Us and Them

August

Reason to Live

Over You

Poster Paints are Simon Liddell (Olympic Swimmers, Frightened Rabbit) and Carla J Easton who have changed their way of working and embraced the “new normal” to make art. Their debut single "Number 1" is an instant anthem. Teenage love, feeling invincible and long hot summers. 

Introduced through mutual friend Eugene Kelly of The Vaselines, Poster Paints was born as a result of the pandemic lockdown as a chance for Easton and Liddell to continue to be creative and collaborate: “The chance to still be able to do something you love became a reason to get out of bed," says Easton. "Something to hold on to, something that still couldn’t be taken away.”

Having worked remotely with Frightened Rabbit, whose members often found themselves in different cities, Liddell already had a blueprint for this method of collaboration. The process was based around home studios - emailing tracks back and forth, DIY vocal booths in wardrobes combined with state of the art drum studios. “It’s not the perfect way to work - it’ll never replace the chemistry of writing and playing in a room together," he says, "but when isolation is a necessity, we’re lucky to be living in a time that we have the technology to collaborate in this way.”

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Poster Paints isn’t boxed in by genre restrictions or limited studio time. There was no end goal in how a song should sound. As a result the music is free; it’s the sound of two people exploring a new collaboration Glasgow indie pop, dream pop and shoegaze - the bands they grew up listening to, and are passionate about. "Number 1" features contributions from Jonny Scott (CHVRCHES) and Suse Bear (Tuff Love, Good Dog) and is produced by Liddell, mixed by David R Simpson, mastered by Paul Gallagher and made possible through funding from Creative Scotland. “It’s just so immediate” says Easton of the track. “Summer pop scuzz. Jesus and Mary Chain meets Moe Tucker by way of The Supremes."

 Poster Paints are here to soundtrack your summer.

Poster Paints - Number 1

All I Need Is You Tonight

Lyrics:

Raise your hands to the corner now
Point out the burglar in the shadow now
He'll be stealing our sheep and cows
What do we eat? Where do we meet?

Innocence is common in the choir of your soul
But the shady lights make you uncomfortable

Purple floods rush through my hands
Control the shake, control the shake
Purple floods rush through my hands
Control the shake

(2x)
Ooh-oh, shaky little dice roll
Ooh-oh, play a game with your soul
Ooh-oh, shaky little dice roll
Keep her rollin', keep, keep on rollin' rollin'

Emptying my pocket in a mysterious unknown void
But I'm filling the emptiness with tasteless joy

Purple floods rush through my hands 
Control the shake, control the shake
Purple floods rush through my hands
Control the shake, control the shake

(2x)
Water water water
Matter matter matter
Bring me water water
What's the matter matter?

(2x)
Water water water
Matter matter 
Bring me water water 
What's the matter matter?

(2x)
(Ooh-oh) Shaky little dice roll
(Ooh-oh) Play a game with your soul
(Ooh-oh) Shaky little dice roll
Keep on rollin', keep, keep on rollin' rollin'

(Ooh-oh) Shaky little dice roll
(Ooh-oh) Play a game with your soul
(Ooh-oh) Shaky little dice roll
Keep on rollin', keep, keep on rollin' rollin'

(Wow!) Shaky little dice roll
(Wow!) Play a game with your soul
(Ooh-oh) Shaky little dice roll
Keep on rollin', keep, keep on rollin' rollin'

Keep on rollin', keep, keep on rollin' rollin'

Produced & Mixed by: Bryan Wilson
Mastered by: Robin Schmidt

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Come one, come all!
This is Gravity Circus!

Our goal is to connect people through music and escape into another reality. 
No matter who you are or where you’re from, this circus invites everyone!

After years of discovering our own sound and sharing our progress through singles and an EP, now comes the time to realize our album. 
We are grateful to have the chance of working with Bryan Wilson (mixing) and Robin Schmidt (mastering) to realize this official debut. 

It has been a crazy fun road this far and the best is yet to come.
The circus is coming to town, with a full throttle blazing rocket propulsion!

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