MONDO JET SET ~ HENRY AFTER A NIGHTLIFE

An arty, rocky cerebral indie band whose latest record is truly an undiscovered classic. It's almost painfully cool, shifting effortlessly through inventive pop gears with uplifting jangly tunes like the evening radio friendly 'Bad Lines' or the driving guitar buzz and vocal distortion of 'Siren Song'. This album is a bubbling brew of Summer of Love ambience, haunting melodies, slashing riffs and even chilled out space-rock. Dedicated people like Pink Hedgehog Records sending us amazing records like this really do make it all worth while. So check out their website, get a few listens and buy their record.

Reviewed in Fuse, UK

If it depended on quality, honesty and integrity, the English band already would be has some time in the first division of the English rock. But as nor always to be best it is enough to enter in the elite of Britpop, the Mondo Jet Set continues battling in independence, presenting as business card the sensational record Henry After A Nightlife. In my collection of digital musical archives, I placed the English band Mondo Jet Set in the folder of shoegazers. This was in first hearing, since in moment initial, what sobressai in Henry After A Nightlife is the vocal ones whispered and guitars full of effect that remember some great bands of the start of years 90, as You Laugh, same Chapterhouse or the Teenage Fanclub of the first record (Catholic Education). But transferring hours and hours hearing the compact disc this impression if undoes. Henry... is a work sufficiently varied and that it does not present, as a whole, linking with this or that nomenclature of styles. It has echoes of Beach Boys, You Laugh, Teenage Fanclub, psicodélicas English bands of the end of years 60, Superchunk (at the agitated moments more), among others.

They are the eleven tracks that the compact disc composes and, at no moment and in no hearing I "jumped" some music. This already is good signal: it means that the record is good of if hearing of the start to the end. For speaking in start, the track that opens 'The Band Never Happened For Us', is one shining mixture of shoegazer with powerpop. In a coarse definition, it would be as the Teenage Fanclub touching with the Andy Bell (Ex-Ride, current Oasis) in the vocal one. The letter seems one autobiográfica one in such a way, what it gives a touch of authenticity to the group. 'Bad Lines' follows the agitated start of the record, with the low one taking the melody and guitars to the deep one. The battery well is marked and said the rhythm of the song. 'Come Down To My Room' has one taken calm more, with guitar and basses fingerings, and battery marked well again. The vocal one is only a little little "candy" that in previous musics. 'Siren Song' well is agitated, powerpop, with well worked guitars and well vocal livened up. 'On Amber' is a psicodélica ballad that destoa of the initial rhythm of the record, but is of a gorgeous harmony. Music for meditation. Record is a heading of the next song, that starts with marked guitar and follows with a refrão indiepop well, or either, glad and soft. The variation more enters "the sour" part of music and the livened up sequence more makes of "record" one of the best ones of Henry... - without counting one finalzinho with vocal to the Beach charming Boys.

'Abandon Mission' is another music with taken powerpop, well legal. 'Firing At The Sky', in the sequence, opens in low guitar and in the line to shoegazer well, as well as the vocal one. It remembers very You laugh. E therefore is shining! 'Nightnurse' comes to follow, continuing in the line to shoegazer, however sossegada. An alone relaxante of guitar shows of that its musicians are capable. Nor it seems that 'You Know Your Lover' is the penultimate music of the record. Another test of the quality of the work: in the end, it is always the taste of "I want more". Coming back to the song, one it has taken slow one and excellent work of guitars, with a gaita insinuante to the deep one. An unusual effect of guitar gives the psicodélico touch in the end of music. Locking up this work of excellent quality, the short ballad '... And Dream Another' in makes them to dream of the next record to the Mondo Jet Set, being waited that it is so good how much this, and that it has taken the group to the deserved recognition, of critical and public. The record was launched by the Pink Hedgehog and if to want to know more on the band, is enough to clicar here to enter in the site of the group.

Reviewed at Mofo by Pedro Damian, BRAZIL

A high and wide 80s infused shoe-gazing sound with soaring sonic sorrows and sad introspective youthful male vocals over sweetly buried melodies. Nice contrasts between sustained strumming and headlong elevator shaft diving, with frail soulful soft-spoken human tenderness chiming and intoning songs and spirit into the void. Gentle melancholia nuzzles up next to angular new wavo compressed GBV pop density, but more mellowly melodic and consistently uplifting.

