Musical Royalty Descends From The Pyramid Of Dreams It’s The King Canutes With The Mixture As Before

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Musical Royalty Descends From The Pyramid Of Dreams It’s The King Canutes With The Mixture As Before

28/11/2025

The King Canutes
The Mixture as Before
Magic Door Record Label

A pairing of premium talents and the hand-picked selection of musician friends from across their vibrant and far-reaching scene, The King Canutes present their debut album. Eastern Seaboard, Perfect Summer perhaps encapsulates the feeling of the whole season with its twisting narratives and exploratory provocations, creating a wealth of deep-thinking material. Of course, the music sounds good; the album has been fifteen years in the making from idea to product. The permanent members Keir Woods and Richard Alwyn Fisher have enlisted the talented music producer Ray Ketchem to make the record, with people like Mac Gollehon who’s worked with David Bowie, Mick Jagger, Durran Durran, and Al Jarreau. They’ve also invited Dave Derby from Dam Busters, Lloyd Cole, and Gramercy Arms, Kendal Jane Meade of Sparklehorse and Mascott, Mike Dillon from Rickie Lee Jones’ outfit, and Jessie Kilguss who we’ve featured before, plus many more, it’s a seriously rich and multi-intelligence-oriented work of music art. The standout track for today is The Mixture as Before, and as ambitious as it is principled, it’s ready for you right now.

A solitary vocal begins the magic with a gazeful lyric about brown eyes. They knock you out, or so we’re told. A muted electric guitar begins to add vibrant passages of music within the folky vocal main road. The progression reaches higher; the band kicks in with a full-on classic rock sound. Electric guitar with distorted strings like a bluesy back-street bar jangle with a sunny acoustic that shines with a solid pinewood timbre. Backing vocals bring out new harmonies in the mixture as the captivating composition sways from this and that, elevating various tones and musical instrumental sections, and offers us a comfy voice that rings with a pulchritudinous baritone.

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