Martin Newell [Cleaners from Mars]- The Off White Album Format:White LP Opal Tapes and Umor Rex

Opal Tapes and Umor Rex for the better half of the past ten years

his experiences with soundtrack scoring

The twelve tracks behave like amorphous organisms

Jonah’s explorations into private music making sounds as if you’re in his bedroom witnessing a personalized performance made from voice

the songs swirl between shoegaze minimalism and stargaze drift

Martin Newell [Cleaners from Mars]- The Off White Album Format:White LP Opal Tapes and Umor RexLabel: Captured Tracks Released 03 26 2021 The title of Martin Newell's second solo album comes from a cheeky riff on the Beatles' White Album: if 1993's critically acclaimed The Greatest Living Englishman was Newell's Sgt. Pepper's, then it's only right that it's demure successor be called The Off White Album. There's even a little pastiche of "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" on "Queen Phyllis Of Colchester" Newell led the song in with a one finger