Detached Engagement, by The Mistys

Detached Engagement

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Beautiful pink marbled vinyl edition of Detached Engagement with insert and bespoke outer poly sleeve printed at Small Press Studio in Stockport. Initial copies of the album come with a super limited fanzine/artbook & postcard collecting all of The Mistys Detached Engagement images.

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1.	Where Fingers Meet 03:50	buy track
2.	Markers 04:09	buy track
3.	The Entire World is Outside 03:09	buy track
4.	Strange Shadows 03:37	buy track
5.	Shared Solitude 04:11	buy track
6.	Empty Intentions 03:36	buy track
7.	Borrowed Presence 04:10	buy track
8.	Mouth Bones 03:13	buy track
9.	Funeral Flowers 03:29	buy track
10.	I'm Leaving, I've Left 03:33	buy track

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The collection of songs that make up ‘Detached Engagement’ are our most personal and emotionally revealing tracks. Recorded over a period of emotional turbulence where we lost loved ones and uncertainty seemed the only constant. Our studio became a hide away, a place of refuge where we could direct our energies into a creative act of understanding and hope. We reconfigured our subversive pop to fit our present situation, the distortion was dialled back, the gauzy tape worn ambiguity was replaced by a more in focus directness. Every song was stripped back to its essential elements revealing a newfound complexity in our song writing and arrangement.

Our devotion to the power of pop has not diminished, we still hold firm that it is a subversive medium to communicate ideas outside of the conventional messages of love and other frivolities. It still has the power to bring people together around a shared vision of how things could be.

We are happy to present these ten missives of post-industrial romance, existential melancholy, new beginnings, songs that linger in the half-light of ‘80’s synth-pop, 90’s trip-hop and electronica. It’s not all that heavy, this one is for the slow dancers and the close dancers.

The Mistys are a pop group.

The Mistys are in love with drum machines, wonky synths, close miked vocals, cassette warble and reverb.

The Mistys are fans of French pop, new wave, punk, downtempo and slow disco.

The Mistys are the soundtrack to a longed for kiss.

The Mistys are disciples of Simone De Beauvoir.

The Mistys are hoping you will enjoy our new album Detached Engagement.

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released September 8, 2023

Words & Music: The Mistys
Mastering: Antony Ryan at RedRedPaw
Publishing: Phantom Limb
Artwork: The Mistys
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