Every now and again here at The Rally, we get emails from bands, labels
and publishers, trying to get themselves and their latest charges
featured on the blog - you may scoff, but judging by the emails this is
some prime real estate you're looking at right now. A favourite was the
email offering me tickets to a showcase gig at the South By Southwest
festival - unfortunately they wouldn't stretch to airfare and
accommodation but it doesn't hurt to ask...
Not many of these bands have inspired me to write about them, but last week I got an unassuming email from The Swimmers of Philadelphia, asking if I wanted to download a copy of their unreleased album, "Fighting Trees". Well, why not...
The Swimmers - It's Time They Knew
The Swimmers - Home
I
think it's a great album - bits of Summerteeth-era-Wilco, Beach Boys,
The Shins and Arcade Fire in there - frontman Steve Yutzy-Burkey has a
touch of the Jason Lytle's about him, too. Man, I don't know about you,
but every now and then I just need me some grade-A, pounding, anthemic
American indie-repeato-rock and this more than fits the bill. What do
you think?
The album will hopefully be out sometime in the Spring - no date as yet, but until then visit their MySpace and befriend them. They have some US dates planned over the next month, too, if you're out that way.
I'm
hoping that Marc-o gets a chance to hear these 'cos I think he'd love
'em - especially the needly Juno lead bit on "Home".
One of the reasons
I'm posting these is to celebrate the latest addition to the ever
expanding legion of Johnny Domino fans - we're giving birth to 'em one
at a time! Big love to Marc-o and Claire xxx
Visit - The Swimmers website
Visit - The Swimmers MySpace
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