CPI Archive 2009: Though separated by hundreds of miles, Mail Order Messiahs (MOM) have been making music together for eight years. Ahead of the launch of their debut album later this month, Andrew Hamilton talks to MOM frontman, Mike Liffey.
The back streets of Dublin move with their own innate tone and rhythm. From the early morning hum of traffic, to the clatter and bang of heel on cobble, the city sings itself awake each day, and lulls itself asleep at night. It’s a melting pot of sounds - some heavy and abrasive, others sweeter and more welcoming, but all providing something that is aesthetically beautiful. You see, as the Mail Order Messiahs have discovered, beauty can reside in the most unusual of places. Sometimes you can’t help but find it, even when you’ve stopped looking. “We like to use bits and pieces of sound that we record from all over the place. One day we were recording in a studio on Abbey Street in Dublin and you tend to see life in all of its wonderful forms on Abbey Street. “We really wanted to get some general street noise for a song so we set up a mic on the street, but we happened to stick the mic out there at a time when some couple seemed to be in the middle of disintegrating. It was a drug-related fight and it went on for around 15 minutes but when we listened back to it, there was something in the voices and what we had recorded. It’s hard to describe exactly what was appealing about it but we used little snippets of it on the end of the song and they seemed to work. It’s not the central part of the song but it does make it better," said Mike.
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