I Start Counting Announce CD And Digital Release Of Rare Demos; Listen To "Million Headed Monster"

I START COUNTING   ANNOUNCE CD AND DIGITAL RELEASE OF RARE DEMOS   RE-FUSED & EJECTED OUT MARCH 25   LISTEN TO “MILLION HEADED MONSTER”

Courtesy: Mute

I START COUNTING today announce the CD and digital release of two albums of rare tracks and demos from 1985 and 1986. Re-fused and Ejected are out March 25.   Previously only available on (sold out) cassette for the 2021 Independent Label Market in London, the albums compile unreleased tracks and demos recorded in 1985 and 1986 for their albums My Translucent Hands (1986) and Fused (1988).   Listen to “Million Headed Monster” from Ejected here. Listen to “Talk About The Weather” from Re-fused here.   Pre-order Re-fused and Ejected here.   I Start Counting are David Baker and Simon Leonard. The duo formed in 1982 and signed to Mute in 1984, although their history with the label started much earlier when Simon Leonard jumped on stage in 1979 to break up a tussle between Daniel Miller and Robert Rental at a Paris performance of The Normal & Robert Rental. I Start Counting’s first singles, “Letters to a Friend” and “Still Smiling,” were both produced by Miller and preceded two album releases, My Translucent Hands (1986) and Fused (1989). By the beginning of the ‘90s, Baker and Leonard had become Fortran 5 and released three albums for the label before reincarnating in 1996 as Komputer, the name they continue to record under.   Baker and Leonard, through all their iterations, have a very British knack of weaving pop masterpieces from often suburban and mundane subject matter. “Talk About The Weather” and “625” deal with youthful crushes and TV addiction. Throughout their releases, the duo take on small town discos, big dirty cities, young love, and serial killers through the prism of electronics such as the Korg PolySix and the Greengate DS3 sampler.   .     Re-fused Tracklisting 1. Talk About The Weather  2. You And I  3. 625  4. Grass Snake  5. Pretty Too  6. Birmingham  7. The I Can't Express  8. Lose Him  9. Say Something    Ejected Tracklisting      1. Charlie 2. Modern Sunbathing 3. Is She On Her Own 4. Cooler Than Calcutta 5. Red Car 6. My Sister's Friend 7. Million Headed Monster  8. I'm A Murderer  9. You Can't Write That Down  10. Rawhide   Pre-order Re-fused and Ejected Listen to “Million Headed Monster” Listen to “Talk About The Weather” I START COUNTING: SPOTIFY | APPLE MUSIC MUTE: FACEBOOK | TWITTER | INSTAGRAM