September 2, 2010

Here are some of Lauren’s 35mm slide photos from the first tracking sessions for our new album. We had them blown up and stuck to the walls at the ‘Come to the Village” film clip launch party at Oxford Art Factory last month

September 1, 2010

A house on a walnut farm in rural NSW, near Oberon. Where snakes and late night recording do not the neighbours concern. February 2010.

August 29, 2010
August 6, 2010
August 3, 2010
‘Come to the Village’
This band makes me angry. Every release proves their quality. Every song builds on what has gone previously. The conversation of Judson’s and Roberts’ guitars has become ever more articulate. On this, the insistence of that interplay makes for something that surely can’t be ignored by the wider world for much longer, surely. The echoed vocals are both seductive but perhaps suggesting said village may be the one from The Prisoner. Bedeviled by the ‘psychedelic’ pigeonhole, they’re much more than that.
Drum Media (Sydney) 
Single Reviews with Ross Clelland
3rd August 2010 
August 2, 2010

July 26, 2010
A few years ago, Blue Mountains outfit Belles Will Ring were held up as the harbingers of a new Australian psychedelia but neither the band nor the movement stuck around. However, Come to the Village (4/5), their comeback single, is something else: a menacing invocation that uses paranoid harmonies and serrated guitar parts to turn rural wistfulness into a nightmarish prelude. The track’s village of choice could well be that of the damned.
The Age (Melbourne) 
Review by Craig Mathieson
Fri 23rd July 2010 
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Come to the Village

Belles Will Ring have diverged from the road they travelled when their first album was released, 2007’s psychedelic pop canon Mood Patterns. With the new 3-track single Come To The Village accompanying their forthcoming full-length 2nd album, they have distilled the essence of Belles Will Ring into something sparer, darker and thematically driven. The band’s core songwriters Liam Judson and Aidan Roberts spent the better part of 2009 writing a collection of songs centred around an agreed theme — the idea of escape, and its many forms — from civilization, unexpected trouble, or from pre-determined paths. Inspired by the open spaces and strange mental states that accompany touring (something Belles Will Ring did a lot of in 2008 and 2009), the songs came easily, and the band then took a sojourn over two weeks in a NSW country estate to work the songs into the context of the full band.

Refreshed by the open spaces and distraction-free creative environment, it was here that Belles Will Ring recorded the blood and bones of precisely the kind of record they have wanted to make ever since Mood Patterns; a true road-trip of an album, the songs at once timeless and contemplative, spiked with the adrenaline of a chase to get away from reality. The as-yet untitled full-length LP will be released in late 2010, covering the full gamut of this new-found dramatic focus within the songs, as elucidated in Come To The Village; all shades from light to dark, peppered by the familiar sound of Belles Will Ring’s vintage guitar interplay, militaristic rhythm section and psychedelic folk harmonies.

Come To The Village is available digitally now on Remote Control Records via www.itunes.com/belleswillring