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"Case & Point" is a previously unreleased basement recording and B-Side to the "Varsity" 7" available 7/9/13.  The full LP "Soft Will" is available now.  

This track is exclusive to the 7" which can be found at local indie record shops, for the one closet to you check here:  http://www.recordstoreday.com/Venues

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Smith Westerns - "Case & Point" (basement recording)

This basement recording features as the B-Side to a limited tour-only "3am Spiritual" 7", available on the band's forthcoming US dates with Sky Ferreira.

11/11: New York, NY @ Webster Hall
11/13: Boston, MA @ The Paradise
11/14: Syracuse, NY @ Westcott Theatre
11/15: Philadelphia, PA @ The Church
11/18 Washington, DC @ 930 Club
11/20 Detroit, MI @ The Magic Stick
11/21 Columbus, OH @ A&R
11/22 Madison, WI @ High Noon
11/23 Chicago, IL @ The Vic

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"3am Spiritual" (basement recording)

Smith Westerns have cleaned up nicely. Just over a year ago, the Chicago foursome were of the strictly "lo-fi" persuasion, stirring up hot, filthy garage-rock candy out of Marc Bolan and Beatles signifiers. It was youthful music in feeling and sound-- their noisy full-length debut was recorded while they were still in high school-- but the remarkable hooks buried therein were clear enough to land them on the increasingly stacked Fat Possum roster. And suddenly, they had a studio budget the likes of which they definitely hadn't enjoyed before. Though the leap is audibly huge, Dye It Blonde's many successes aren't wholly the result of its gilded production values and ambition. This band was able to furnish first-class melodies from the beginning. Now they've grown along with their resources.

You can hear the progress right away in "Imagine, Pt. 3", a song originally released as part of a split 7" in April 2010. Sped up here just a touch, it's also been re-outfitted with a far creamier set of synths and guitars. The way the latter seem to clasp hands during the coda is particularly breathtaking, frontman Cullen Omori and guitarist Max Kakacek letting their individual lines mate rather than duel. While the melodic foundation was already sturdy throughout, here, what once sounded ragged in stretches is now plush-upholstered from start to finish. Every single piece of Dye It Blonde is similarly decadent, whether it's the sweet whine of semi-titular closer "Dye the World" or the twilight jangle of "End of the Night".

In an interview not long after the album's completion, Omori noted that this otherwise new set of songs was influenced by 90s Britpop luminaries like Oasis, Teenage Fanclub, and Suede. All are present sonically and spiritually, be it in brash tones, melodic IQ or the sheer scope of these recordings. Where a Smith Westerns hook may have once sounded like another fuzzy member of the Nuggets family/genus, it now unfolds like crane-shot, mainstage festival fare. "Still New" for example floats some phasered guitar interplay before Kakacek rips a hole across the chest of the song with a woozy line so big it essentially serves as a chorus. Like "Weekend", whose central, hair-flipping lick also hugs all its parts together perfectly, the song just sounds so drunk-- drunk on love, drunk on heavy petting, drunk on drink, or maybe just drunk on a some combination of the above. In song, it all depends on the lean of Omori's voice and the whip of his chord changes, the curves of his brother Cameron's bass lines.

That moony/beery-eyed feel bleeds through every corridor of this album and in turn forms a crystalline expression of what moves this band. Their use of the studio in augmenting that never goes overboard, though: this music still retains the innately psychedelic, lamplit, tongue-kissed sense of atmosphere that set it apart. There's perhaps no better instance of all that than "All Die Young", the album's centerpiece. It's a ballad turned hymn whose grand, tumbling scale and "Oh Yoko"-indebted outro celebration are peaks on an album rich in them. In its closing moments, Omori sings what sounds like, "Love is lovely when you are young." They were convincing before, but now they seem like experts.

— David Bevan, January 18, 2011 [Pitchfork | Best New Music | 8.4]

Dye The World

first song taken from upcoming EP 'More Songs'

limited run of 12" records out on Trout Records, Feb 16

painting 'upper room east wall' is by Sligo artist Clive Bright, used with kind permission of the artist.

