Album sleeve: a serene face haloed by golden rays, floating above pink and red tower blocks, paisley patterns and burnt paper edges.
Sleeve artwork by sylaq

The debut mini-album, 2009

The Council Flats of Kingsbury

Fourteen songs for an imaginary drama set in an exotic housing estate. Easy listening, with something wrong underneath it.

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Label
Uncharted Audio
Catalogue
UNCH021
Released
30 September 2009
Pressing
Mini-LP, one edition of 250
Also known as
The Council Flats of Kingsbury EP

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Fourteen tracks, about thirty-five minutes. The player loads from bandcamp.com.

Sleeve notes

The Council Flats of Kingsbury have spent the past eight years eliminating all non essential thought, thus providing space for their imagination to give birth. They feel that they have recently been ‘called’ to combine tradition with digital technology, contributing towards providing a solution to aid the spiritual and fashionable needs of the 21st century youthful.

Songs for an imaginary drama/horror set in an exotic housing estate. A DIY production with delayed and reverberated backing vocals, the overall result is an easy listening experience with a hint of psychedelia.

The record draws on the golden age of bossa nova, sophisticated soundtracks, classic psychological thrillers and the quieter horrors of suburban life, and holds that tension for about thirty-five minutes. Louise, the closing track, was played by Huw Stephens on BBC Radio 1 and Don Letts on BBC 6 Music.

A cut-up of two photographs of the same front room: a hi-fi stack and an old computer against a lilac wall, and a man sitting beside a guitar amp holding a bottle.
Secondary sleeve artwork.

Fourteen tracks

  1. Fun in the Sun2:40
  2. Strange Party2:22
  3. Michelle’s Teeth2:26
  4. Dream Within a Dream1:46
  5. Go Traveling2:20
  6. Hobo Stares at the Sky Awhile3:57
  7. Black Leather Glove1:54
  8. Theme to “Nothing Really Matters”1:29
  9. There I Was, Dancing4:46
  10. Frolicking in the Suburbs2:42
  11. Warm and Fuzzy Here2:32
  12. Happy but Dark1:44
  13. The Laughing Idiot2:00
  14. Louise3:39

Uncharted Audio

The London label put the record out in September 2009 as catalogue number UNCH021, a mini-LP pressed once in an edition of 250 copies with a stickered card sleeve.

The release on unchartedaudio.com The label’s Bandcamp