{"product_id":"mojave-3-spoon-and-rafter-2026-remaster-cd","title":"Pre-Order 24\/07\/26 - Mojave 3: Spoon And Rafter - 2026 Remaster (CD)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe width=\"full\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zMNz3gSvYP4?si=krRSU-oheqzigVD4\" title=\"YouTube video player\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis item is available for pre-order only and will be dispatched on or around its release date (24\/07\/26)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMojave 3’s founding members are vocalist \/ guitarist Neil Halstead, bassist \/ vocalist Rachel Goswell, and drummer Ian McCutcheon. The band broke cover in 1995, when a six-track demo impressed 4ad sufficiently to offer them a deal, despite a then-prevailing musical climate of bumptious Britpop that seemed totally at odds with what Mojave 3 were doing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTheir incongruence was hardly surprising given that Halstead, Goswell and McCutcheon had formed as members of definitive shoegazers Slowdive, while guitarist Simon Rowe had previously served with dreampop kindred spirits Chapterhouse.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMojave 3’s debut, \u003cem\u003eAsk Me Tomorrow\u003c\/em\u003e, was a refreshingly stripped down collection that changed little from the original demos. Halstead’s melodic, folk- and country-tinged songs drew favourable (if lazy) comparisons to Nick Drake, Cowboy Junkies and Bob Dylan. Three years later, \u003cem\u003eOut Of Tune\u003c\/em\u003e continued where the first album left off and showed a group that had grown in both confidence and cohesiveness. Third album \u003cem\u003eExcuses For Travellers\u003c\/em\u003e contained some of the most ambitious Halstead compositions yet. \u003cem\u003eSpoon And Rafter\u003c\/em\u003e followed three years later marking another shift for the band.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhile still containing echoes of singer-songwriters and alt-country, the record represents a technicolour expansion of their palette that utilizes electronics, glockenspiels, melodica, and Beatlesque production. Their final album, 2006’s \u003cem\u003ePuzzles Like You\u003c\/em\u003e is a positively bright and fun record that feels right at home next to indie rock contemporaries like The Shins and Band of Horses, while sounding nearly unrecognisable next to the band they were on \u003cem\u003eAsk Me Tomorrow\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNever ones to sit still, Spoon and Rafter marked another shift for the band. While still containing echoes of singer-songwriters and alt-country, the record represents a Technicolour expansion of their palette that utilizes electronics, glockenspiels, melodica, and Beatlesque production.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“It’s quite a bonkers album, really,” says Ian. “By that stage we had our own studio again on the north Cornish coast in the UK. We had time to pick up different instruments and just faff around. It was quite a process, but it’s my favourite record we did.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“We sort of entered our Beach Boys phase of Mojave 3,” says Neil, “where we became more interested in different instrumentation and a fuller sound. Thanks to Mark [Van Hoen] it was the first time we used an early Pro Tools system to edit stuff together, so some of the tracks are much longer and more orchestrated, like ‘Bluebird of Happiness,’ which has three different sections that were all recorded separately and then chopped together.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnd while Mojave 3 had few instances of breaking into mainstream culture, album cuts “Bluebird of Happiness” and “Bill Oddity” were poppy enough to both be featured in 2003 episodes of The O.C.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBluebird of Happiness\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eStarlite #1\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBill Oddity\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWriting to St Peter\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBattle of the Broken Hearts\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHard to Miss You\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTinkers Blues\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eShe's All Up Above\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eToo Many Mornings\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBetween the Bars\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e","brand":"4ad","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54322327028058,"sku":"4AD0829CD","price":12.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1481\/5374\/files\/mojave-3-spoon-rafter.jpg?v=1781677443","url":"https:\/\/freebirdrecords.com\/products\/mojave-3-spoon-and-rafter-2026-remaster-cd","provider":"Freebird Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}