SPECIAL NOTICE FOR OUR REGULAR CUSTOMERS : IF YOU BUY ANY SEVEN TRACKS FROM 'FREAK SCENE' HERE ON BANDCAMP (from either the Frizz Records or Silver Panda stores), WE'LL SEND YOU THE REMAINING THREE SONGS FROM THE ALBUM, PLUS THE ALBUM ARTWORK FREE OF CHARGE IN THE FORMAT OF YOUR CHOICE. JUST DROP US A NOTE WHEN YOU BUY THE SEVENTH TO LET US KNOW!
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'River Euphrates' is the sixth of ten instalments of our debut album, entitled ‘Freak Scene’, which we're releasing song by song, one every two weeks...
The album is a set of ‘weird covers’… The original versions were all recorded between ’88 & ’92, by bands that used guitar noise at the centre of their sound (call it grunge, art punk, indie rock, shoegaze, whatever) - Dinosaur Jr, Sonic Youth, Pixies, Pavement, My Bloody Valentine… - and our versions strip away the dirt & the electricity, and reinvent what’s left with acoustic instruments, harmony voices, Latin percussion, jazz-inflected woodwinds…
The first five singles, our versions of Dinosaur Jr.'s 'Freak Scene', Pavement's 'Summer Babe' & 'So Stark (You're A Skyscraper)', 'You Made Me Realise' by My Bloody Valentine & 'She Rides The Waves by the Pale Saints, are available from a sidebar near you >>>
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"River Euphrates has to be one of the most inspired re-inventions on the Freak Scene album, translating the Pixies song into a sort of fantasy '60s Latin beach party universe, and making it sound like it was written to be that way...with Maree Choie's clarinet snaking around the Joey Santiago surf guitar lines over an infectious blend or percolating percussion..."
Everything from Big Crown records is amazing. A great cross-section of their artists here all covering Sunny & the Sunliners (who you should also listen to!) The Silver Panda
One of our favourites out of a dazzling collection of intriguing albums on Bandcamp from the Moon Glyph label... Beautiful cover artwork too! The Silver Panda