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Elite Nylon, the long-awaited wide-release sequel to The Betrayal of the Self, is Neil Leyton's fourth studio album. It can now be pre-ordered exclusively via mail-order from the FW Music Store. However, it will be followed by the digital version (available via all major digital retailers, distributed by Finetunes.de) in November 2010.

Elite Nylon is not really an album, but rather three-EPs in one from what were to be three separate recording sessions with three separate concepts. The entire opus is explained on the new Elite Nylon mini-site.

Leyton supporters who invested in the TION project (The Insanity of Normality), and who have been receiving their demos and work-in-progress mixes along the course of the last few years' work will already be familiar with much of the material - they will also be the first to receive the first numbered copies of the physical limited edition release, coming in October. Regular orders will only ship Nov. 1st. 

Cover photo by Fabio Venni, licensed via Flickr / Creative Commons. Track listings for the ltd. ed. as well as the digital release can be viewed on the Elite Nylon site.

Also be sure to visit and communicate with Neil Leyton on Facebook .

Fading Ways Finland / Psychout Records proudly presents: THE POINT

Neil Leyton and Nicke Andersson were introduced to each other at Stockholm's Acetone studio whilst recording with Micke 'Rip' Borg. Leyton was working on his "Betrayal of the Self" album, back in October 2005. Andersson (along with Dregen) had booked a couple of days in the same studio for the recording of a tribute to a Swedish singer songwriter. They ended up also playing the solo on Leyton's "Hyperventilating", and Micke Borg kept in touch.

You have to know Micke RIP Borg to appreciate this, but years later he phones up Leyton and says, "You know, I been thinking, you and Nicke really should do a cover of The Jook's Aggravation Place, mmmm? What do you think?"

"O sure," Leyton replied on the phone from London. But who the hell are The Jook, he thought. So, to the rescue comes Fading Ways' resident rock n roll encyclopaedia, Mikko Jokela, director of Fading Ways Finland. "He immediately searched through his collection and found precisely the song, as he always does.", Leyton tells.

The sessions that ensued at Acetone yielded not just the Jook cover, but, perhaps not surprisingly, two original, written on the spot gems by Andersson/Leyton; the arrangements came easily enough out of some ideas Nicke had, and while he tracked them on drums with Micke on rhythm guitar and Bjorken on bass, Leyton worked the tape machine and scribbled down lyrics and hummed melodies that he then proceeded to record - everything came together spontaneously.

No hard labour, no politics, no jive, just friends making music in an old analogue studio. That, my friends, is The Point.

Give it a try / Pary of fools / Aggravation Place.

7" vinyl can now be ordered at FW Music Store