#51 Seller of 2005! 8.6 on Pitchfork. SPECIAL IMPORT. Norwegian Serena Maneesh present their self-titled, full-length debut Serena Maneesh with eleven songs that slide down a razor's edge of distortion and pop whimsy, raucous guitar work and underwater static, angelic voices and primal screams. The strange melodies are strikingly original, yet they strike to the heart of something familiar: a classic rock guitar lick, a wound, a kiss. Inspired by everything from Southern blues via Neu! to    [ read more ]

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While working on their new album, Serena-Maneesh & Smalltown Supersound wanted to give you a glimpses of the early days. Tweaked & all beautifully pushed to the red. Most of the material on this double album was released as two EPs prior to the self titled debut; "Zuruck" & "Fixxations", both on Honeymilk, covering the time 1999-2003. This is the first time the material has been released outside of Norway. In addition to the original EP material this double album also contains new re-wrappings/mixes, video   [ read more ]

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Serena Maneesh's 2005 debut album was an impressive work of neo-shoegaze, neo-noise rock that seemed to come out of nowhere -- unless you lived in Norway or were hip enough to hear either of the two EPs that preceded the record, that is. Released in 2002, Fixxations caught a lighter, less epic-sounding band able to rip off a super pretty pop song like "Drive Me Home the Lonely Nights," choogle through the tough rocker "Blues Like Beehive," or drift through the spacy "Ballad of Jezebel" like a   [ read more ]

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