Buy CD here: https://myviolentego.bandcamp.com/album/one-day-youll-laugh-at-the-sad-saga-that-was “..washed out effects drenched shimmer, dreamy abstract pop drift, and hushed ethereal pop ambience. 4AD loosed from its more traditional song like structures, the sounds allowed to float freely, blurred clouds of tangled melody, hushed angelic voices, looped melodic mesmer stretched into dreamy droned out drifts of ephemeral dreampop” – Aquarius records "Well, this is a very pleasant CD. It's a collection of warm and immersive shoegaze from a Scot and an Italian who met on the internet and started exchanging recordings a decade ago. They released an album in 2003 and appear to have a new one in the works, but for now they're reminding us of their existence with this odds-and-sods collection of unreleased recordings and cuts from various EPs which were previously only available in very scarce quantities or as download-only releases. This is pretty slow-paced, and generally based around violin, delay-drenched guitar and female vocals. Some of the songs have beats, some just drift by under their own steam. This is definitely a shoegaze record in essence but it's not got that propulsive feel to it that you might expect; there's elements of drone and slowcore, it even has shades of trip-hop in places to my ears. When a groove does turn up, as late as the 13th track, 'La C'est La Voix', it certainly is welcome, with sweeping strings and fingerpicked guitar venturing into Morricone territory while the ethereal vocals keep it from sounding too much like something from an entirely different record. In fact, a few of these songs later on have more of this post-rock feel, much more of an indie rock take on shoegaze instead of the dreamy ambient angle. At their best moments they have a real insidious intensity to them that really catches you off guard, as the textures pile up around one another until you're being swept along by all these dense, milky tones." - normanrecords.com "Such a long title, so many record companies, and a long album, too. You can dispense with the first two quite easily (ignore! ignore!) but you won't be able to do that with the music, no sirree. There’s nothing egotistical, nor anything violent, about this startling set of twenty-two songs that stretch ethereal beauty to its limits. It lasts for one whole hour and goes on for eternity. Apparently this is a comeback after eight years, although the music here is all second-hand, garnered from material recorded between 2000-2005, but what material. They have produced a million dollar suit (or suite) from a patchwork of previous outings, a mix of tunes that fill your home and your heart, if you let them. This is shoegazer rock with a vision, bliss-out with a smiling face, MBV guitar meanderings with a direction. These stripped down songs work because they’ve been nurtured, as if this duo have rediscovered them, massaged the life back into them, and then placed them under wraps... until their time had finally come - and that’s now. Make way in your collection for delights like "What If She Leaves", the sheer beauty in the voice will buckle your knees, "Sleeping Song", "Pesky Fly" (MBV new track, anyone?), “La C'est La Voix" (Vinni Reilly eat your heart out), and eighteen more slices of musical delight. Buy this, and wonder." - Leicester Bangs *** My Violent Ego are back after 8 years with a new record which collects their EPs produced before and after "Carried-Along-By-Fate", full-length album dated 2003, released via the French label Ocean-Music. Fully remastered in 2010/2011, "One day you'll laugh at the sad saga That Was" contains a selection of tracks from - Lìtost EP, - Feel Yr Sleep EP (2001), - Rejected by Fate EP (2003), - and the remastered/restored collection of tracks released in 2005 in internet, previously as demos, with title Clicks & Hisses. //////////////////////////////////////////// 22 tracks, total timing, 59'56''. Clicks & Hisses EP: 1. Plam 02:54 2. Swoonow 02:17 3. Go bed 01:08 4. Come on, sleep 02:51 5. Crawling 01:20 6. Saint My-self 02:00 7. What if She leaves 02:36 8. Well, she left 03:36 9. Pesky fly 03:07 Unreleased: 10. A loop in yr garden 02:16 Rejected by fate EP: 11. Sleeping song 02:18 12. French feeling of a tragic song (vers. 2) 02:18 Unreleased: 13. Là c'est la voix 03:24 Feel Yr Sleep EP: 14. Untitled, uncomplete 01:58 15. Plom 04:38 16. ALTHOUGH THANKS FOR WASTING MY TIME 01:48 17. Slow motion into sound (my head exploding) 02:16 Litost EP: 18. Enraptured 02:31 19. Loop yr self 01:46 20. Trail of light (stellar version) 03:49 21. Plom (early demo) 04:40 Unreleased: 22. Small consolations 04:25 //////////////////////////////////////////// Hardcopy - digipack format, CD, - co-released by Sometimes, Handwriting and White Birch records, more info: www.myviolentego.com | info@myviolentego.com www.discogs.com/label/Sometimes%20Records | handwriting-records.bandcamp.com | whitebrecords.bandcamp.com