Reviewed in Dream Magazine by George Parsons, USA

MJS have taken the same road as the likes of Dillon Fence and The Connells. Frontman/guitarist, James has a voice like Elliot Smith or Lou Barlow. There is the rock-out electronica of 'Disco' and 'Abandon Mission' is pop with a harrowing edge. MJS are the new kings of cross genre, 'Siren Song' coming full throttle before the dreamy lull of 'Come Down To My Room'. Downright fragile in places, but never ever dull. (8/10)

Reviewed in Positive Creed by Steve C. Stone, UK

Something already sounds uebernaechtigt the music of the English quartet Mondo Jet Set (formerly Marlowe) , whereby those plumbs volume around Marks, James, Bob and Craig (Henry does not give it) different corners of the night activity. The atmospheric instrument valley 'On Amber" would have fit well on the dream-nightmareful sound tracks of Twin Peaks. The prelude 'The Band Never Happened For Us' oscillates between Einlullen and departure to the next party (between Belle And Sebastian and My Bloody Valentine). With 'Come Down To My Room' is it only first. In the drauffolgenden 'Siren Song' for it kratzige guitars come to the course only the voice remain unchanged. Carefully it slides by all songs, calmed, supported or produces contrasts. Dreampop for Nachtschwaermer. (7.5 out of 10)

Reviewed at Swiss Records by Robert Pally, SWITZERLAND

While listening to most of the tunes here, I cought myself “gazing” at the long gone shoegazing legacy of Ride, Pale Saints, Lush, My Bloody Valentine and the like, which, even though it doesn’t happen to be my cup of tea anymore, kinda brings back teenage memories. The fact that it recalls the above mentioned bands’ most memorable moments, along with all the dreamy Blunstoned vocals, Byrdsy jangle and other different kinds of B-bands influences, all mostly hidden behind the wall of indie noise, just makes the experience even more emotional. Funnily enough, the two of my fave tunes are actually the ones that seem to steal away from the concept a bit, with 'Siren Song' sounding pretty much like The Lilys, another ex-shoegazing-bunch-turned-Kinky-min’60s-beat, while the slightlydelic 'Disco', in spite of it’s misleading title, finds them somewhere between the two. Oh, and the band name also reminds me of one of my favourite ‘80s bands, which would be Paul Bevoir’s Jet Set, so it all seems like a big box of great memories.

Reviewed at Popism by Goran Obradovic, SERBIA

In need of some relaxing Americana, but not sure where to look apart from the obvious suspects? Well, Mondo Jet Set's album would be a rather good place to start. Those mourning the split of Grandaddy should check out 'Nightnurse', they won't be left disappointed. On the whole the album is reminiscent of a blissful, laid back Teenage Fanclub, which should be enough to delight anyone. It's at turns power-fully chugging and infectious ('Siren Song'), sensuously soothing instrumentals ('On Amber') and spectral swampiness ('Disco'). Another stand out is the Midlake style glossy warmth of 'You Know Your Lover'. Ok, so it's not anything earth-shatteringly groundbreaking, but it's a lovely warm album of sweet horizontal pop.

Reviewed at Russell's Reviews by Russell Barker, UK

***Highly Recommended*** (CD of The Week)

Previously known as Marlowe, MJS bring us their first full length CD under the new name. A collection of wonderful melodic lo-fi songs, available through iTunes or via the band's website.

Reviewed at Starship Overflow by Garry Lee, UK

Formerly known as Marlowe, Mondo Jet Set is a UK pop band brandishing Henry After a Nightlife, its first album under the new name. I don’t know what Marlowe was like, but MJS specializes in sweet melodies, wispy vocals and guitars that range from ringing pop to crunchy rock, equally influenced by its countryfolk in the dreampop and freakbeat movements. The band is at its best on fuzzed-out rock/pop tunes like 'Disco', 'Bad Lines' and 'Nightmare', but the psychedelic epic 'On Amber' and the glittering swoon pop of 'You Know Your Lover' indicate the group’s range. There’s a lot of promise on Henry After a Nightlife that’s already halfway to being fulfilled.

Reviewed at High Bias by Michael Toland, USA

It’s a pity there’s not more information on Mondo Jet Set’s website or on My Space about what makes this band tick because what I heard on Henry After A Nightlife is indie pop of the highest quality that reminded me of everyone yet of no-one at all. Maybe Ride but then again maybe not! There is a consistency in the 11 songs here and the brooding yet contagious ‘Disco’ is the subject of a video on a Pink Hedgehog sampler kindly sent to me by Simon Felton who is head honcho on the ‘small but perfectly formed record label’ who just keep churning out quality thinking man’s pop and such. The best thing is to head over to My Space and listen for yourselves. The album is also available on iTunes.

Reviewed in Zeitgeist by Phil Jackson, UK