Summer Wine

NATIVE PEOPLE - TAPES EP
Release date: 25th May 2015

Pre-order 'Tapes' EP from iTunes including The Citrus Clouds and Lua Sonique remixes:
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'All blazing synths, lazer sharp guitars and anthemic vocals' - Clash premiere
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‘Mathy melodies, slick licks and funky percussion’ – Spindle Magazine

Up-and-coming indie-dance quartet Native People announce their debut EP ‘Tapes’, set for independent release on 25th May.
The band’s previous efforts have been widely praised, with their first single, ‘Calm Forever’ being highlighted as BBC Introducing’s ‘Record of the Week’ and Amazing Radio’s ‘Discovery of the Week’, while its follow up, ‘ONE’, received multiple plays on Tom Robinson's BBC 6Music radio show.

The coastal quartet, who hail from Kent, say: ‘the inspiration for Tapes EP started with us setting out to create our own vision of dance music and indie guitars, building on our earlier material by pushing the tempo and refining the production’.
The result is three seaside-influenced, sentimental takes on dreamscape indiedance, plus two remixes of the title cut, courtesy of Earmilk-approved The Citrus Clouds and electro-disco collective Lua Sonique. To record ‘Tapes’, the band teamed up with Mark Lord, who recorded their first singles, and whose previous remixing work has earned radio play from BBC Radio 1’s Pete Tong. Lord’s strong background in dance music production, coupled with the band’s unanimous admiration of 80s synths and the early progenitors of power-pop, has resulted in a refreshingly upbeat EP that’s perfect for its early summer release.

Despite their youth, Reuben (21), Luke (20), Connor (18) and Hudd (18), masterfully craft songs well beyond their years, citing a wealth of influences and drawing impressive comparisons to acts such as Foals, Two Door Cinema Club and Friendly Fires. The band cite their own influences on this record as Theme Park, The 1975, and Bombay Bicycle Club, married with an effort to capture that much-loved 80s vintage sound. Already sporting a strong live following, which has seen them support acts such
as Mausi, Jaws, and Dave Rowntree of Blur on tour, Native People also played a sold-out show at KOKO for Club NME last September.

They return to the live fore to play an electric EP launch at Barfly this May, along with performing at Spindle Magazine’s stage at The Great Escape, kicking off a summer that’s bound to hold big things for these talented newcomers.

Tapes

why is he making music with no profit incentive ? there must be something wrong here...

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A song by Gone in the Sun. Realease date August 10.

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SMILE

Written by Lowell Sostomi
Produced by Only Yours and Leon Taheny
Engineered by Leon Taheny
Mixed by Leon Taheny
Mastered by Eric Boulanger
Cover Art by Corey Gibbs

Different

'Stormy Eyes'. First single from the second Tales in Space album. 
Recorded, mixed and produced by Luke Bertoz. 
Mastered by Leon Zervos at Studios 301.

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Stormy Eyes

‘Honey’ explores the concept of loving someone for their flaws and failures. Constructed on a bed of muted guitar playing, and fleshed with soft synthesiser pads, the song is lulling and hypnotic. As Barwick says, ‘…we wanted to recreate the feeling of a diary entry, to try our best to connect directly with people and move them from place of honesty’. His beat-making exists in both the analog and the digital world, using claps, cymbals and shakers alongside programming and glitches. 

Honey

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Faults

Badlands

what have I done
mistakes that we become
looking for love where love is gone
find out what it means to face the world alone
hope is drying out
fill my head with doubt
am I lost or am I found
a shiver in my bones
still we carry on
blinded by the night 
we chase the rising sun

don't lose your heart in the badlands
you won't find a friend in the dust
don't let your dreams ever die
look for a light in the darkness
drink the wine but it tastes like blood
don't lose yourself to the madness

I can feel a driving force
drawn to stay the course
my body aches to be reborn
tempted by these ghosts before the race is won
we're somewhere in between the wire and the gun

don't lose your heart in the badlands
you won't find a friend in the dust
don't let your dreams ever die
look for a light in the darkness
drink the wine but it tastes like blood
don't lose yourself to the madness

Artwork by - Sahir Khan http://sahirkhan.com

Strange Days

Badlands

Purification Ritual

You appeared
Like jewels hung where water meets the sky 
Like ripples dancing over burning sand
A rag tag bunch of rascals, home to roost
Each one of you making waves in your own way

I found it here 
Among sunflowers and tangled in wisteria
Ringing through the halls of our old home 
Glitra left in places I will never ever reach

Framing life in squares
We’re tied up in triangles
Your mind is yours not mine
But we see the same pictures
We paint them in circles

I see us there 
Ten years on and still we’re back again
We’ll be staring the night down
Holding our hands out
 
Framing life in squares
We’re tied up in triangles
Your mind is yours not mine
But we see the same pictures
We paint them in circles

Framing life in squares
We’re tied up in triangles
Your mind is yours not mine
But we see the same pictures
We paint them in circles

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Glitra

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Purification Ritual

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