Last week I had the pleasure of catching up with Dan Andriano, bass player with Alkaline Trio who has just released a solo album under the name ‘The Emergency Room’.
Dan plays The Academy in Dublin on September 29th as part of The Revival Tour alongside Chuck Ragan, Brian Fallon (The Gaslight Anthem) and David Hause (The Loved Ones).
Check out the Interview over on Goldenplec.
Today’s recommended free music comes to us by Nouveaunoise. Nial Conway and Conor Gaffney are an electronic duo who are producing some seriously interesting electronica. Believe is a free download, taken from the duo’s new 5 track EP, Sequence Consequence.
The EP is the follow up to last year’s ‘Paraphrase Accolade’.
Headphones on, volume up, press play!
An alarm thankfully woke me up in time for an early morning interview with singer Chris Turpin, from Kill It Kid who easily took my early morning interview crown from Ant from Futures. Our chat took place while Kill it Kid were driving to London to take of the business side of music with a day of meetings. ‘Living in Bath it takes us a little while to get over there’ explains Chris.
The band got together in University in Bath but they don’t have a typical university indie band sound, it’s a little bit more grown up.
‘It’s our influences, I guess. I was gigging on my own doing solo pre war acoustic blues, Steph was doing similar on the other side of the scale, Bessie Smith and all the early female blues. We started playing together in different little groups, I was playing behind her in some jazz concerts and she had come to see my shows. Mark saw me at a solo gig and we all decided to get everyone in a room together. That was two and a half years ago, it took a little bit of getting used to because knew early on what we wanted to do. It wasn’t an indie disco band, we didn’t want to chase any trends.
Cars Love Girls release their debut single ‘Lose Your Mind’ on October 14th. The brother/sister band features Bres, of Republic of Loose and female vocalist Orla who joined the Loose in 2006.
We’re in for a good dose of funky R ‘n’ B, with some serious Prince influences, which is never a bad thing. This is probably also helped on by the fact that mastering was done by Bernie Grundman, who lended his ears to Purple Rain. Lyrically, the track is very ROL, not surprising as Bres wrote some to their biggest tracks. Orla’s vocals are made for this type track, and the vocal layers and slight reverb lead this track beautifully through its rise and falls.
Really good debut and introduction for the album ‘Skip School’ which is due out in early 2012. Life after the Loose is looking good. Really like this track.
Watch out for Cars Love Girls on tour with Bressie, and on the IMRO Showcase tour on September 29th in Crawdaddy and Hard Working Class Heroes in October.