Miserylab
| miserylab | |
|---|---|
| Origin |
Liverpool, England Leeds, England |
| Genres | Post-punk, alternative rock |
| Years active | 1998 - present |
| Labels | Carbon Neutral Digital Shadowplay Release |
| Associated acts | Rosetta Stone |
| Members | Porl King |
Miserylab is the main music project of Porl King, formed in the late nineties after the disbanding of Rosetta Stone in 1998.
Miserylab was originally conceived as a moniker for remix and production purposes, such as work done for My Vitriol and the Mercury Music Award winning Elbow. The name was originally spelt "misery:lab" – but King chose to remove the colon in order to make it easier to find in Internet search engines. The name can be seen as both a serious comment on animal experimentation, and a self-deprecating comment on himself and his musical output. A number of tracks were written in 2000, but were not released whilst production work remained the priority.
In 2005 King created a profile on MySpace, reworking and uploading some of his early miserylab material. In 2007 four of these tracks were made available as a free download, complete with downloadable artwork, known as the "Vaporware EP".
Enthused by a positive response, and the successful relocation of his home studio to Leeds, King began writing the full-length Function Creep in November 2007. Released in April 2008 as both a download and limited edition CD, it had a more guitar-driven, post-punk feel than the previous EP. King had a preference for download-only releases, only making Function Creep available as a CD following requests for physical version. Function Creep was immediately followed by a downloadable single, an extended version of the track "Be There Tomorrow".
A second album, A Death That We Can Cure, was released on 5 November 2008. (It was consciously released on the anniversary of the Gunpowder Plot). The unusual title is a Bushism. A graph on the back cover shows, somewhat bluntly, that many more people die of starvation than as a result of terrorism.
A third album, Freedom is Work, was released in May 2009. Around the same time King was approached by a Russian record label, which resulted in a compilation becoming available in Russia in August that year. Lab Samples compiled a selection of tracks from the first two albums, plus ‘No Cure For Life’ from the "Vaporware EP".
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