We’re super excited to announce the release of the fantastic new single ‘Drank and Kites and Tomorrow’ from Australian experimental popsters perth. The track is lifted from their highly anticipated sophomore album What’s Your Utopia? out November 14th through Hidden Shoal. Download the single now at the Hidden Shoal Store and via Bandcamp or stream it over at SoundCloud.
There’s a triumphant yet subtle majesty to ‘Drank and Kites and Tomorrow’ as the track summons forth glowing brass arrangements, reverb-drenched vocals and skittering breakbeats crafted from found sounds. What begins as an addictive dream-pop tune with a wonderfully bucolic atmosphere builds into a krautrock jam reminiscent of Neu! and Caribou if they’d used ocarina and Casiotone. This opening to their forthcoming sophomore album is a delicious portal into perth’s incandescent musical universe.
perth’s forthcoming album What’s Your Utopia? manages to meld psychedelic pop, folk-laced electronica and shoegaze into a beautifully cohesive statement – a tribute to the idea of a fond place, or utopia, quietly residing in ‘no place’, beyond ourselves. The band’s magic lies in their ability to refract the individual members’ unique sensibilities through an experimental lens.
The band’s debut Babes, Water, Waves landed in a number of best of 2012 lists and scooped glowing reviews wherever it was covered. Here’s a quick taste,
“a record that has surpassed all expectation… combines elements of post-rock, electronica and psych, but this genre-collage never feels forced. Instead, it’s a well-constructed body of work that sounds more accomplished than any debut record I’ve heard in quite a while” – Life is Noise on Babes, Water, Waves
perth – ‘Drank and Kites and Tomorrow’