8435015517908 A ROOM WITH A VIEW ADDICTION OF DUPLICITIES 2xLP + Mp3 Date of release: May 19th, 2015 Distributed by CARROT TOP LTD

RECOMMENDED SONGS SHORT DESCRIPTION 3. curtains 4. drowning spaces Complete discography 1997-1999 on a double LP: first studio record 13. a pop song + early recordings. A showcase of the do-it-yourself and post-hardcore TRACK LIST beginnings of the band from Madrid. LP1 1. flies only live one day A Room With A View was a band formed by four kids from Madrid that was active for roughly six years 2. grey 3. curtains (from 1997 to 2003). What they are remembered for, their totally unusual live shows and the songs 4. drowning spaces they left written and recorded, frequently clashes with the hopes that were bestowed upon their future: 5. untitled Conrado, David, Jose and David broke up when they could have become one of the most important 6. four nights of a dreamer bands not only in the Spanish scene, but in the international independent arena. Their way of doing 7. hold these hands 8. the minute before things, their commitment to music, their principles, their statement and their attitude, refusing to be center stage, have not been equaled by any of the Spanish bands that came later. Maybe it is one of those LP2 9. some words about you and me instances where everything fits by coincidence. The passing of time has confirmed what was only an 10. explode intuition back in the day: A Room With A View was a (almost) perfect band. 11. I need 12. you say Born under the cloak of Madrid’s hardcore/punk scene of the 90’s but equipped with a much more 13. a pop song eclectic and deep catalogue of interests and knowledge –jazz, electronica or crust– than the average, A 14. pictures burning Room With A View stood out from day one for the right reasons: there was not a band remotely like them 15. song before the last in hundreds of miles around. They were so strange and special that no one was able to pin them down 16. once again on a particular scene or set of influences: post-rock was discussed, and the term emo was used a lot, HIGHLIGHTS Codeine, Karate, Tortoise, post-hardcore and Slint were mentioned. And undoubtedly, there was a bit of • Complete discography 1997-1999 on a all that in their sound and their esthetics, but the puzzle could never be completed by only looking outside: double LP: first studio record + early re- first and foremost, we must look inside. It was a time of paper fanzines, xeroxed flyers and the earliest cordings. A showcase of the do-it-yourself and post-hardcore beginnings of the band e-mail addresses, a time when even the boldest of dreamers could not foresee Internet networking. from Madrid. All that, plus the fact that they always succeeded (did they do it on purpose?) in flying under the radar • La Castanya releases A Room with a of even the specialized press, condemned A Room With A View to be a band for a devoted minority. View’s full discography on vinyl for the first Together with Aina, their friends from Barcelona, the best band for devoted minorities ever to come out of time. Spain. Even so, in the final days of their journey, A Room With A View were part of the roster of festivals such as Primavera Sound and Benicàssim’s FIB, both in 2003. It is difficult not to think what would have ALBUM SPECIFICATIONS Artist: A Room with a View happened to them if they had carried on playing a few more years. Title: Addicition of Duplicities Addiction of Duplicities was originally released in 1999 by the band’s own label, Heart In Hand Records. Label: La Castanya Reference: LC 29 It would have been impossible for any seasoned record listener to guess it was their debut album. These Distributor: Carrot Top 8 songs are a perfect photograph of what the band was at the time: intense, smart, elusive, complicated, Countries: USA, Canada, Australia, Taiwan rhythmically highly gifted (David on bass and the other David on drums) and melodically inspired. The noise- Digital Distributor: The Orchard silence dynamics worked as finely as the calm-storm ones. It didn’t matter that the lyrics were hardly lyrics at Format: 2xLP + Mp3 Genre: Post-Hardcore / Post-Rock all but random lines found somewhere and placed for some reason into the songs. No one made questions. Release date: May 19th, 2015 Addiction of Duplicities LP UPC Code: 8435015517908 The shows that followed the release of granted A Room With A View a fame LP Suggested list price: 26.98$ USD that would follow them until they broke up and that has survived them: on stage, they had no rival. No posturing, no pamphlets, no controversies: they came in, set up, did an astounding show and then left. CREDITS Conrado: guitar; David: bass; Three key moments of this first record: the winding and always upwards rhythm of “Curtains”, the dark Jose: guitar; David: Drums. and technical pop approach of “Drowning Spaces” and all that is sensed in “The Minute Before”, a song Addiction Of Duplicities LP1: that ends as if nothing has happened when, actually, everything has. Released on CD by Heart in Hand in 1999. Recorded, mixed and produced by This double vinyl edition contains, besides the 4 songs that originally appeared in long out of print Xavier Navarro at Mr. Pri Studios (Locate 0), compilations released in 1998 and 1999 (“You Say” stands out for its virulence and its drums) and 3 january 1999. Mastered by Albert Guitart more songs from a split record with other bands, diverse in sound but sharing the same ethos, from and Xavier Navarro at ALB Studio. the hardcore scene such as Manifesto and Hopeful, a previously unreleased song fittingly titled “A Pop Addiction Of Duplicities LP1+LP2: Song” which, although lacking any kind of connection to the genre, can at times bring The Cure into mind Remastered by Víctor Garcia at Ultrama- (an association that has been done before and that could be frequently read in fanzines and mail order rinos Mastering, Sant Feliu de Guíxols, lists back in the day). This cut alone, rescued from a cassette tape that Jose kept and with a sound that autumn 2014. shows the wear and tear and the folding of the tape, perfectly justifies the release and purchase of these DISTRIBUTOR CONTACT 400 grams of plastic and thick cardboard that represent the early years of A Room With A View, a period Carrot Top • [email protected] • ctdltd.com marked by activity, search and continuous instrumental dialogue.

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