We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

Roundabout

by The Major Pins

supported by
Bob Newhart
Bob Newhart thumbnail
mirisounds
mirisounds thumbnail
/

  • Streaming + Download

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    Purchasable with gift card

      €5 EUR  or more

     

  • Full Digital Discography

    57
    releases

    Get all 57 Monkey Records releases available on Bandcamp and save 80%.

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of To the Forest, Back on Track, The Universe is a Strange Place, Where I Belong, Unfolding, In the Beginning, You'll Never Know, In Love With These Hills, and 49 more. , and , .

    Purchasable with gift card

      €50.60 EUR or more (80% OFF)

     

  • Limited Edition Compact Disc
    Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    4 panel gatefold recycled card cover with a 16 page booklet featuring lyrics and illustrations.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Roundabout via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

    Sold Out
1.
No Poetry 03:03
2.
Sad Parade 04:15
buy track
3.
Robots 04:24
buy track
4.
Wreckage of Love 03:58
5.
Roundabout 02:59
6.
Naked Slug 03:15
buy track
7.
Scissors Bleed 05:46
8.
Juliet 03:18
9.
Minnesang 04:00
10.
Jungle of Lights 04:10
11.
Shoot the Moon 03:36
buy track
12.
Heart in Your Hand 03:14

about

Monkey Records is proud to announce the release of Roundabout, the debut album by Berlin-based indie-pop trio The Major Pins featuring German-born Katharina Garden (vocals, piano), Paul B Keeves from Birmingham (bass) and Henry Grant from New York (drums).

Having formed The Major Pins in 2007 in Berlin after studying music in the Netherlands and meeting her first band members at Popkurs in Hamburg, Kat decided in 2011 to record her first album, teaching herself how to do it at home with her granny´s honkey-tonk piano and singing under a blanket for an intimate sound (but also to keep the neighbours from knocking on her walls). Bass and drums were then recorded at Phil Freeborn’s Studio Kreuzberg and a bunch of friends helped out with violin, cello, guitar, clavichord, trumpet, glockenspiel and backing vocals.

Once she had recorded and produced the 12 tracks herself she brought on board Yensin Jahn, working at former Planet Roc and legendary GDR-broadcast studios by Berlin´s Spree. Yensin, who has also worked with Calexico, Lambchop, Get Well Soon and Mia, put together all the pieces of the puzzle and mixed the piano, Moog and Bontempi based alternative indie-pop album Roundabout.

Kat writes the music to be arranged in the trio. Her lyrics deal with personal experiences as well as inspiration from novels, movies or documentaries. Naked Slug for instance deals with the recent issue of chemtrails and geo-engineering, whereas Robots (the first single) is inspired by H. Murakami´s novel Kafka at the Shore. In her eyes being a songwriter gives an opportunity to handle socio-critical themes without preaching and she aims to bring to mind the power of collective consciousness and how mass media penetrates and manipulates the world.

Apart from performing with The Major Pins, Kat Garden has toured as a solo artist in Slovenia, Holland, Denmark, England, Ireland and Austria and created Playing for Integration, an EU-financed Songwriter-collective together with a bunch of amazing songwriters from several countries to start a network for handmade music and the co-writing scene.

credits

released May 17, 2013

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

Monkey Records image

Monkey Records Berlin, Germany

Monkey Records is an eclectic boutique independent record label founded in New Zealand in the year 2000 with offices in Wellington and Berlin.

contact / help

Contact Monkey Records

Streaming and
Download help

Shipping and returns

Redeem code

Report this album or account

Monkey Records recommends:

If you like Roundabout, you may also like:

Bandcamp Daily  your guide to the world of Bandcamp

On Bandcamp Radio

Saxophonist Isaiah Collier chats about his new LP and the influence of Pharoah Sanders.
listen now