New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Alternative dark-rock musicians Johnathan|Christian have released their long-awaited LP record album, titled, "Beautiful Hideous." Their debut LP release is comprised of 10 original tracks and remixes by UK industrial pioneer
Martin Bowes and New York avant-garde artist Bryin Dall making for a colorful and comprehensive introduction to the Johnathan|Christian sound. The record, which has an official release date of 8 November 2013, has already begun to hit mainstream media with considerable force, bringing fans of the dark music subculture thronging to Johnathan|Christian websites and music outlets.
Johnathan|Christian are Johnathan Mooney and Christian Granquist, veterans of the alternative music scene. Composer Johnathan Mooney originally played keyboard for New York's popular band, The New Creatures, and is now living in
Orange County, California. Christian Granquist is well known in the Swedish post-punk scene having played with the members of the pop trio Day Behavior and is the keyboardist for the Stockholm electronic band The Atom.
Johnathan|Christian cite darkwave artistic influences including such performers as Sisters of Mercy, Bauhaus, Depeche Mode, Joy Division, Siouxsie & The Banshees, The Mission UK and the Cure. Intuitively, their own music typifies the traditional darkwave sound, adding in soaring, epic refrains and dramatic fugues that create a style all their own.
Of their particular style and chemistry, Mooney writes, "Being more of a composer than a lyrical writer, my music is all voxless [without vocals]. When I come up with an idea for a song, it's not just a song, "it's a vision. I'm actually hearing a whole storyline in my head like scoring to a film. When I heard one of [Granquist's] Atom tracks on, I knew right away that a unique voice like his would really compliment my dark vision."
Singer Granquist concurs. "Lyrically," he writes, "I seek inspiration in pretty dark themes: conflicts, separation anxiety and death. These require a certain type of quasi-cinematic ambiance which I'm not fully able to convey in my own music. Johnathan, on the other hand, had it already perfectly wrapped in a black little box. I directly saw that my voice structure and lyrics would be a perfect fit with his picturesque style of writing very emotional music."
Dave Kendall, creator of MTV's "20 Minutes" and host on Sirius/XM's First Wave Channel, writes of Johnathan|Christian, "[This is] grand, rich, high-class melancholia. Get your Goth on."
The United Kingdom's Nightbreed
Radio calls their sound, "Epic!"
DJ Cruel Britannia of the Fadeout Podcast said, "Their sound is an accessible yet dark blend of well-constructed tracks which would be just as at home in the closing credits of a film as they would by themselves on your MP3 player."
DJ Paul V of The Independent FM said that Johnathan|Christian have a "Definite
Peter Murphy vibe."
"[Johnathan|Christian have] real quality and emotion," said
Martin Bowes of Attrition.
The LP record, "Beautiful Hideous" by Johnathan|Christian is available online worldwide beginning 8 November 2013, with their cover of Duran Duran's "The Chauffeur" as the first single.
The LP "Beautiful Hideous" is distributed globally by MondoTunes (www.MondoTunes.com) and is available at iTunes or www.top40-charts.com for convenient purchase and download.
