Ok. Its Xmas. What in gods name are you going to get your great Aunt and your second cousin twice removed? gah!

But never fear. Help is at hand. We're offering out all our 2008 album releases at a bargain price of £5 per title. But even better than that, you can buy all 6 2008 releases for a mere £25. That includes the eighth best album of the year (not our words, the words of Mojo magazine) The Week That Was, Tokyo Police Club's debut full length, sophomore albums from Absentee and El Perro Del Mar, the very wonderful School of Language and the marvellous Ruby Suns. For those of an unmathematical mind it works out as £4.16 recurring per album.

And thats not all. in the spirit of goodwill to all man and womankind we're giving away a free 8 track compilation of rare, unreleased and forthcoming Memphis music with every purchase. Just remember to click add it to you basket before checking out.

The Ruby Suns

Sea Lion

School of Language

Sea From Shore

El Perro Del Mar

From The Valley To The Stars

The Week That Was

The Week That Was

Absentee

Victory Shorts

Memphis Albums 2008 Special Offer

Tokyo Police Club

Elephant Shell Bonus Track Version

Various Artists

Memphis End Of 2008 Give Away

ABSENTEE - VICTORY SHORTS - NEW ALBUM PROMOTION.

Before reading on please note that if you buy Victory Shorts from the Memphis shop (either LP or CD) you will get a free Absentee beer matt AND the choice of one of any of the Absentee 7"s subject to availability. Just email your request to info@memphis-industries.com with your order number and what 7" you'd like.

Here's a little info on the album:::::::::::::::::::::::::::

Born to the sounds of Barry Manillow and The Carpenters, raised on romantic comedies, and schooled in failed love and misfiring lust… Absentee emerge well-versed in the rigours of romance with their finest album to date, Victory Shorts.

Finding a seat somewhere between unreachable romanticism and hopeless realism, Victory Shorts offers lush mini romantic tragedies for those who thought Casablanca ended a little too abruptly.

Album opener ‘Shared’ sets the scene with a couple pleased as punch that they found each other, until things take a darker turn with Absentee smashing their way through ‘Boy, Did She Teach You Nothing?’ latest EP title-track ‘Bitchstealer’ and ‘Love Has Had Its Way’ in an attempt to get to the truth of the matter: Happy endings don’t come easy.

‘The Nurses Don’t Notice a Thing’ takes us on a walk with someone looking for hope in a maternity wing: “our eyes meeting as your waters break and I’m born again as him or her,” meditating on the beauty of innocence as: “the simplest feelings of love explode into the room like cowboys in saloons… I want to clap but it seems inappropriate.” In ‘We Smash Plates’ the lovers’ first argument and consequent makeup is summed up in a mess of broken crockery: “I ask you kindly to take a seat whilst I’m sweeping broken china from around your feet, like a miner bringing riches from the core... we both smile knowing there will always be more”.

By album closer ‘That Old Ghost’, we’re left contemplating a lovers’ grip: “the way that you hold me, it won’t be my heart that breaks first” and the enduring qualities of love found the hard way: “you don’t have to ask me if you want me to stay... I’m not a bird, I’m not a whore... you can just clap your hands and make me run away”.

Marked with the influence of Johnny Cash, Pavement and The Velvet Underground, produced/engineered/mixed by Nick Terry (Klaxons, Libertines, Bernard Butler), and shot through with the originality and humour we’ve come to expect from Absentee, Victory Shorts stands alone as the band’s strongest, most honest record yet.

Absentee

Victory Shorts

The Week That Was, written and recorded in late 2007 at Field Music's 8 Studio in Sunderland, emerged from an imagined crime thriller dreamt up by Peter and inspired by Paul Auster's labyrinthine storytelling. Peter started writing the songs as if they were moments, instances of perspectives within this story. The story was left to fall away, leaving a puzzle of musical snapshots.

Musically the record is an expansive tribute, paying direct (and indirect) homage to the wildly ambitious Linn Drum and Fairlight experiments of Kate Bush, Peter Gabriel and Tin Drum-era Japan. This fused with the typically detailed arrangements and sense of drama makes The Week That Was a brain-shattering, 32 minute epic, straying further outside the conventions of most indie-guitar music.

“startling concept pop…dazzling” uncut ****

"a milestone on the path to a New Progressive Pop… Touched by Genius" **** Mojo Album of the Month

The album is out on 18 August but you can pre-order now from the Memphis shop and if you do you'll get a free The Week That Was poster.

Also available are The Week That Was Ts in various sizes...

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The Week That Was

The Week That Was