I Start Counting Share Unreleased Track "Birmingham"; Two Albums Of Rare Demos Out April 8

I START COUNTING   RELEASE 2-TRACK SINGLE FEATURING UNRELEASED TRACK “BIRMINGHAM”   NEW ALBUMS OF UNRELEASED TRACKS & RARE DEMOS RE-FUSED & EJECTED OUT APRIL 8 ON CD AND DIGITAL PLATFORMS

Courtesy: Mute

I START COUNTING today release a 2-track single, “Birmingham” / “Talk About The Weather,” taken from their forthcoming albums of unreleased tracks and demos from 1985 and 1986. Re-fused and Ejected are out April 8 on CD and digital platforms.   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 “Birmingham” 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” Listen to “Birmingham” I START COUNTING: SPOTIFY | APPLE MUSIC MUTE: FACEBOOK | TWITTER | INSTAGRAM