NEWS - SPEARMINT RELEASE BRAND NEW ALBUM: 'THIS CANDLE IS FOR YOU'

Produced by Scritti Politti's Rhodri Marsden (who also produced 2021's acclaimed 'Holland Park'), their 10th official studio album opens a dizzying multiverse of vintage indie-pop sounds and thoughtful vignettes. An record where Prince and Joni Mitchell rub shoulders with James Bond; where searches for missing sisters are followed by reflections of lost loved ones; of late-night drinking sessions out in Soho and getting square eyes watching B-movies; of keeping older cats and the colourful characters in life; 'This Candle Is For You' is an incandescent return from one of London's best kept secrets.

Spearmint is a London-based band.
The line-up is unchanged since 1995: Shirley Lee (singing, guitar, main song-writer), James Parsons (guitar, bass), Simon Calnan (singing, keyboards) and Ronan Larvor (drums). We’ve been helped musically at various times by Dickon Edwards, Andy Lewis, Rhodri Marsden and Martin Talbot, our original bassist, who left after five gigs. Following Martin’s death, our debut album ‘A Week Away’, and its 10th anniversary re-issue in 2009, were dedicated to his memory. Even now we’re working on a song that continues the memory – we love you Martin.

We’ve worked together continuously since we formed. There were a couple of slower periods: when Jim worked on an album with his side-project Telley in 2009, and when Shirley made a solo double-album in 2011. Even then, we continued to work on Spearmint songs. We’ve made nine records that we consider to be proper albums, including the ‘Shirley Lee’ album from 2009, which was very much a Spearmint record.

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