The 3rd massive release from 'Brooklyn Lights' - Reminisce. The sound of a lifetime.

Reminisce

Go, Go, Go!

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Runaway

CATHOLIC ACTION

release their single ‘L.U.V.’

~ Out now via Luv Luv Luv Records on 7” vinyl & download ~ 

7" Pre Order - http://www.roughtrade.com/albums/100760

Catholic Action are a product of Glasgow’s famously fertile music scene but have won fans across the UK thanks to their peerless pop masterpieces. After a run of rapturously received gigs in their hometown the group are ready to release their long-awaited debut release for Luv Luv Luv Records (Spector, Only Real, Splashh, The Garden)

The four-piece band are centered around the singular talents of vocalist and guitarist Chris McCrory – already known among key taste-makers as the drummer in Casual Sex, another of Glasgow’s leading musical lights. 

McCrory, still only 24, became a full-time producer and recording engineer straight from school after establishing his own studio. While helping many of the artists in Glasgow’s burgeoning DIY scene, McCrory is also an exceptional songwriter in his own right and his group quickly became the most talked about in town.  

Catholic Action were formed in 2014 by McCrory alongside Jamie Dubber on bass and Ryan Clark on drums. Andrew Macpherson later joined as lead guitarist to add extra sparkle to the group's own brand of glam noise rock.

The group were personally invited by Alex Kapranos to support FFS at their sold-out show at the famous Barrowland Ballroom last August. Just days later, Carl Barat was in touch to ask them to open for The Libertines when they played Glasgow’s Academy the following month - an invitation to open on Swim Deep’s UK tour in October 2015 followed. 

L.U.V. was recorded at the Green Door Studio in Glasgow by Sam Smith (Casual Sex, Mother and the Addicts). The single was mixed at Parr Street Studios in Liverpool by Rich Turvey (Blossoms, Clean Cut Kid).

Catholic Action will perform live at: 

Live at Leeds festival 30 April
The Great Escape Festival 19 May
The Great Escape Festival 20 May
Belladrum Festival 5 August
Lodestar Festival 3 September

For more information, please contact:

Radio: Nick Alsey -  nick@airplayer.co.uk
Press: Joe Parry - joe@insideslashout.com 
Label: Grania Howard - Grania@luvluvluvrecords.com

FB: https://www.facebook.com/catholicactionband/
TW: https://twitter.com/_catholicaction
IG: https://www.instagram.com/catholicaction/
SC: https://soundcloud.com/catholic-action

In Memory Of

L.U.V

Watch the video for Pick Me Up: http://po.st/CCKPickMeUp

Pick Me Up

We Used To Be In Love - EP

We Used To Be In Love

Chandeliers

'Funeral Song' from the forthcoming Fast Romantics album entitled 'Afterlife Blues'

Check out an album preview video here, and pre-order now!
http://www.pledgemusic.com/projects/fastromantics

Funeral Song

Over & Under

Worrying

Blair now lives in Brooklyn, but until recently, gigged in and around the Silver Lake and Echo Park neighborhoods of Los Angeles.  But this story doesn’t begin on the west coast, far from it actually.

Blair grew up in the Deep South, New Orleans specifically, and in a town as soaked in gin as it is jazz, brass and funk, an adolescent Blair alternately drifted towards the sounds of Neil Young and Bob Dylan drifting out of her mother’s turntable.  But she is no folkie. Born in the ‘80s it was inevitable that the pop sounds of ‘90s FM radio would seep into her musical DNA; remember, these were the days when Nirvana and Beck dominated the airwaves.  A quick study, Blair taught herself guitar by listening to and learning the tunes on John Frusciante's first solo records and by her late teens was opening for the likes of Cat Power and Bright Eyes.  Fast forward to 2007. At 22, Blair self-releases her debut EP, Pluto. At four songs the EP is a quick dash through the past four decades of pop music as filtered by someone who grew up with a healthy collection of Kate Bush, PJ Harvey, Replacements, Velvets and Pavement.

Blair- Hearts

Having toured relentlessly for three years, alongside recording their debut album with numerous producers and in numerous studios, Clean Cut Kid decided to take a 10 month break from touring to record new music. On Wednesday 12th September, the band will mark their return with new single ‘Emily,’ taken from their upcoming ‘Painkiller’ EP out 22nd October.

The first thing the band did was head back to their native Liverpool, where they rented a pod in an old shipping factory in the Baltic Triangle area of the city, and filled it with vintage recording equipment. Once that was fully set up, they locked themselves away for months on end, getting everything up to the standard they wanted.

Mike Halls (lead singer/guitarist) was adamant that these new songs would be more personal to Clean Cut Kid, both in the themes they cover, but also to the band as a whole. Explaining this, Mike says: “I want to write about things in my life, what we’re feeling, whether they be sad or joyous. The ultimate thing is to take the deepest emotions and work it in to a message that isn’t miserable.”

Written, recorded and engineered entirely by the band, ‘Emily’ finds Clean Cut Kid deviating from their indie-pop sound of first album Felt – released last year – in to a more lo-fi, American East Coast sound, complete with 70s-inspired, fuzz guitar lines, harmonic backing vocals, a stand-alone verse from Evelyn Halls (keys) and thudding drums, with echoes of Fleetwood Mac, The Rolling Stones and Phoebe Bridgers.