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Check out our video 'I Used to be so Pretty' on NYLON blogsite. Please leave a comment! Sticky love!

http://nylonmag.com/nylonblogs/blog/2010/12/09/music-video-the-unkindness-of-ravens/

Note To Self

The digital age has killed my attention span. And yours. So I'll keep this brief. I'm gonna rescue my attention span, and watch as the real world and my real desires come back into focus. From now on in everytime I check out a band's song online I'm gonna listen to the whole thing because you know, some people take a lot of pride in writing middle 8s and outros. I'm not gonna check my emails when presented with a couple of inconvenient minutes waiting, queuing, when I'm bored on a bus, when my girl's at the bar. I'm not gonna hang around on Facebook waiting for nothing to happen or wonder why the hell when people eventually reply to my emails they don't actually answer the things I asked them. I'm gonna look out the window and let my mind go, I'm gonna fix a lyric, remember who my favorite painters are, take a breath and trace the air, remember all the things I used to cook, think about the first time she took off her dress, wonder how the hell we evolved to be able to construct these buildings around us, write the first and last line to a book... I'm gonna remember that I'm intelligent and that I'm gonna die and that if I'm gonna be remembered as a great songwriter I better pick up my guitar more often. I'm gonna go listen to a record in it's entirity and think about how cool it is that those tracks are in that order, how amazing it is that a couple of circular vibrating pieces of cardboard attached to magnets inside wooden boxes inject rock'n'roll into my veins and make me wanna grab my girl and give her the attention she deserves. I need to give my mind the attention it deserves. Thanks for listening.

Berlin Berlin

The developments in our musical career as a band from the future are growing into something fast and furious, but slow enough to enjoy every single moment with a bleeding kiss.

Sometimes when I look into your eyes I can't help myself but get lost in dreams I've wanted to turn real and share together with you. So much do I fall inside you, I wear your skin like a coat and my insides turn to a milky mush.

The EP 'I Used to be so Pretty' is happily uploaded onto our myspace player. It's official release will be November Twenty 9. So grab it on iTunes for you to own.

Our EP launch party will take place 23 October at The Roadtrip bar (downstairs in the Workshop) on Old Street. There will be an array of other Bands playing on the night of industrial and electro genre. All this followed by our EP tour in November round the UK.

Something we're very excited about, we'll be heading to Berlin for one month in January to finish writing and recording our Album. This will be a fine break from London, giving us some breathing space, some adventure and all round excitement and inspiration.

Love is in the air for us Ravens. We can't seem to help but find love in every corner of our lives. This is how we believe the world will forever go round.

And to the NME dude who said Rock n Roll was dead - I hope you didn't write that for the money because you don't know what you're talking about!

The Space You Begin

Somewhere I end and you begin. Bound by noise, attracted by purity, addicted to the details no one else has found no one will ever look at you the way I do and I don't need no one else to look at me again. I unplug myself from the machine I use to set fire to myself, I'm done burning tonight. I need to plug myself back into you but you're caressing that place on the map that gave you to the world and so I kick back and think of you and light another cigarette and fall some more into my lake of wonder for you that was once a drop, one day an ocean, and you know I don't ever want to see the shore. I swallow and tease my lungs with the idea of filling them with water I hear it's the most pleasurable way to go I don't know whether the idea is to swim or drown I guess you only keep afloat if you need rescuing huh. I become light. The echoes of my alternative realities get softer by the drop they know they can't compete anymore, there is no more temptation left, I have cut myself out and you have cut yourself in. Light becomes me. Somewhere I end, it's the space you begin.

Faster

It's getting hot in here. The sound is dripping from the walls like the sweat that lies drying in your bed. Red hot distortion for your red hot lips. I drive this sound thru the air and thru the walls of this studio and into the streets that frame the things I tell you when we wake, weaving our souls closer and closer until you know who I am and still you beg me, for more, until the sound falls from the sky and into the sea and thru the streets that frame the things I will tell you tomorrow. I drive this sound so fast I want to burn the air into submission and make it promise to never leave your lungs. We are made of glass but I will hold us to the sky and never let go. I drive the sound faster. It's getting hot in here. You tell me you own everything you touch. I smile. You own me.

NEWS NEWS NEWS!

Dear Friends!

Got some hot news from the block!

Our most expensive low-budget video 'White Road' has been featured on the CLASH magazine website and the Panic Dots music website.

Check the links here:

http://www.clashmusic.com/feature/the-unkindness-of-ravens-white-road

http://panicdots.com/2010/06/video-the-unkindness-of-ravens-white-road/

A quick reminder that our 3rd ever single 'White Road' will be out 7 June on iTunes along with a FREE track 'Red Sun' which you can download from the X-player on our myspace. For as little as 79cents this little gem could be yours. If you want a physical copy for just 1.50quid (British Pounds) - mail us. Postage will be included in the price!

And tonight we're celebrating our forthcoming 'White Road' single with a gig @ Tommy Flynns in Camden! That place gets packed with all sorts of goodness on a Saturday night, so come down and join the fun with some live music and sweaty beers!

Sticky Love,

Nina & Ben Raven

Follow us - www.twitter.com/tuoravens

Watch us - www.youtube.com/tuoravens

Hear us - www.myspace.com/theunkindnessofravens

Dead Air single Reviews!

http://www.artrocker.tv/singles/article/artrocker-magazines-single-reviews-for-the-week-commencing-may-3rd

Above is the link to our first spotted review on Dead Air. The more we find, the more I will ad to this blog.

Don't forget our FREE track of LIFT, downloadable on our myspace page. Share it with friends and play this baby LOUD!

Sticky Love,

Nina

The Unkindness Of Ravens

www.myspace.com/theunkindnessofravens

Also, be first to find out the latest news on: www.twitter.com/tuoravens

DEAD AIR video in ARTROCKER and CLASH!

Our awesome no-budget, heart felt video DEAD AIR made it to Artrocker and Clash:

http://www.artrocker.tv/videos/article/the-unkindness-of-ravens-dead-air

http://www.clashmusic.com/feature/the-unkindness-of-ravens-dead-air

Thanks goes out to our trusty partners in crime Carly Seller and Noel Faucett. Both are professional photographers with a unique sense of visual style.

Noel is keeping his work hidden from the world at the moment, so once I get a web address from him I'll be sure to show off his work. In order to get a taste of what he's capable of for the moment, pay attention to the projections in the film, 95% of them were his. Pay especially close to the rich black and white film noir imageries...

Carly on the other hand has photographic style that carries a unique taste in attention to groundbreaking detail. Whilst most will miss it, she captures it, with a blend of angles thought out sensitively. This young lady has a fascination with birds (perfect for us, fate has brought us together after all) and her work you can discover here:

http://www.carlyseller.com/

We are using one of her images for the WHITE ROAD single due out in June.

Love,

Nina & Ben

The Unkindness Of Ravens

FOLLOW US HERE: www.twitter.com/tuoravens