Track Listing

1. Introduction
2. You Can't Fool Me Dennis
3. Purple Prose
4. Soluble In Air
5. The Boy Who Ran Away
6. Summertime Den
7. Horse Drawn Cart
8. Zootime
9. Little Bag Of Hair
10. Diamond In The Dark
11. Alas Agnes
12. Making Dens

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #33844 in Music
• Released on: 2006-03-06
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Limited Edition
• Dimensions: .12 pounds

CD Description
'Making Dens' is the debut album from eclectic prog-indie act Mystery Jets. Sounding like a more carefree version of King Crimson, the band freewheel through genres with joyous abandon, mixing indie and prog with elements of music hall andpop, making for an entertaining and exhilarating listen. Includes the singles 'Zoo Time' and 'Alas Agnes'. This limitededition features special packaging.

Customer Reviews

Prog pop at its finest
I chanced across The Mystery Jets playing 'Zootime' live on MTV2 and were blown away by their brilliance -- they must have one of the best drummers in contemporary music at the moment. Yes, they are an odd assortment of individuals, and it must make life interesting having your dad in the band ... but they make brilliant music. It's not really what I would call progressive rock -- and I grew up with Yes, Genesis, and the prog canon -- but they have prog leanings and an inventive intelligence which makes them much more interesting than the usual 'verse-chorus-middle 8-chorus' format that most bands adopt. They have a pop sensibility I last heard in the 80s with It Bites, although musically they're less glitzy than Cumbrias finest and they have managed to perfect a mainstream quirkiness which makes them listenable again and again. The highlights for me are 'Purple Prose', 'Horse Draw Cart' and 'Zootime'. For a band with bags of intelligence, talent, and a commitment to writing songs with musical substance, turn to The Mystery Jets. Great stuff.

Fantastic
Anybody with half an eye on the indie scene of late will have noticed the similarity of most bands - they look the same, they sound the same. It makes for very dull listening.

Luckily for us, along came the Mystery Jets. They certainly look eccentric - a fact which seems to be discussed by reviewers considerably more than what they actually sound like. Which is a terrible shame, because their music is quite unlike anything you've ever heard.

Having heard several of the Mystery Jets' singles before the release of the album, I was intrigued to say the least. I expected the album to be an assortment of jangley, interesting little tunes thrown together in an ameteurish fashion - but in fact it is much more than that.

The songs range widely across the musical spectrum - from the fresh and catchy 'Alas Agnes', the proggy guitar driven 'Zoo Time' to the sad rolling epic of 'Little Bag of Hair'. Each song works on its own, but everything is presented in its best light as a whole album. It flows beautifully, a quality which is very rare among debuts. It is filled to the brim with instrumental genious and soaring tunes that will refuse to leave your head for weeks. The Mystery Jets have taken the prog format of ever changing melodies and compressed it down into small, perfectly formed chunks of musical brilliance. Catchy and thoughtful, small but monumental, this album is quietly breaking the boundries or modern music. It can't be long before people start to notice.

who says modern music is dead?
This band shows that there is still a chance for original and interesting pop/indie music to arrive in this day and age. I first heard of the Mystery Jets when they supported Bloc Party before Bloc Party were big, about a couple of years ago. They were brilliant live, and this debut album shows that they can get that live energy onto disc!

The singles are all present, and are as catchy as they were live, and the rest of the album is great and contains many exciting ideas. I also met the band, and they are some of the most down to earth people I have met who are in a band. I wish them all the best in the music business and could really do with as much support as possible to try and bring them into the forefront of the music scene to add some interest to it!

Here is to the Mystery Jets!