tomorrow is the one. the big day. the day you've all (ideally) been waiting for.
that's right, besides justin bieber's birthday, tomorrow is the day we release our EP.
really it's a labour of love, this thing. you can say it's been a long time coming as well: we recorded treeman and catwalk over a year ago now, and the rest back in the autumn. i still fondly remember the day when we walked, baby faced and innocent, into the hallowed rooms of czar street, clutching our instruments and hoping to lay down something special. hopefully we achieved that, although you'll all be the ones to judge. we've had great fun making "frenchgirls" and we're proud of it; with enough luck everybody that hears it will appreciate the effort. i can promise right now that it's a damn sight better than jfkep.
you're all very familiar with catwalk by now, and in fact the majority of you will already know about the various tweaks it's been through to get it to the version that kicks off the EP. i think luka's multi-instrumentalism really shines here, stellar work.
ricochet ricochet is a relatively new song (relatively being the key word because, y'know, it's still like a year and a half old), and was probably the most complicated to work out. there's a lot of trickiness involved, but we came through in the end. while we'll be the first to admit that our live version of it, while getting better, isn't the greatest, on the EP i think we've managed to get it to its full glorious potential.
slippy has had a few incarnations, as have a lot of our songs. it's been through more name changes than any other song we've created, and still nothing we came up with was good enough for us to bother changing from slippy. we've grown to love it, in a way. sounds good too - some nice harms going on in the chorus, props to ben and jamie and me for that.
nine lives actually won the poll that we did on twitter to determine which song we'd release before tomorrow, but y'know, we forgot to release it. sorry. hopefully you can find a way to forgive us. besides, there's only like 6 hours to wait until you can hear it anyway, so no biggie. being in a six piece band it's very hard to do anything subtle, but nine lives is (we think) a very valiant attempt. this version is a tad more fleshy than the live one, but that's not to say that it takes away from the song, which is great.
and you've all heard treeman on fire by now. if you haven't, what the hell. we released it in october bro, get on that shit. the EP version is ohsoslightly different to the single version though... whoever can guess how gets an amazing prize that we'll think of later.
please please please enjoy this EP, you can buy it from our bandcamp or from itunes for only £2 (although it's like 20p more on itunes for some reason), or stream it on our spotify.
and finally, to keep you occupied tonight if you're dedicated to staying up late enough to hear the EP when it drops, thom's made a special playlist on spotify for you all to listen to to get you hyped for the release
let's fuckin go m8 xox
