Here we present Greater Forces from our forthcoming album 'Inner Realms'. More details will be revealed in due time. 

Music by Gang Violins.
Mastered by Nathan Moody at Obsidian Sound. 
Artwork by Johnny Sipp.

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We’re giving away a new track, 'Close', as a holiday gift. 🎁 It will be available on Bandcamp from now through New Year’s. 
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Mint Julep - Close (free holiday download)

From the forthcoming 2CD compilation of remixes, rarities and unreleased tracks entitled "Memory and Matter", coming out on October 7 on Darla Records. The album can now be preordered here: www.manual.bandcamp.com

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"Memory and Matter comprises selected remixes and rarities from the past seven years, nine of them previously unreleased and many of them only issued only on hard to find EPs or as Japanese release bonus tracks. Far from being merely a collection of every single oddity, these tracks were carefully selected into a consistent whole that maintains the same high standard of proper Manual albums. This two-disc compilation is also a labor of love.

Like it's predecessor, Lost Days, Open Skies and Streaming Tides, released in 2007, disc one demonstrates Jonas Munk aka Manual's expertise in creating elegantly layered, shoegazey pop, while disc two focuses on minimalist, slow-moving pieces created mostly from processed guitars. The latter adds an excellent postscript to Confluence - an album that has gained near-classic status in ambient/drone circles since it's release in 2008.

Munk's way of remixing other artists usually involves a complete reconstruction of the original piece, rearranging heavily and adding loads of fresh layers of sound to it, which is obvious when listening to his haunting and atmospheric reworkings of Blue Foundation's ballad ”Dressed in Black” or Mice Parade singer Caroline's ”Sleep”, or the Robin Guthrie produced Annie Barker track ”Cruel”. For Manual fans it's a treat to hear Munk's lush signature sound paired up with (often female) vocals. Disc 1 closes with the 17 minute Manual original ”Camellia”, the most new age-indebted piece in the Manual oeuvre, originally created for a digital-only compilation on Attack9. The track's placid sense of drift and delicately weaved harmonies makes it a standout in Munk's entire body of work.

Disc 2 is darker, more ambiguous in tone, with ”Three Parts” as the center piece – an enigmatic composition originally created for Ghostly International's ambient/drone compilation SMM: Context in 2011. Other notable selections includes ”Fields”, a meditative collaboration with Jason Kolb from Auburn Lull, and ”Memento”, a somber piece that exhibits Munk's flair for intensive guitar manipulation."


Caroline: "Sleep" (Manual Remix)

(yeah its vital, yeah u know its vital)
im stuck inside the loops, you know its vital
u carved ur mark yeah my veins still read the bible 
u say u care but u dont, its so tidal
u love like code, its just a cycle

i chase ur ghost through the songs i keep remaking
u move in dreams that my mind cant stop creating
these nights feel long yeah my sanity's forsaking
the lights cut out but my chest wont stop its aching

the city hums yeah im lost inside its pressure
i chase a feeling that i just cant seem to treasure
u call it love but it doesnt give me pleasure
i count my flaws yeah they stack up past all measure

(im stuck inside the loops, u knowits vital)
(u carved ur mark yeah my veins still read the bible)
(you know its vital, yeah you know its vital)
(you know its vital, yeah so fucking vital)

im stuck inside the loops, you know its vital
u carved ur mark yeah my veins still read the bible 
u say u care but u dont, its so tidal
u love like code, its just a cycle

i chase ur ghost through the songs i keep remaking
u move in dreams that my mind cant stop creating
these nights feel long yeah my sanity's forsaking
the lights cut out but my chest wont stop its aching

the city hums yeah im lost inside its pressure
i chase a feeling that i just cant seem to treasure
u call it love but it doesnt give me pleasure
i count my flaws yeah they stack up past all measure

(you know its vital, yeah you know its vital)
(you know its vital, yeah so fucking vital)

thank you hyp3rx always!!

vital // prod. hyp3rx :/

Part of my album as Need a Name: "Uncored".

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Need a Name - See You on Another Loop

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written, produced and recorded by Dario Lupo 
composed in Berlin between December 24, 2017, and January 2, 2018

mixed and mastered by Dario Lupo 

cover art & design: Dario Lupo

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Need a Name - Turning Too Much Into Not Enough

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Taylormade - I Know You've Forgotten Me

Blob_tragedy

From the album Stray Fantasies available January 31, 2020 on Western Vinyl.

Order / Stream: https://mintjulep.bandcamp.com/album/stray-fantasies
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Mixed by Yuuki Matthews | Mastered by Carl Saff | Mint Julep is Keith and Hollie Kenniff

LYRICS:
Sirens sound in a sea of debris
The land heaves, the dust rises
and hearts break

I don't mind it, I don't mind it
on my own
I don't mind it, I don't mind it
on my own

Take what you need and escape
The frames collapse and leave a vacant space
That I can't fill with anything

At the end with the fire and the fate
Can't keep up, we're vanishing
And the dark drowns out the night

I don't mind it, I don't mind it
on my own
I don't mind it, I don't mind it
on my own

Stray Fantasies

Escape

Mint Julep - Escape

From the album Stray Fantasies available January 31, 2020 on Western Vinyl.

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Mixed by Yuuki Matthews | Mastered by Carl Saff | Mint Julep is Keith and Hollie Kenniff

LYRICS:
You were lost at sea and when you washed ashore
The waves began to follow you wherever you go 
And now you’re done for 

I always meant to tell you
but after a while I lost my chance
What time doesn’t take from us
 is lost to circumstance

Remaining in the light so long 
Things seemed more clearly what they are
When darkness spilled from crevices 
We were lifted out, we were lifted out

I always meant to tell you
but after a while I lost my chance
What time doesn’t take from us
 is lost to circumstance

Mint Julep - Unite

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LYRICS

You’re caught off guard
And you say all the wrong things
But they sound so right 
Though I know they can’t be

Ask me again if some feel rain
What stays when nothing else remains
If it was now like it was then
We would risk everything

What we feel but don't know
Can follow us into the shadows
And I suppose it won't hurt much
Until all at once it does
 
Ask me again if some feel rain
What stays when nothing else remains
If it was now like it was then
We would risk everything

Mint Julep - Some Feel Rain

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Mint Julep - Some Feel Rain

Keith Kenniff