Mt Sims presents: Happily Ever After....Again!!

Though it's not a Hungry Eye release per se, we are happy to announce the teaming up of Mt Sims with Italy's Punch Records for the release of Happily Ever After... Again. After the release of Happily Ever After, Matt continued to work non-stop in the studio on new material with one song following the other. By the time a european version of Happily Ever After was under consideration, there was enough a wealth of new material and the european version started to look like a sequel to the story of Happily Ever After. Included are alternate mixes of "the Bitten Bite Back," "Grave," and "Love's Revenge" from Happily Ever After, and "Unwound" from the A Grave EP along with 10 new never before released songs. This will be out in late January 2010 and is available for pre-order now (in a pre-order package that includes a limited edition t-shirt). Have a look here for pre-order information!

Some more info below:

Like the sequel to a novel, Mt.Sims (Matt Sims) returns with his magnum opus entitled "Happily Ever After...Again!" as the final response to his previously released album "Happily Ever After". This new album begins where the last one left off, asking the questions "why am i here", and "how can i transcend myself". With songs like Grave and The Bitten bite back linking the past to the present, Sims's text dissect the human condition, giving it a hard look and pointing out the repercussions and could be repercussions of our behavior. As one sinks deeper in the head of Mt.Sims, it becomes clear that this album is a story dealing with faith and the worship of ideology. From the perspective a solider with many faces, Sims skips around from army to army, side to side, life to death, present to forgotten. From song to song, the one can hear a voice questioning his own identity and the way that he sees the world. Candy coated, a song of violent obsession, screams in ending "how could you love me to destroy me?" Disappearing act drives like a car on a never-ending highway. What the driver must deliver is his own soul. As Sims sings " I see my footprints on the floor but i can't see myself anymore", one can realize the voice crying out from the speaker, in an acousmatic tradition, is separated from its owner who at this point has vanished from site. As the Soldier changes faces, he is Orpheus, he is a Kamikaze pilot, he is the ghost of childhood, he is a gypsy and he is finally Matt Sims. This album is a journey where fiction and fact intertwine and leave cold impressions about human behavior and our need to believe in something. Lyrically this album shows that most of the time our ideologies need us. From floating psychedelic textures and screeching synths to strange yet beautiful melodies that writhe and twist around deadly disco beats, one can come closer to understanding the necessity of contradiction in modernity. One may find themselves by losing themselves in this soon to be cult classic. A mixture of Electronic and acoustic, this album delivers an environment to question all that you believe is true.... but don't believe a word we say.




RELEASE DATE 30 JANUARY 2010

Tracklist:

1. The Bitten Bite Back
2. Grave
3. Love's Revenge
4. Unwound
5. Candy Coated
6. Disappearing Act
7. In Exile
8. Hellbent
9. New Authority Volunteers
10. Fall Back
11. The Shattering Of Cyrstal
12. A Simple View
13. Fragile Breaks Fragile
14. Shelter

Mt Sims- new video for "Grave" out now!

Berlin based band Mt. Sims has just released a video for the song "Grave" off of the recently released third album album on Hungry Eye Records entitled "Happily Ever After". The song, says vocalist/ guitarist Matt Sims, "deals with human nature which, going along with animal nauture, has a tendency to fight against itself. Willingly we fight and defeat ourselves in an attempt to save ourselves." Produced by photographer and former East Village Radio program director Echo Danon and directed by Danon and Bart Grieb, and shot on location in the abandoned Spree Park in Berlin. Danon is a long time collaborator with Matt Sims, having previously shot photos for the band, done some production work for the previous Mount Sims album "White Light" and background vocals on the Mount Sims/ the Hacker track "Traces," and even worked with Matt on the band/ project So Does the Fire (http://www.myspace.com/sodoesthefire). Grieb is is an independent film director and visual artist, as well as the president of Cygnet Films. This is his first project with Mt. Sims.

http://www.hungryeyerecords.com
http://www.myspace.com/mtsims
http://echodanonphotography.blogspot.com/

Mt Sims- video for "A Grave" forthcoming!

In a short amount of time, Mt Sims will release a video for the staggering song "Grave," which appeared on Happily Ever After as well as on the A Grave EP.

It was a 2 camera shoot filmed in the abandoned Spreepark in Berlin over the course of 2 days by Bart Grieb and Matt's long-time collaborator Echo Danon. Bart is an NYC photographer (currently shooting an A&E biography), has been a gaffer for the past 7 years, and owns Cygnet Films, the lighting rental company. Echo is a familiar face in the music, photography, radio, and film world herself, who, along with shooting camera B, did make-up and helped with wardrobe and production.

As a teaser, you'll find a screen shot by Echo Danon below:

Mt Sims pre-orders = all shipped!

By now you should know that the Mt Sims- Happily Ever After album is out! Be sure to ask your local record store for it if they don't have it yet! The pre-orders have been shipped including the the ones with the t-shirts. We've got limited sizes left of the shirts from this first batch we did with the pre-orders so you might want to check in with us before ordering to make sure we've got your size.

Also, Happily Ever After is now obviously available digitally as well, so if that floats yer boat, head over to iTunes, Amazon, Rhapsody, eMusic, what have you, to get it.

Here's a nice little picture of what you t-shirt orderers can expect:



And then, here's some footage from Mt Sims' recent Berlin release party a few weeks back!

Mt Sims pre-orders shipped!

If you placed a pre-order for the Mt Sims- A Grave 12" it's now shipped. There's still a small handful of the test-press pre-order versions left limited to 50 so get them now! It's available now for download now on most digital download stores if you are more digitally inclined. The vinyl version will hit the store's shelves in a few scant weeks. The covers look phenomenal, if we may say so ourselves. Stay tuned for lots more Mt Sims related news in the coming weeks!