Movietone Share Previously Unreleased “Phonograph Space” From New Day And Night Reissue
Movietone are one of those bands that somehow slipped through the cracks despite making decent, thoughtful post-rock when the genre was genuinely exciting, and it's genuinely brilliant to see them getting a good second look. If you spent the late Nineties and early Noughties deep in British indie without stumbling across them, now's your chance to fill that gap and a newly unearthed track from a Domino reissue is exactly the sort of thing that might change your mind about a band you've never heard. There's something quite special about discovering these overlooked gems when they get the archival treatment.
From Stereogum: The whispery Y2K-era British post-rock band Movietone have not been heavily canonized. In my experience, you could get into indie music in the 2000s without ever hearing them mentioned. But Movietone might finally be getting their due. Last year Mark Richardson wrote a thoughtful retrospective of their 2000 album The Blossom Filled Streets at Pitchfork, and now Domino is reissuing 1997's Day And N…