Hey, amazing, this whole song is like whoa, and so so so

Bookie

"No News From Home" by Houndstooth

Off 2009's 'Person To Person', available to own at: http://bit.ly/persontoperson_scd

Watch the video: http://bit.ly/earlywarnings_vimeo

A holiday escape to the oceanside is meant to keep the tribulations of daily life at bay. Yet every joyous moment of vacation is undercut with a strange melancholy as you do the math on the finite nature of your getaway. So, you take your sweet, sweet time with that cold drink and offer a cheers an extra time or two.

The songs of LA's Foreign Born's, Person To Person, are cut through with this same duality: celebration in spite of trouble on the horizon.

While the songs are propelled by benga-flavored beats, fuzzed-out synth bass, clucking tropical cowbells- from soaring horn sections to emotive string arrangements, its frontman Matt Popieluch's emotive, Aschcroft-y delivery that always keep the songs in check.

One can't help but imagine this was the mood of Foreign Born's mid-summer retreat to Sunset Lodge Studios, where bass parts were laid down in the wee hours of morning and the hot tub bubbled late into the night. The result of the session is an album of dense pop that justifies the band's place among top songsmithing contemporaries like Cass McCombs and James Mercer, as well as greats like (dare I say it?) David Bowie (There, I said it). But the band is able to bypass the "songwriter" label by delivering a much more collective sound -- you know, like a BAND. African high-life guitars are countered with New Wave wash; the sound of a band daring to keep its pallet open to most any influence -- from U2 to The Feelies. If the Walkmen weren't afraid to go out in Bermuda shorts and flip-flops, you may have a sound close to this... like it could be Phil Spector's mid-70's 'lost recordings' inspired by the depth of second-line drum bands from New Orleans.

It's been said that Foreign Born is an anthem band without "the" fist-pumping anthem, which may be true. And this is OK, because the trade-off is for an album far more cerebral and sustaining. The thing with summer anthems is that they only last a summer, Foreign Born delivers the soundtrack for the backyard BBQ of the ages.

Foreign Born is Lewis Pesacov, Matt Popieluch, Garrett Ray and Ariel Rechtshaid

"The songs that make up this record are as meticulously recorded and executed as pop music gets. They're as dense and lush as they are stick-in-your-craw catchy." - POPMATTERS

"the band [has a] feel for anthemic '80s rock shaded by complex arrangements and cathartic moments that make the likes of Modest Mouse and Arcade Fire so appealing"- LA TIMES

"Percussion-loaded pop ballads, hypnotic bridges, and danceable rock edges"- SPIN Magazine

"Foreign Born's new music is inhabited by cries for help, shouts of hope and pleas for healing, all underpinned by rhythms so relentless and restless they seem connected to our turbulent times. And it's not a stretch to think of this album as Foreign Born's "Music From Big Pink." - BUZZ BANDS

(SC182 released: 06/23/09)

Person To Person

Early Warnings

Own the album

Foreign Born - "Early Warnings"

The crème de la crème of the Tender Loving Empire catalog

Y La Bamba - Juniper

Best Blues

Smoke Around the Bend

Lost Animal - Too Late To Die Young

From the album Big Balloon

'Big Balloon' is available to preorder from www.dutchuncles.co.uk on CD, clear vinyl plus deluxe CD and LP packages featuring an exclusive t shirt, four signed post cards and a 'Big Balloon' balloon. All orders come with an instant download of the title track.  The album is also available to preoder from iTunes (http://smarturl.it/bigballooniTunes) and Amazon (http://smarturl.it/bigballoonamazon).

Dutch Uncles are on tour throughout the UK next March. Dates as follows, tickets from www.dutchuncles.co.uk:

01 March Edinburgh Electric Circus 
02 March Newcastle The Cluny
03 March Leeds The Wardrobe 
04 March Nottingham Bodega 
06 March Birmingham Hare and Hounds 
07 March Sheffield The Plug 
08 March Oxford O2 Academy2 
09 March Bristol Fleece 
11 March Brighton The Haunt 
12 March Southampton Talking Heads
13 March London Village Underground 
15 March Manchester Dancehouse Theatre

Dutch Uncles - Big Balloon

"Cut Me Off" is the first single taken from Madeline Kenney's forthcoming album, "Perfect Shapes," out October 5th.

PRE-ORDER
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TOUR DATES
August 15th - Dover, UK - The Booking Hall *
August 16th - Bristol, UK - Louisiana *
August 18th - Exeter, UK - Exeter Phoenix *
August 19th - Birmingham, UK - Hare & Hounds *
August 21st - Edinburgh, IE - Summerhall *
August 22nd - Leeds, UK - Headrow House *
September 15th - Raleigh, NC - Kings %
October 15th - Santa Cruz, CA - The Crepe Place
October 18th - San Francisco, CA - Rickshaw Stop
October 20th - Los Angeles, CA - Moroccan Lounge
November 1st - Brooklyn, NY - Baby's All Right
November 2nd - Lancaster, PA - Tellus 360
November 3rd - Washington, DC - Songbyrd
November 4th - Philadelphia, PA - PhilaMOCA
November 6th - Toronto, ON - Monarch
November 7th - Cleveland, OH - Beachland Tavern
November 8th - Cincinnati, OH - MOTR Pub
November 9th - Chicago, IL - Schubas
November 13th - Brighton, UK - Green Door Store
November 4th - Bristol, UK - Rough Trade Bristol
November 15th - London, UK - Sebright Arms
November 16th - Paris, FR - Petit Bain
November 17th - Graz, AT - Autumn Leaves
November 18th - Berlin, DE - Monarch
November 20th - Brussels, BE - Botanique Witloof Bar

* = w/ Wye Oak
%= w/ Sugar Candy Mountain

Madeline Kenney - Cut Me Off

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Feelings

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Drunk On A Rhythm - Single

07/25/2019

Drunk On A Rhythm

Immunity out on August 2nd

Pre-save the album:
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Lyrics:
I think we could do it if we tried
If only to say, you're mine
Sofia know that you and I
Shouldn't feel like a crime

I think we could do it if we tried
If only to say, you're mine
Sofia know that you and I
Shouldn't feel like a crime

You know
I’ll do anything you ask me to
But oh my god
I think I’m in love with you

Standing here alone now
Think that we can drive around
I just want to say
How I love you with your hair down
Baby you don’t got to fight
I’ll be here til the end of time 
Wishing that you were mine
Pull you in, It's alright

I think we could do it if we tried
If only to say, you're mine
Sofia know that you and I
Shouldn't feel like a crime

Honey, 
I don't want it to fade
There’s things that I know
could get in the way 
But, I don't want to say goodbye
And I think that we 
Could do it if we tried

I think we could do it if we tried
If only to say, you're mine
Sofia know that you and I
Shouldn't feel like a crime

I think we could do it if we tried
I think we could do it if we tried
Sofia know that you and I
Shouldn't feel like a crime
Sofia know that you and I
Shouldn't feel like a crime

Sofia

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Marmelade Kids: song of the day on NPR ( http://www.npr.org/2011/04/29/135839094/dumbo-gets-mad-a-revival-not-a-rehash )

"Cooked up in the same kind of kitchen that brought us Super Furry Animals's deliciously strange Rings Around the World and the Flaming Lips's interstellar classic Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots" (Dave Toropov - Slant Magazine)

“Great psych band from Italy – Plumy Tale made my top 50 last year”. (Joe Tangari - Pitchfork)

"Comincia come un disco degli MGMT per poi assumere le sembianze di una sofisticata colonna sonora d'altri tempi" (Giacomo De Poli - PIG Magazine)


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