tracks

The Last Engineer
England's Always Better (As You're Pulling Away)
Incurable (Reprise)
Soldier Song
The King Cannot Be Found
Great Escapes
Cities & Factories
Halfway Through
Saints Preserve Us
Part-Monster

notes

℗Piano Magic 2007 ©Important Records 2007
The copyright in this recording is owned by Piano Magic under license to Important Records

Produced, recorded and mixed at the Fortress except Track 10 recorded & mixed at the Ranch & Murder Mile
Mastered at Electric Mastering, London

Simon Rivers appears courtesy of The Bitter Springs

Sticker:
Part-Monster, Piano Magic’s 7th “proper” album (excluding compilations) easily lives up to it’s title. Though Piano Magic are generally tarred with the brushes of ambient, coldwave or even ghostrock, Part-Monster has it’s fill of all-out, near brutal, dynamic intensity. Indeed, anyone who’s witnessed PM live over the past 2 years or so will testify that the shadowy introspection of their records is camouflage for a beast of many teeth. Bringing in Guy Fixsen, of the group, Laika, as producer, clearly marked the band’s intention for a rawer, more powerful sound. Fixsen has taken the production and/or engineer chair for such luminaries as The Pixies, Moonshake, The Breeders, Joy Zipper, Stereolab, Lush and most notably for My Bloody Valentine’s Loveless.

The original version of Track 3 was previously released on Incurable.

credits

Bass – Alasdair Steer
Design [Design And Montage] – Matt Dornan
Design [Logo Designed By] – Andersen M Studio
Double Bass – Guy Fixsen
Drums, Percussion, Bass, Piano [Thumb Piano] – Jerome Tcherneyan
Guitar [Guitars] – Franck Alba
Mastered By – Mandy Parnell
Performer – Alasdair Steer, Cédric Pin, Franck Alba, Glen Johnson, Jerome Tcherneyan
Performer [With] – Angèle David-Guillou, Guy Fixsen, Simon Rivers, Terry Edwards
Photography By – Paul Heartfield
Producer – Guy Fixsen
Recorded By, Mixed By – Guy Fixsen (tracks: 1 to 9)
Synthesizer [Synthesizers], Electric Piano [Rhodes], Piano – Cédric Pin,
Trumpet – Terry Edwards
Voice [Female Voice] – Angèle David-Guillou
Voice [Male Voice], Guitar [Guitars] – Glen Johnson
Words By – Glen Johnson (tracks: 1, 3 to 10)

companies

Phonographic Copyright (p) – Piano Magic
Copyright (c) – Important Records (2)
Licensed To – Important Records (2)
Produced At – The Fortress
Recorded At – The Fortress
Mixed At – The Fortress
Recorded At – The Ranch (3)
Mixed At – The Ranch (3)
Recorded At – Murder Mile
Mixed At – Murder Mile
Mastered At – Electric Mastering
Designed At – Andersen M Studio
Manufactured By – Crooked Cove

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