06. How to Drain the Swamp?
BYE BYE is the title of the brand new album by Mist, dream pop-ensemble from Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
It’s the long-awaited follow-up to We Should Have Been Stars (A-071CD / 2003), an album full of intimate quality pop that has received wide international acclaim.
In the course of years, Mist has become an important player in the independent scene of pop in Europe and South America. In 2004, the band of frontman and singer-songwriter Rick Treffers toured in Spain, Germany, France and Norway. The band even went to South America to visit Argentina and Chile. The album We Should Have Been Stars has been released in Germany on Tumbleweed Records (www.tumbleweed-records.de), in Mexico on Astro Mexico and in Chile – with an extra track for the South American market- on the label Quemasucabeza (www.quemasucabeza.cl). Mist shared the stage with The The, Das Pop, Spain, Nits, Novastar, The Posies and their befriended label mates from Spain Schwarz, Lansbury, Holywater and Ya te Digo.
With the personal, intimate, intense and musically layered BYE BYE (“an album about farewell and all its aspects”), the five-piece-band from Amsterdam stands a serious chance to reach the top of alternative European pop.
