<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi!<div><br></div><div>Hope you're having a great summer.</div><div><br></div><div>I wanted to alert you to the fact that the debut album from England's <b>WU LYF</b> - "<b>GO TELL FIRE TO THE MOUNTAIN</b>" - is coming out next week -<b> Sep 6th </b>on their own<b> L Y F Recordings via Secretly Canadian</b>. </div><div><br></div><div><i><b>If you're not already familiar with WU LYF now's the time to jump in! We can send you review downloads of this album if you are interested in covering this release - just let us know</b></i>! Cover art is attached.</div><div><br></div><div><div>The album was released in the UK and Europe in June and it picked up a lot of excited responses, including this one from <b>PItchfork</b> who deemed it worthy of their BEST NEW MUSIC tag: <a href="http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/15567-go-tell-fire-to-the-mountain/">http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/15567-go-tell-fire-to-the-mountain/</a> </div><div><br></div><div>The four members of WU LYF, aged 20 and 21, describe their music as "heavy pop" (also the name of one of their best tracks) and their music was quick to resonant in the UK, where music bible <b>Q Magazine</b> just named them "<b>the #1 Most Exciting Act In The World</b>" for 2011. Here in the US WU LYF have sold out every show they've played to date - on both the West and East Coasts. Their upcoming November tour will take them all around the country for the very first time (<b><i>dates below</i></b>!). </div><div><br></div><div>You can watch a filmed portion of their sold out Brooklyn show in June, courtesy of Jay-Z's <b>Life & Times</b> website:</div><div><a href="http://lifeandtimes.com/manchester-united">http://lifeandtimes.com/manchester-united</a></div><div><br></div><div>Some early praise for WU LYF's "Go Tell Fire To The Mountain":</div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><br></span></font></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(75, 75, 76); line-height: 16px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><i>"</i></span></font><i><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; ">Go Tell Fire to the Mountain - </span></font></i><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><i> a stunning lockstep of drum rolls, tart guitar chords, and a maddening chant for raising beers and clenched fists - makes it clear: This is life-affirming music, repulsed by hype and cynicism....Maybe you've grown past that sort of thing, but what about a record of exhilarating expanse and passion that sounds like indie rock and yet feels way bigger? Well, Go Tell Fire To The Mountain is that too. - 8.4" - </i><b>Pitchfork </b></span></font></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><i><div style="font-style: normal; font-size: medium; display: inline !important; "><i><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><br></span></font></i></div></i></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><i><div style="font-style: normal; font-size: medium; display: inline !important; "><i><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; ">"Recorded in a church in north Manchester, and constructed around chiming organs, Evans Kati's intricate guitar lines and Ellery Roberts' travel-gargling vocals, a mood of devotional intensity dominates. There are references to Spiritualized in the textures of its organs, to The Verve in the spacey, arms-aloft delivery, and to Tom Waits in Roberts' tar-deep growl. But overall this is music delivered resolutely from its own space...Their debut is a giant first leap in the right direction. -<b> 4 Stars</b>" </span></font></i><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; ">- Q Magazine</span></font></b></div></i></span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><i><div><b><br></b></div></i></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><i>"WU LYF plays music that's exhilarating blur, swathed in echo and cymbal sizzle. The songs are tremelo-strummed anthems that suddenly bound ahead with African-style guitar filigrees and drum syncopations; then they often settle back into rich chords from the organ at the church where the band made the album. Tucked amid the surging major chords are lyrics full of mayhem and desperation." - Jon Pareles in the </i><b>New York Times</b></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><b><br></b></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; font-size: medium; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; ">"</span></font></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; font-size: medium; "><i><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; ">Go Tell Fire To The Mountain does not disappoint. The stark contrast between frontman Ellery Robert's guttural, yell-sing vocals and the squeaky-clean instrumentation not only works harmoniously, but also creates a distinct and commanding sound. - <b>88%"</b> - </span></font></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; font-size: medium; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; ">FILTER </span></font></b></span></b></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><b><br></b></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; font-size: medium; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><div style="font-weight: normal; font-size: medium; "><i><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; ">"WU LYF's lead singer belongs to a long line of wounded howlers that stretches back through Honus Honus, Isaac Brock and Tom Waits....WU LYF has already managed to force something uniquely LYF-ian - songs at once raw and rambunctious but often soaring and celestial. Go Trll Fire is packed with Long Crowded West guitars, cathedral-filling organs and jittery Animal Collective percussion. -<b> 8/10</b> "</span></font></i><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; ">- Under The Radar </span></font></b></div><div style="font-weight: normal; font-size: medium; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><br></span></font></div><div style="font-weight: normal; font-size: medium; "><div><i><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; ">"The whole record has a brass-balled sense of its own destiny that brazens straight through...What you hear in the music is honesty: a band who packed themselves off to a disused church for three weeks, didn't bother with a producer, and just got on with layering in on the joy they found in sound. - <b>8/10</b>" -</span></font></i><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "> NME</span></font></b></div></div><div style="font-weight: normal; font-size: medium; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><br></span></font></b></div><div style="font-weight: normal; font-size: medium; "><i><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; ">"..fragile, densely-woven keyboard and guitar riffs that wind, fuse and diverge with their own mysterious majesty, like ragged binds of mountaintop heather - <b>8/10</b> " - </span></font></i><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; ">VICE</span></font></b></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><b><br></b></span></i></span></div></span></font></b></span></b></span></font></div><div><i><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; ">"Ecstatic, defiant, ambitious, rebellious." -</span><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; "><b>Nylon </b></span></font></font></i></div><div><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><br></span></font></b></div><div><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; ">WU LYF's FIRST FULL NORTH AMERICAN TOUR:</span></font></b></div><div><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><br></span></font></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; color: rgb(58, 55, 55); line-height: 18px; ">11/05 – Philadelphia, PA @ Voyeur<br style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">11/06 – Washington, DC @ Rock & Roll Hotel<br style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">11/08 – Brooklyn, NY @ Music Hall of Williamsburg<br style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">11/10 – Boston, MA @ Middle East<br style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">11/11 – Montreal, Quebec @ Il Motore<br style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">11/12 – Toronto, Ontario @ Horseshoe Tavern<br style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">11/14 – Chicago, IL @ Empty Bottle<br style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">11/15 – Minneapolis, MN @ 7th Street Entry<br style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">11/18 – Vancouver, British Columbia @ Electric Owl<br style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">11/19 – Seattle, WA @ The Crocodile<br style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">11/21 – San Francisco, CA @ The Independent<br style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">11/22 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Troubadour</span></b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><div>For photos/ interviews and tickets for the tour drop me a line!</div><div><br></div><div>Many thanks for your time!</div></div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div></div></body></html>