Sire Press Release For The Sound Album

With a raw, sixties-sparked style capturing the band's musical roots, Sound, the latest from Engfland's tasty The Mighty Lemon Drops, finds the foursome in top form with a sound that reraches around your preconceptions. Following from the group's dynamic 1990 disc, Laughter, and coming straight off a four-month U.S. tour, Sound is the Drops at the top of their form: melodic, rollicking and a whole lot of fun.

Formed in Wolverhampton, U.K, in 1985, The Mighty Lemon Drops sharp-edged pop and roll quickly caught the attention of local audiences and soon spread, as the band embarked on an extensive of country-wide touring. The group's debut, independently-released single "Like An Angel" was an alternative hit and led to the inclusion of another Drops classic, "Happy Head", on a 1986 New Musical Express compilation. A bidding war among no less than nine labels resulted in a signing to the feisty Blue Guitar label in the U.K with a subsequent Sire Records pact following.

Stephen Street (of Smiths reknown) produced the Mighty lemon Drops debut album, also called Happy Head, providing proof of the group's over-the-top live response and featuring many of their performance favourites, including the singles "Other Side Of You" and "My Biggest Thrill". The Drops followed it up with a U.S. tour, garnering cult status and spawning the U.S - only mini-lp Out Of Hand, a chart topper on college radio.

World Without End was the band's second fully-fledged studio effort and copntained two scintillating singles, "Fall Down (Like The Rain) and "Inside Out". Graduating from the controlled mayhem of Happy Head with the help of producer Tim Palmer (Robert Plant, The Mission, House of Love), the abum was multi-textured, musically refined tour de force that landed in the U.K. Top 40 and was another hit on American college radio.

1988 and early '89 were spent on a barnstorming 120-date world tour, which included sold-out venues in the U.S., the U.K., Brazil and across Europe. 1990 found the Drops back in the studio - this time Peter Gabriel's state-of-the-art facility in Bath, working on a third long player. The result, the abovementioned Laughter, sparked yet more touring, this time with the focus on the States where they headed the bill on the acclaimed Laughter tour with label mates The Ocean Blue and John Wesley Harding.

Earlier this year, The Drops returned, fresh and fired up from the road, to record a new album, this time with producer Andy Paley (Brian Wilson and J.W Harding) and engineer Mark Linett. The result is Sound featuring the track "Unkind" (also the subject of a video by director Howard Greenhalgh, the man behind the camera for the Cocteau twins, Lush and the Jesus And Mary Chain). Sound, recorded live in the studio with a minimum of takes, highlights the raw-edged, immediate energy of the group's concert performances and features the most memorable melodies yet from a band know for its tunes. With the release of Sound, the Drop's most engaging and satisfying effort to date, the group will be hitting U.S. stages again in the near future on a cosat-to-coast tour.

Sound. It's what The Mighty Lemon Drops are all about.

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