Pay Me What I'm Worth

New single from Maud in Cahoots released on September 25th 2015. Produced by James Darkin at Temple Lane Studios, Dublin. The track is available to download now - https://spinnup.com/gb/release/cure-for-the-crazy/

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Maud in Cahoots comprise of Dublin sisters Maud and Zoe Ní Riordáin, Stephen Markham and Alan Connon .

"Undisputedly one of the finest unsigned acts in the country. We recommend getting on this particular bandwagon early. If they become as big as they deserve to, you may soon struggle to get tickets.... - Hot Press Magazine

Combining luscious chamber-pop arrangements with melancholy melodies worthy of the most lovelorn of Scandinavian chanteuses, Maud in Cahoots occupy a point on the alternative music epi-centre. In September 2014 the band presented a music theatre piece at The Abbey theatre as part of the Tiger Dublin Fringe Festival. The Well Rested Terrorist was a unique piece of musical theatre, placing a live band in the context of a theatre that showed that this band isn’t afraid to do things differently. Maud in Cahoots released their single Greatest Achievement in April 2015 and following a busy transatlantic few months they are now releasing “Cure for the Crazy” on Friday 18th September.

Following an acclaimed slot at Electric Picnic Maud in Cahoots play a headline show at Dublin’s Grand Social on Saturday 19th September with special guest Cut Once .

SOME PRESS QUOTES

“One of the best sets of the weekend (Electric Picnic) was Maud in Cahoots…..It’s been fascinating to watch that band grow, develop and morph into something truly captivating with bags of star quality.” Una Mullally, Irish Times.


"Break out your calendars, gig-goers of Dublin, and mark in the date of the next Maud in Cahoots show in your diary. If you like to dance, if you like music, you’ll scarcely find a better act" – Goldenplec.com
 

****“Maud Ní Riordáin is a striking, controlled presence with a pristine voice...Maud in Cahoots present a ‘live concept album’... always absorbing; a painstaking work, given startling execution.” Peter Crawley, Irish Times.

“If Beyoncé patented the "visual album," then leave it to Irish alt-pop ensemble Maud in Cahoots to pioneer the "live concept album". Inspired by the phenomenon described by neurologist Oliver Sacks in his book Musicophilia, The Well Rested Terrorist casts an eye over the varying effects that music has on the human psyche. Featuring nine new songs composed by Maud in Cahoots, this piece stars the captivating Maud in Cahoots and Rory Fleck-Byrne as two subjects that can only communicate via the medium of music and explores just what music can do a person. Noteworthy for being the first Fringe show staged in The Abbey, the show places the band in a live context that isn't merely a gig in a pub. The result is a wholly unique meditation on infamy, fear and coming to terms with being yourself.”  Le Cool Dublin

“The Well Rested Terrorist reminds you why albums are things to savour and digest” Una Mullally, Irish Times

http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/poplife/2014/09/11/how-to-present-an-album/

“The festival can also work as a stage for acts to re-introduce or unveil a new aspect in their sound. Alternative-pop band Maud In Cahoots were a perfect example of this side to the HWCH experience.  As captivating and uncompromising as ever, the group’s show worked to highlight how they have continued to perfect and sculpt their music over the year. More thematic, theatrical and tinged in indie characteristics Maud In Cahoots gave an intriguing indication of how they have evolved in terms of sound.” – The Last Mixed Tape Blog.





CURE FOR THE CRAZY

Face To Face

New Album ' Mercury ' available Feb 24th 2017

Zodiac

7. Denroches Cross

Behind Your Walls

"3am Spiritual" from the forthcoming Smith Westerns album 'Soft Will' out June 25th on Mom+Pop (in Europe on June 24 via Co-Op).

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3am Spiritual

"Idol" from the forthcoming Smith Westerns album 'Soft Will' out June 25th on Mom+Pop (in Europe on June 24 via Co-Op).

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Behind Your Walls

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