Miserylab

post-punk

goths never die - they just get older .. fortunately - porl king [ex-[artist]rosetta stone] instead - got wiser .. forget dumb gothic cliches of 'darkness' and 'nocturnal skies' - this is the brightest post-punk we've heard from liverpools darkest light - so bright in fact - he's moved to leeds .. a self-proclaimed 'medicated follower of fashion' - miserylab smash the narcotic mirror against mindless consumerism and insipid vanity ---wound magazine From Wikipedia --- Miserylab is the main music project of Porl King, formed in the late nineties after the disbanding of Rosetta Stone in 1998. The project was originally conceived as a moniker for remix and production purposes, such as work done for My Vitriol and the Mercury Music Award winning Elbow. The name was originally spelt “misery:lab” – but King chose to remove the colon in order to make it easier to find in Internet search engines. The name can be seen as both a serious comment on animal experimentation, and a self-deprecating comment on himself and his musical output. A number of tracks were written in 2000, but were not released whilst production work remained the priority. In 2005 King created a profile on MySpace, reworking and uploading some of his early miserylab material. In 2007 four of these tracks were made available as a free download, complete with downloadable artwork, known as the Vaporware EP. Enthused by a positive response, and the successful relocation of his home studio to Leeds, King began ...