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London Highbury Garage

London Highbury Garage

Evoking so many fragile, fleeting things with such deft simplicity, fashioning yet another of those perfect happy/sad sonic speedballs us doomed romantics constantly hunger for, [a]Madder Rose[/a]

Hello June Fool

Strange to report, but true: a 'summer record' from [a]Madder Rose[/a]....

Tragic Magic

Beware, ye [a]Gomez[/a] and all who croak in their wake, the lure of the demon technology, lest ye become [a]Dubstar[/a]....

Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms

Despite singer [B]Mary Lorson[/B]'s best efforts, songs like [B]'Real Feel'[/B] and [B]'Narco'[/B] fail to evoke any kind of atmosphere at all, much less one of battered torch-song psychosis...

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Madder Rose Biography

Madder Rose was a New York City-based alternative rock band who recorded in the 1990s. The band was fronted by Mary Lorson, who shared songwriting duties with guitarist Billy Cote. The two singer/songwriters continued their collaboration, Cote as guest producer on Lorson's three discs with Saint Low, Lorson as guest vocalist on Cote's Jazz Cannon disc. Lorson and Cote have also created the original scores to several films, notably HBO's documentary of Sally Mann) and in 2008 released a disc with Kathy Ziegler as The Piano Creeps. The name Madder Rose came from the herb-based paint rose madder. Many of their songs, including "Panic On" and "Car Song", were featured in John Peel's end-of-year round-up, the Festive Fifty, major feature films, and television shows. The band released three albums on Atlantic Records, and one on Cooking Vinyl, before breaking up in 1999.

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Madder Rose Discography

Madder Rose albums.

  • Bring It Down - 1993 (Seed Records/US)
  • Tragicmagic - 1998 (Cooking Vinyl/GB)
  • Hello June Fool - 1999 (Thirsty Ear/US)

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