Well we haven't posted on here for about six months due to being enormously busy. Firstly mixing the album, then setting up the label, getting the records made, doing unbelieveable amounts of admin, getting the record on sale, getting the website sorted and now getting download copies on the fantastic audioscrobbler. All of which has left very little time for much else except eating and drinking too much and celebrating the fact that after three years, a year of which was spent in the studio, we've done what we set out to musically.
We've been working together for seven years now - since we were very little indeed and I must say when we started I had no idea it would take us that long to do something that we thought was any good. I also had no idea that we'd make our first album without any one else working on it, in our flat around doing our day jobs. Nor did I ever imagine that doing it this way would be so fun. But then I also never imagined seven years ago that the music industry would get so inefficient and unresponsive that we'd want no part in it.
It occurs to me that none of the rest of our posts have been about The Sun Brothers despite residing under the name, so perhaps I should just explain who we are and what we do. There are two of us and we write and record music together. That much is obvious. We listen to lots of records and believe in writing about small scale experiences over the top of huge scale pop songs - that much is probably obvious from some of our other posts.
We used to want to be a big successful world dominating pop band ended up realising that all we actually wanted to do was make records that sounded as much like we wanted them as possible. The rest of it was actually of very little interest. We learned this a rather difficult way - in the middle of doing some demos for a major label. The world of the desperate to be exploited artist is not for everyone and has virtually nothing in common with an ambition to make great records.
Firstly we wanted to show that you can make widescreen pop songs on a computer in a flat in west London, and now we want to show that you don't need a huge advertising budget to let people know about them. This may be a flawed ambition, but for us it's a very exciting one.
I thought this post might be headed 'it took a long time to get here' ...
And I note that you're in the top 10 'Rising Artists' on audioscrobbler as I speak ... erm ... write.
And, for the record, I love the record.
Posted by: Peter | July 20, 2004 at 08:25 AM
You're right - I can't believe I didn't think of that - have taken your suggestion as a good idea and changed it.
Posted by: Sun Brothers | July 20, 2004 at 09:52 AM
Hi,
I found your music somehow on Audioscrobbler when I was checking out The Flaming Lips (I don't really have figured out the connection).
So I decided to buy the album on Audioscrobbler in this version: "This zip file contains 256kbps VBR MP3 Files".
I don't know if you want to know but I got some error message on Audioscrobbler. I hope to work that out :)
But I still like the two songs I have heard.
Best regards from Iceland,
keep up the good work
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