lead track
is coupled with an intriguing remix version from CEDO SIMPLEX as well as two
beautiful acoustic re-workings of old favourites The Intention Craft and
Nimos & Tambos

PURE REASON REVOLUTION are: Jon Courtney (guitars/keys/vocals) Chloe Alper
(bass/keys/vocals) Jamie Willcox (guitars/keys/vocals) and Paul Glover
(drums/vocals)

We're genuinely excited to be releasing this new single here on ORG, things
like this are what we're all about...
Sean O, ORG (March 2008)
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We're all very excited about this. We had such a huge response to Victorious Cupid so it’s great to be putting it out on a physical format with a few little extras. The remix is absolutely banging!

Hopefully see some of you at Water Rats! Make sure you get your tickets quickly. We've already sold more than we expected to at this stage of the game.....

Paul.
PRR.

[ryan]

You grade A legend.

Wow.
Excited.

[the dark fourth]

I want to scream with excitement!
Grade A? A**** more like!!!!
You have really really made my day.

[Lawrie]

Nice one. Most encouraging is the further hint that the band have secured a record deal for Album #2, this should give PRR the platform they need to get things moving forward again in 2008.

Cheers Paul, see you in London in April!

[blondeambassador]

Yeeeeeah...great stuff all very exciting- I go away for one week and all this news arrives...maybe I should go away more often haha! Yeah you're right about the hints for album no 2...only shame is this all rings a little similar to the CTFTB/TDT story but that will be fine as long as all of this is properly promoted and released, especially the album. Hopefully this will give a good platform to go onwards as you said.

[timpenumbra]

Cool - just ordered mine!

[Lawrie]

timpenumbra said:

Cool - just ordered mine!

Snap!

[ryan]

I lost my wallet the other day so can't order this or water rats tickets now i know I'm going until the middle of next week, grrr.

Anyway, this is cool on two levels. Obviously the tunes, and new release and that, but also the fact we were told first. I think that's awesome.

Also, tracklist looks to be:
Victorious Cupid
Victorious Cupid (Cedo Simplex remix)
The Intention Craft (Acoustic)
Nimos & Tambos (Acoustic)


I assume the intention craft will be a newer version than the one up for digital download at itunes and the like.

[the dark fourth]

ryan said:

Anyway, this is cool on two levels. Obviously the tunes, and new release and that, but also the fact we were told first. I think that's awesome.

Totally! Also, just read Jon's bulletin (it's nice to hear from him for a change) and was overjoyed to hear: "We’ll be playing a few newuns, plus a hefty dose of the golden oldies". This just keeps getting better! Plus loving the Arctic Monkeys rip-off!

[ryan]

this is the cover of the CD:



taken from ebay listing

[Lawrie]

Not too keen on the ORG black-and-white style on their single cover arts, but seeing as this a one-off PRR single release (as opposed to, say, a limited edition of Album #2) then it doesn't bother me any.

Will be interesting to see where the band go on the artwork themes for the Album #2 material (including any singles etc) - after a space/ancient Greek theme for Cautionary Tales and The Dark Third, where do you go from there?! Wonder if the artwork will be a Chloe effort now that she seems to have a sideline doing artwork for other bands, and also the original VC single covers available at gigs last year?

[blondeambassador]

That single cover is pretty horrible, I'll be honest...but yeah as he said, it's a one-off so it's not too crucial.

I think there might be quite a dramatic change of style on the cards album artwork-wise...just look at the different between the new logo artwork (as in, the new forum background) and the old one, much more emphasis on the modern where it used to be classical.

[ripley]

I totally agree!!

[the dark fourth]

blondeambassador said:

I think there might be quite a dramatic change of style on the cards album artwork-wise...just look at the different between the new logo artwork (as in, the new forum background) and the old one, much more emphasis on the modern where it used to be classical.

Although, this is just a poster for a gig, and poster in the past haven't normally followed the same artwork style as the cover art, so I'm not sure it's necessarily the best indication of what's to come (also, it could easily have been designed by the people at monto or something). I do think the artwork will be very different, but I don't think it will be 'modern' exactly....at least I'd be surprised.

[ripley]

I hope you are right!!