honey be records

Just a quick note to let you know that Matt’s first album on Honey Be is now available from the following reputable online stores: iTunes and Amazon UK.

It’d be great if you bought the album from one of these behemoths, of course, but if you’ve already got and love Beach In The Fallin’ Rain as much as we do, perhaps rate it favourably or even leave a lovely review for other sonic inquisitors?

In the meantime, we’re hard at work in Honey Be’s Midlands beehive, putting together the artwork for Matt’s new album Currency of Souls and co-ordinating our squadron of PR and new media foot soldiers to begin the assault of the ears of the world! Or something like that anyway…The album cover is a work of understated beauty, hopefully we will do the songs justice. We’re working to a post-Easter, early April release date and have put Different Shades of Blue up for a listen around the web on Soundcloud, Virb and also at thesixtyone.

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One of the main reasons Honey Be Records came into existence was to help spread the word about music we’d heard and then loved. There are many, many incredible recordings – labours of love, even – from “local” artists with anything but “local” attitudes to their music and its “listenership”. Beach In The Fallin’ Rain is one of them. When we first heard this deeply personal album written by Matt Marr and recorded along with longtime band mates from The Marlins – Tom Bradford and Paul ‘Dixie’ Harley – it was early 2006.

Since then Matt has released a self-titled solo EP, available here and has his second full-length offering, Currency of Souls, waiting in the wings for an early Spring 2010 release on Honey Be Records. Beach… remains a deeply personal collection of songs, the precursor to his latest output. The themes are those of loss, nostalgia, random weekends in Amsterdam, the fictional mixed with fact enhanced by the melodies and sounds within.

Beach In The Fallin’ Rain is available now from Matt Marr’s Bandcamp site either as a download or for just one more of your Earth pounds the CD AND the download, wheee! You can also listen to the album right now on this very page (look to your right a bit!) If that’s not enough, then mattmarr.co.uk holds the key to a free track from the forthcoming Currency of Souls. You’ll be asked to sign up to Matt’s occasional email newsletter in order to get the track, but you can unsubscribe instantly.

Thanks so much for reading, we hope you’ll love this record as much as we do, please feel free to spread the word far and wide because we’re a tiny voice in a big room! Buy Matt Marr’s Beach In The Fallin’ Rain here…

In the coming weeks Honey Be Records will be releasing the debut ep from Deltorers, as well as Matt Marr’s ‘lost classic’ Beach In The Fallin’ Rain. Those releases will be swiftly followed by brand new albums by both Matt Marr and The Sables, neither of which we’re yet to hear, but the ridiculously high level of expectancy we have for both albums is simply born out of what has gone before.

When Matt Marr allowed us to release both his upcoming album Currency Of Souls, as well as Beach In The Fallin’ Rain, our grins quickly became painful. Matt’s earlier work with The Marlins is also some of the most inspired songwriting we’ve heard from this area. No, simply… it is the most inspired, along with what has followed. His writing affects us in a way that only people who truly love music can begin to understand. He observes and lives life with a wonderfully heavy heart and soul. His tales, both fictitious and sometimes uncomfortably real, should be heard by anyone who shares that true love.

Deltorers have, since the first time we saw them live, got to us in an all together different way. Lacking in subtlety, experience, or (to this very day) a set of drumsticks, was on top of something far more important – giving a shit about anything other than their music. If we were teenage girls we’d fancy the Deltorers. There… that’s a confession (of sorts) of our love for these guys. But, we’d be teenage girls who had been brought up on – and loved – their parent’s old Nirvana and Sonic Youth albums, who saw these three scruffy fuckers as one of those bands you’ve loved to have discovered before they were famous. In a town where the average ‘rock’ band is about as real as reality tv, Deltorers buck that trend without trying, and that is their appeal.

Things aren’t quite so simple when it comes to talking about The Sables. Their appeal to the listener is one of discovery, to dive into its depths and drown in its beauty. To seek, to explore, to ultimately lose yourself within the vastness of its colour and emotion. South Southern Angel was an inspiration to us, not only as the final nudge needed to create Honey Be, but creatively (along with the combined talents of the rest of the Sables family) it never stops impressing. Whilst we’re still drowning in its multi-coloured ocean, we’re trying to suppress our expectations for its successor – no easy thing…