microphone STAND

Pianos and Sticks - Mini Album is now available to buy on CD. Hand made and stamped in unique packaging. Featuring Artwork printed onto 260gsm photo paper. All numbered.



1. Pianos and Sticks (5:50)
2. What was it Again (3:53)
3. BandBandBand (2:56)
4. Ship that never Sunk (4:55)
5. This is quiet (4:44)



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"Failing to submit anything other than a CD with a phone number on, whoever microphone are - they have lost their mind.
a lone symbol smash with off-key vocal shouts "piano's and sticks microphones and catchy bits.
After a while it starts to make a sick sense, creepy."



John Earls. Planet Sound, Channel 4 teletext



"I'm fingers crossed, let this be a bag of crap then I won't have to phone the eedjit who sends out demos with no website or email to point punters at. No deal, this is abstract art in sound, not the arsey guff because microphone STAND can play, play a variety of instruments in fact and can make a coherent construct of a song that incorporates all manner of discordant interest. Now, that'll mean nowt to you, but imagine a Jamie T who can play properly, imagine a Kate Nash with something to say, imagine a singer-songwriter without an airbrush, imagine that singer-songwriter dipping into his Atari Teenage Riot influences at odd moments. Yeah, I know, you gotta hear it, right i'll call him now.ta-dah!"
Shane @ unpeeled.co.uk



"From Coalville in Leicester, the mysterious Microphone Stand have provided an experimental EP that sounds as though it's been recorded in a bedroom with distorted keyboards and a level meter thrashing crash of cymbals and electronic bass drums. 'microphone stand' , who sent in a passport picture of himself printed on a torn of strip of paper (which seems to be the instruction manual for his printer) -you can see where this is going- seems to painting himself as something of an enigma. I'd say he is one.
"Pianos & Sticks" is sort of like Frank Sidebottom, but an alternative universe Frank – where he's deadly serious wears black leather gloves and has become a gothic rock star. The EP is crammed with strange lyrics and grating effects, yet the whole plot is pretty minimalistic and pretty inventive throughout. There's even a dance bass beat on track 3 (obviously there's no tracklisting!) and everything is deliberately distorted like a badly tuned radio. It's all generally mad stuff but behind of all of this is the possibility of the odd bout of creative genius "
By Parker Knoll