Redspencer announces upcoming album ‘Perks’ and shares track
via Brooklyn Vegan
STREAM: “Rainbows”
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Introducing Redspencer, recent inductees into Melbourne‘s flourishing bedroom-pop scene. Yesterday on Brooklyn Vegan, Redspencer announced their upcoming album ‘Perks’. With the announcement, the band shared the first track from the album “Rainbows“. ‘Perks’ is due November 18 on Deaf Ambitions.
In late 2013, rural-born brothers Dave and Aiden McMillian traded the sun-drenched plains of northern New South Wales for the rich cultural tapestry — and comparatively dreary weather — of Melbourne. 2015 sees the two siblings (alongside Andre Franco on bass, and Alex Buchanan on guitar) continue to draw influence from their provenance in Redspencer.
The four-piece’s eponymous debut EP is a hark back to the band’s humble beginnings, evoking images of balmy, mid-summer drives along the coast with the windows down. The sunny, reverb-swathed guitar- pop of lead single ‘Happy Slow Riverbends’ captures that image to a tee, rousing comparisons to the likes of Spoon and Real Estate.
Latest single ‘Fuss’ (taken from their forthcoming debut LP) however, channels the trademark non-chalance of ‘90s cult-classics Yo La Tengo — complete with jangling guitars and mellow harmonies, blanketed with layers of groggy analogue synth. Below the surface lies the poignant musings of songwriter Dave McMillan, whose lyrics have been described as “existentialism for the everyman”. It makes for an undeniably arresting, and at times, all too earnest combo.
Despite only having a four-track EP to their name, Redspencer have already garnered avid praise from the likes of NME, CMJ, Triple J, Indie Shuffle, and Time Out New York with ‘Ride It Out’ included at #14 in their Best Songs of 2015.
With festival appearances at Brisbane’s Big Day Out, By The Meadow, Camp Casual, and Laneway Festival’s annual Live Music Safari – not to mention tour supports with Guantanamo Baywatch, The Preatures and Holy Holy – to their name, Redspencer are soon to be firing on all cylinders as they gear up for the release of their keenly anticipated debut album.
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Redspencer
Perks
Deaf Ambitions
Street Date: November 18, 2016 [pre-order]
01. G-Talk
02. Fuss
03. Spare Me
04. Rainbows
05. Hard Work
06. Interlude
07. Perks
08. Petrol
09. Ride It Out
10. Some People
11. Convenience
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