Saturday 12.15.07: MELLOWDRONE

Mellowdrone

If there’s ever an award to be given to an unsigned act that’s opened for some of the coolest bands, it’s hands down – Mellowdrone. Aside from touring with The Smiths’ iconic Johnny Marr and his group The Healers (both in Europe and America) this Jonathan Bates- led project has also logged stage time with The Killers, Secret Machines, Elbow and Fire Theft. Along the way, the enigmatic entity also inked a major label deal and readied the official national debut disc Box by recording at various Los Angeles studios with producer Tony Berg (Beck, X). The results are a hodgepodge of all the aforementioned road mates, plus a lot of laptop derived electronics that move from melancholy to dreaminess to downright pulsating in one instance. – Concertlivewire.com