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Such Great Heights - Songs From My Room thedevotedfew 808 views Ben here. Here's another song from my room. This one was recorded for Matt & Mel Shanks. I was supposed to play it at their wedding but couldn't get there. Hope you enjoy.
Too Young - Songs From My Room thedevotedfew 392 views Ben here. Here's another song from my room. This is one of my favourite tracks from one of my favourite bands - Phoenix! Hope your enjoy. Request a song and I'll play it...
Cornflower Blue - Songs From My Room thedevotedfew 689 views Ben here. Here's an old Devoted Few song called Cornflower Blue I recorded in my room. Request a song and I'll play it for you. Doesn't have to be a Devoted Few track. For ...
Your Ghosts - Songs From My Room thedevotedfew 334 views Ben here. Here's another song from my room. Request a song and I'll play it for you. Doesn't have to be a Devoted Few track. For more tracks I've recorded like this goto: h...
The Devoted Few . The Vampire Diaries . Episode Four thedevotedfew 1,558 views The forth in a series of webisodes documenting the making of 'Baby, You're A Vampire', the new album by The Devoted Few.
The Devoted Few . The Vampire Diaries . Episode Three thedevotedfew 303 views The third in a series of webisodes documenting the making of 'Baby, You're A Vampire', the new album by The Devoted Few.
The Devoted Few . The Vampire Diaries . Episode Two thedevotedfew 973 views The second in a series of webisodes documenting the making of 'Baby, You're A Vampire', the new album by The Devoted Few.
The Devoted Few . The Vampire Diaries . Episode One thedevotedfew 8,368 views The first in a series of webisodes documenting the making of 'Baby, You're A Vampire', the new album by The Devoted Few.
The Devoted Few Live thedevotedfew 813 views The Devoted Few live at Rebel Rebel, Sydney. Recorded in July 2006.
Counting Cars - The Devoted Few - Live at Rebel Rebel thedevotedfew 400 views A live performance of 'Counting Cars' by The Devoted Few at Rebel Rebel in Sydney.

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'Baby, You're A Vampire' is an astonishing record from start to finish, an album full to bursting with hooks, ideas and glorious noise. It's the sound of a band firing on all cylinders, passionately in love with the noise they make together. It's songwriter Ben Fletcher's most confident and ambitious effort to date. It's got moments of transcendence that would make the Arcade Fire blush, dark corners that would frighten Robert Smith, and ideas that would make Brian Eno say, 'bugger, I wish I'd thought of that'.

It's not the kind of thing you can pull off in a weekend and 'Baby, You're A Vampire' has been a long time coming. In the months following the arrival of The Devoted Few's last release, 'Schematic Tracks' (which spawned the single Sleep Less) Fletcher had a headful of songs and a million ideas about how to record them. But his second job as guitarist for Sarah Blasko kept him otherwise occupied for much of the next year, putting Devoted business temporarily on hold. Then, early the following year, The Devoted Few won a demo competition, giving them ten days in the studio with Anton Hagop (silverchair, Dissociatives), where the bulk of the new songs were finally committed to tape. Two additional songs and the album's wide-screen touches were added a few weeks later at BJB with Scott Horscroft (Sleepy Jackson, The Panics), and an email to Nashville, Tennessee turned up mixer Jacquire King (Kings Of Leon, Modest Mouse). 'Do you have a couple of weeks free to mix our album?' the band politely enquired of King. 'What are you doing the day after tomorrow?' came the reply. Fletcher and guitarist Barry Adamson grabbed their toothbrushes and flew to Nashville, and 'Baby, You're A Vampire' was subsequently polished to perfection in the buckle of the bible belt, as King likes to call it.

Fletcher and Adamson each flew back into Sydney with something very special amidst his carry-on luggage. More special, even, than the Elvis mugs they got at Graceland. A humble CD-R containing the album you are about to hear. What kind of album is it? Ill give you a few more clues. It's got music that sounds like a city going up in flames, and words that sound like the poetry you hear in your dreams. It's got songs about love, songs about war, songs about dead poets, and songs about those guys who pissed the band off that time. It's got at least one song about the futility of all human endeavour that nevertheless makes you want to dance like a lunatic, and a couple of songs about vampires to boot. It is, (you guessed it), a world-class Australian indie rock record. It's the new album by The Devoted Few and they can't wait for you to hear it.

Craig Schuftan December 08

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