Serotonin

Mystery Jets | Format: Vinyl

Product Details

• Vinyl (July 27, 2010)
• Number of Discs: 2
• Label: Rough Trade Us
• ASIN: B003KWR0NA
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #321,830 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Alice Springs

2. It's Too Late To Talk

3. The Girl Is Gone

4. Flash A Hungry Smile

5. Serotonin

6. Show Me The Light

7. Dreaming Of Another World

8. Lady Grey

9. Waiting On A Miracle

10. Melt

11. Lorna Doone

Editorial Reviews

The Mystery Jets sit around a vast table, upstairs in a plush West London studio. Downstairs in the control room, putting the finishing touches to the third Mystery Jets album, Serotonin, lurks Chris Thomas, legendary producer of Roxy Music s For Your Pleasure, the Sex Pistols Anarchy In The UK, John Cale s Paris 1919 and Pulp s Different Class, of whom the Mystery Jets understandably seem a little in awe. He can hear things that none of us can hear, whispers guitarist William Rees. He s got dog s ears. And he has the best stories, nods lead singer Blaine Harrison. The anecdotes are just unbelievable.

The sound emerging from the studio today sounds infinitely less chaotic, but no less inventive. After stripping away much of the excess on their lovelorn, warmly-received 2008 album Twenty One, Serotonin sees the Mystery Jets mapping out entirely new musical territories with the synthesizer-fueled perfect pop of Dreaming Of Another World and It s Too Late , which begins as an aching soft-rock ballad before unexpectedly heading somewhere infinitely weirder. In the dark, hallucinatory grind of Lorna Doone , you can hear echoes of ELO, 10CC, Fleetwood Mac and Supertramp rubbing up against the band s own idiosyncratic, very British, psychedelic sensibility. Vinyl comes with bonus 7" and poster.

Customer Reviews

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best album I discovered this year, December 24, 2010

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desmondthegreat - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Serotonin (Audio CD)

When all my favorite cd shops closed (Tower Records) or shrunk their cd section (Borders), I began visitng Amazon about half a year ago and am I surprised to find such a huge collection! I have been discovering new music since. I discovered Mystery Jets on the British website (nme.com) and thought I should hear them out. Serotonin is one of the most exciting albums I bought this year. The most catchy tune is 'Dreaming Of Another World'. While other tracks on this album are typical pop songs, two tunes caught my attention:'Serotonin' and 'Lorna Doone'. I just had to look up their meanings. Serotonin is a kind of happiness hormone; and Lorna Doone was a novel published in the 19th century. I love it when I can learn from songs I like. I will be purchasing their other albums soon.

2 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Rhetorical questions posed by this unusual album, March 16, 2011

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Garbageman (the other side of California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Serotonin (Audio CD)

1. What would happen if Stone Temple Pilots around the time of "4" were somehow castrated, had all their power chords replaced by soaring synthesizer solos and even worse lyrics, and were told that if they didn't produce something that would make Casey Kasem squeal with delight, they'd be sent back to rehab?

2. Have you ever wondered, what if Mike Love was a guest vocalist on Europe's "The Final Countdown"?

3. Imagine what would happen if Shudder To Think had stayed together, distilled the candiest, glitteriest pop hooks from their saccharine "50,000 BC", (whistled, of course), and all developed a moog fetish?

4. If "Rio"-era Duran Duran were placed in a time machine and sent to skinny-pants Brooklyn circa 2008, were then locked in a studio where they were bombarded with rare and unreleased Freddie Mercury solo acapella material, and told to produce a musical dissertation channeling the singer from The Mars Volta?