FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE –
Alternative dark-rock musicians
Johnathan|Christian have released their long-awaited LP record album,
titled, “Beautiful Hideous.” Their debut LP release is comprised
of 10 original tracks and remixes by UK industrial pioneer Martin
Bowes and New York avant-garde artist Bryin Dall making for a
colorful and comprehensive introduction to the Johnathan|Christian
sound. The record, which has an official release date of 8 November
2013, has already begun to hit mainstream media with considerable
force, bringing fans of the dark music subculture thronging to
Johnathan|Christian websites and music outlets.
Johnathan|Christian are Johnathan
Mooney and Christian Granquist, veterans of the alternative music
scene. Composer Johnathan Mooney originally played keyboard for New
York's popular band, The New Creatures, and is now living in Orange
County, California. Christian Granquist is well known in the Swedish
post-punk scene having played with the members of the pop trio Day
Behavior and is the keyboardist for the Stockholm electronic band The
Atom.
Johnathan|Christian cite darkwave
artistic influences including such performers as Sisters of Mercy,
Bauhaus, Depeche Mode, Joy Division, Siouxsie & The Banshees, The
Mission UK and the Cure. Intuitively, their own music typifies the
traditional darkwave sound, adding in soaring, epic refrains and
dramatic fugues that create a style all their own.
Of their particular style and
chemistry, Mooney writes, “Being more of a composer than a lyrical
writer, my music is all voxless [without vocals]. When I come up with
an idea for a song, it's not just a song, “it's a vision. I'm
actually hearing a whole storyline in my head like scoring to a film.
When I heard one of [Granquist's] Atom tracks on, I knew right away
that a unique voice like his would really compliment my dark vision.”
Singer Granquist concurs. “Lyrically,”
he writes, “I seek inspiration in pretty dark themes: conflicts,
separation anxiety and death. These require a certain type of
quasi-cinematic ambiance which I'm not fully able to convey in my own
music. Johnathan, on the other hand, had it already perfectly wrapped
in a black little box. I directly saw that my voice structure and
lyrics would be a perfect fit with his picturesque style of writing
very emotional music.”
Dave Kendall, creator of MTV's “20
Minutes” and host on Sirius/XM's First Wave Channel, writes of
Johnathan|Christian, “[This is] grand, rich, high-class
melancholia. Get your Goth on.”
The United Kingdom's Nightbreed Radio
calls their sound, “Epic!”
DJ Cruel Britannia of the Fadeout
Podcast said, “Their sound is an accessible yet dark blend of
well-constructed tracks which would be just as at home in the closing
credits of a film as they would by themselves on your MP3 player.”
DJ Paul V of The Independent FM said
that Johnathan|Christian have a “Definite Peter Murphy vibe.”
“[Johnathan|Christian have] real
quality and emotion,” said Martin Bowes of Attrition.
The LP record, “Beautiful Hideous”
by Johnathan|Christian is available online worldwide beginning 8
November 2013, with their cover of Duran Duran's “The Chauffeur”
as the first single.
-S. McCauley
Staff Press Release Writer
MondoTunes
The LP “Beautiful Hideous”
is distributed globally by MondoTunes (www.MondoTunes.com)
and is available at iTunes for convenient purchase and download
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