Fraction Discs proudly presents: TILLMANNS a careless lifestyle After two 7” singles it’s finally time for the Göteborg duo Tillmanns ARTIST: TILLMANNS first album, and “A Careless Lifestyle“ is a much longed-for debut TITLE: A CARELESS LIFESTYLE CD. Because many of us have missed the sound of winding, ethereal LABEL: FRACTION DISCS guitars and sweeping, synthetic layers over minimalistic beats. The CAT. NO: FRACTION 004 sound is well-known from a golden era when labels such as Sarah DATE OF RELEASE: AUGUST 25TH 2007 Records and Factory spread little grains of gold like The Wake, New Order, The Durutti Column, Stockholm Monsters and The TRACKLIST: Field Mice. 1. HEAVY ROTATION 2. BACKGROUND But, there’s another thread that through the North Sea connects 3. HYPNOSIS the Northern Britain with our West Coast: the eternal lashing of 4. COLD HANDS rain at bus stops, on windscreens and window-ledges. And the light 5. INSTRUMENTAL after the rain: the shimmering, but with a darker undertone. The 6. OPENING art of balancing those contrasts - maybe this is what seizes us and 7. NEW PLACE 8. HERE’S A HIT HIT WITH THEM IN MIND sends us into a soft hypnosis, that actually can make us long for the 9. TWIST autumn to burst into splendid colours: yellow, orange, red... 10. TIME WHAT’S BEEN SAID: PREVIOUS RELEASES BY TILLMANNS: “Indie pop was once my life. Yes, I loved the Field Mice & all that jangly cobblers. Still “RUN EP”, 7” (FRACTION DISCS) 2006 do in fact. A lot of late 80’s sad eyed troubadours took New Order’s breathtaking electro “SUPERFICTION“, 7” (BRACKEN) 2007 shambles to heart & started re-creating such a slew of melancholic lo-fi pop & whimsical genius in their bedrooms all over the rain streaked suburbs of Blighty. Now everyone wants TILLMANNS ON THE INTERNET: to be the Arctic Monkeys or Kanye West or whatever we have to buy our tear stained WWW.TILLMANNS.SE DIY pop back from chillier plains. Sweden for example drips great indie but beyond a tiny WWW.MYSPACE.COM/TILLMANNS handful of acts, no-one beyond Scandinavia really gives a shite. Where a year or two ago we were swooning to the Radio Dept, we now have fellow fuzzers TILLMANNS & even resident jangle hater, Phil, has expressed an interest in this fabulous 4 track 7” on Fraction. Blending prime early Field Mice (rattling drum machine under a blanket of post Sumner strum, wistful lyrics down in the mix & a swelling keyboard with more emotion than the entire England squad. ‘Run’ is also simply an amazing tune. Then you get another 3 New Order inspired gems with hints of other early lesser spotted Factory acts with obvious WWW.FRACTIONDISCS.SE affectionate nods to the juicier elements of the Sarah roster & some fabulous MBV-esque WWW.MYSPACE.COM/FRACTIONDISCS dying tremelo seagull effects on the spine tingling ‘Twist’ (spaced out). This 7” is absolutely E-MAIL: [email protected] essential if you’re a indie fan. Simple as that!” FRACTION DISCS, Norman Records (Leeds, UK) proclaims Tillmanns’ “Run EP“ Single Of The Year VAKTMÄSTAREGÅNGEN 2, 2007 S-413 18 GÖTEBORG, SWEDEN.