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Review: Even In The Future Nothing Works - October 21st, 2009 | 04:35 AM

Released in 2008, Fierce Pale Hen is the 4th album that Muarena Helena have made. This makes a lot of sense to me, on my first listen I was under the impression that this was their debut - this intrig...

{sic} magazine review - October 19th, 2009 | 08:00 AM

The name Muarena Helena may well be a literary allusion I’m too thick too get but for anyone in the same boat it’s not the name of anyone performing here, just the band moniker. Can’t help with the ti...

some nice words on Cardiff / loose night - April 19th, 2009 | 01:32 AM

http://pixieglaspicks.blogspot.com/2009/04/making-beautiful-music.html "... first up is the excellent canadian band MUARENA HELENA, relocated to london and with a local lass amy on recorder and sax. t...

subbacultcha.com review - April 15th, 2009 | 12:01 AM

Hey, a late entry from SubbaCultcha.com:Atmospheric abandonment from the London shoe-gazersIs it Shoegaze? On the London quartet’s (at times quintet) fourth record there’s certainly an atmosphere of a...

BUFFALO BAR SERIES - April 3rd, 2009 | 04:12 AM

HEY, KIDS. THANKS ALL WHO CAME TO THE BUFFALO BAR IN ISLINGTON AND THE ONE IN CARDIFF. MARCIO, ANDRE PERCY AND ALL AT GOO ARE PRETTY AMAZING FOLKS. WE FELT LOVED. LIZ, RYAN, ED, AND THE LOOSE LOT AR...

ITUNES - February 10th, 2009 | 04:27 PM

Hey, digital friends! Get digital! We're selling our songs on itunes, just to be different. However, in keeping with the way the world as a third party sees us, you've gotta type 'MURENA HELENA' in...

spoonfed on culture website - February 4th, 2009 | 06:44 PM

somebody found this and sent it along, it's from a weekly web newsletter. thanks, spoonfed!'An inventive bunch of kids from Hackney, Muarena Helena make a weird and wonderful sounding dream pop stew,...

UNPREDICTABLE PORRIDGE REVIEW - January 25th, 2009 | 07:05 PM

Here's what U.P. had to say about FPH: Well what d’ya know, Muarena Helena call themselves ‘shoegaze’ too. The one thing we’ve got of theirs is very fine, simple, called ‘Long Flat’, and is the first...

OUT, IN THE STATES - January 20th, 2009 | 08:48 PM

SERIES TWO RECORDS HAS RELEASED US ON A COMPILATION BOX SET IN GOOD OLD NEBRASKA. WHICH IS FUNNY, BECAUSE WE HAVE FAMILY THERE. YOU MAY GO TO http://indiepages.com/seriestwo Y'ALL CAN PICK YOURSELFS...

COMPILATIONS - January 7th, 2009 | 09:47 PM

TO THE BEST OF MY KNOWLEDGE, THE SERIES TWO RECORDS COMPILATIONS WILL BE OUT LATER THIS MONTH, FEATURING US ALONGSIDE SOME AMAZING BANDS FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD. HOORAY!