The Manchester-based band MONEY are releasing their debut album, The Shadow of Heaven, on Bella Union records in August 2013. Recorded in London, England, through the deep, dark winter of 2012 and 2013, it’s an ethereal, transcendent record that’s notable for its musical and intellectual ambition. Though ambition is perhaps not quite the right word. Because MONEY would never talk about ambition. Such things don’t sit well with them. They’d talk about anti-ambition and the revision of existing values – the kind of bold gesture already signalled by their unabashedly iconic name. It’s an album that defies convention and cliché, asking us instead to be courageous enough to see the world in different ways. This might mean risking everything. As lead singer and ideologue Jamie Lee says, ‘Our aim with this band – in all things we do – is to create the world afresh on our own terms.’