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		CORONET BLUE Coronet Blue $24.95 AUD Customers outside Australia don't pay GST You can also buy online from iTunes AND CDBaby

John Rooney (The Lonely Hearts) and Anthony Bautovich (The Lonely Hearts, The Orange Humble Band) are two guys from Sydney who've spent a fair swag of their lives playing in rock'n'roll bands with a savage and determined bent towards hard guitar hooks, great melodies, a real sense of dynamics - and a massive dose of spirit and passion.

When Rooney and Bautovich decided to record an album together as Coronet Blue, Rooney approached American Mitch Easter to gauge his interest in working on it. English radio broadcaster Andy Kershaw once described Easter, musician, producer and engineer, as "the coolest man in America". He's worked with power pop legends such as Chris Stamey, Peter Holsapple, The Sneakers, Marshall Crenshaw, the dB's, Kimberley Rew, and more recently, Ken Stringfellow and The Orange Humble Band. Easter has also produced recordings by Suzanne Vega, Pavement and is probably best known for his early work with R.E.M. (Chronic Town mini-album(1982), Murmur (1983) and Reckoning (1984)).

Easter liked the tapes Rooney sent across to him and Rooney hopped on a plane to the US, leaving behind a disappointed Bautovich who couldn't take time away from work to travel. Together with a bunch of Easter's cohorts, Rooney set about assembling the basis of Coronet Blue's self-titled album, the two sharing production and arrangement roles and Easter playing all lead guitars. Rooney then returned to Sydney where Bautovich added his vocals and a variety of other Sydney-based musicians augmented the tapes, which were subsequently sent back to the States for Easter to mix.

The result is nothing less than a power pop gem, a record that soars and roars with glorious harmonies and melodies coupled with some sublime singing and songwriting. Now available for the first time with 5 bonus tracks representing the complete Easter sessions, the record still sounds fresh, powerful and melodic. While the influences of the likes of The Beatles, Big Star, The Raspberries, The Plimsouls and The Shoes are there, Coronet Blue have moulded their influences into a sound that is simply that of Coronet Blue.

Track Listing

1. Mission Bell
2. Brightest Flame
3. Black Angel
4. Particular Kind Of Girl
5. Givin' You All The Love
6. For Too Long A Secret
7. So Many (The Mystery Song)
8. Auf Wiedersehen
9. When Will Your Love Be Mine
10. Fool In Love
11. Surrender
12. Something You Can't Miss

BONUS TRACKS
13. Tenterhooks
14. The Spell
15. Tonight
16. No Faith No Heart
17. After Passion

REVIEWS
Sponiczine.com
Skinnys website
The Glass Eye Magazine (US)
Action Attack Helicopter magazine
Ink19.com
Erasing Clouds Website
Rip It Up
Delusions of Adequacy Website
Americana UK Website
Rolling Stone
Pop Culture Press
Ian Gray - Mitch Easter Lets Active fansite
Pennyblack Music Website