 | If Pavement crashed into The Cars and then ricocheted into Sonic Youth you'd end up with something like The Golden Age, beautiful in simplicity and confusing in complexity, memorable.
Born out of accident more than anything, Dallas and Kat made good on a promise spoken of in a stupor and started bouncing musical ideas off each other. Dallas as the springboard and Kat as the foil, the two couldn't produce what they do without the other. Bring in two friends, Anthony & Jen as a "let's just do it and see what happens" scenario and the car crash makes wonderful wreckage.
28 home demos and 20 gigs later and with a major music festival (Homebake) showing under their belt, The Golden Age came to the attention of newly formed label Red Recordings, again, by accident. With enough songs to make a great album (no EPs please, remember when bands just made albums?) the four shy ones are thrown into the alien environment of a decent studio to swagger, stumble and find themselves. Just let be what will be, no pretence, no grand schemes, just record songs, make mistakes, imperfection is perfect here.
The result is "Mexico City Bees", 14 songs, fast, slow and in between, all of them true. Their debut single "Dirty Bird" is available for download right here. |
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