Woodwork news - Summer 2008

• The Ruby Suns are suitably bathed in a particularly rosy glow as superlative reviews for their latest album “Sea Lion” continue to roll in…
  
  Independent On Sunday **** “transcendental D.I.Y dream-rock”
  
  The Times **** “when The Ruby Suns mix up Bowie's Heroes, Phil Spector, and Pale Saints, the results verge on the spiritual”
  
  Q Magazine *** “Wildly inventive”
  
  Time Out **** “there’s method in this glorious madness”
  
  NME 7/10 “A strange, lovely trip”
  
  The Independent **** “swooning, varied and fascinating”
  
  Mojo **** “Fairytale pop that’s bold and forward-looking in equal measure.” ”Even as pan-global psychedelic phantasmagorias go, this one’s a real brain-buster." "There’ll not be two more joyous tunes cruising the outer stratosphere in ’08."
  
  Word "The Flaming Lips reborn as benevolent game wardens... could be a surprise hit." "Morning Sun is particularly lovely... the same clipped tunefulness as LCD Soundsystem."
  
  And now they are to be heard on one of a short series of films about the making of the brill new Sony Foam adverts…

  
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• Sacre Bleu! Sebastien Tellier is to sing a specially recorded French language version of  “Divine”, the latest single from his album “Sexuality”, as the official French entry in the 2008 Eurovision contest in May. The original English version will be released as a single this month with new remixes and all tracks are available to put the sex appeal into your film or ad campaign. Aaaah, oooh.

• Fresh back from SXSW and Full Time Hobby have only gone and signed the hottest thing there, White Denim. No it isn’t Liz Hurley’s musical vanity project it’s insanely catchy, occasionally dirty, often sweet, garage-y pop. Look out for it on the next sampler…

• You know how last time I said that the Violent Femmes track “Blister in the Sun”  had never been licensed in the UK? Well we quickly rectified that glaring omission in the commercial use of music canon and the track can now be heard on a Foster’s beer ad in the UK only. Click here to watch.

• Other recent placements done by Woodwork Music on behalf of our artists include June Carter Cash (singing a song written by her father) “Keep on the Sunny Side” in an Austrian T-Mobile ad; Baikonour on a worldwide Volvo ad; Shawn Lee’s Ping Pong Orchestra on a trailer for the new film In Bruges; Colleen has 2 tracks in the soon to be released film version of Phillip Roth’s novel, Elegy; Murcof practically scores the whole of a brilliant new Australian thriller called Lake Mungo and Chris Joss’s track “Drink Me Hot” appears in saucy Ann Summers internet campaign.