Dappled Cities Fly – Granddance
My favorite new album? We’ll have to see about that, but it sure is one of the better ones I’ve heard in quite a while. It’s really crazy how randomly I find some music. Earlier this morning I had no intentions of looking for new music, but an email about Dappled Cities followed by the rest of the morning spent listening to their upcoming album Granddance changed all that.
Dappled Cities Fly are from Sydney, Austrailia and have seen success already in their home country with Granddance in 2006 and are hoping to get big here in the States releasing the album June 3rd of this year. I can’t say exactly, but I think they’re calling themselves Dappled Cities, minus the “Fly”, here in the States. The music itself is an odd hybrid of a lot of bands, but it seems to change with each song. “The Eve The Girl” and “Within Hours” sound vaguely like Guster singing with Broken Social Scene. “Granddance” sounds like Mew if they were less annoying, and “Beach Song” has a slight Shins feel too it. I bring up these comparisons to give you something to go off of, but when all is said and done, Dappled Cities really have a sound of their own and are one of the more refreshingly original bands I’ve heard in a long time.
I wish them the best of luck here in the States once their album is released and really hope their album is as well received here as it seems to have been in Austrailia. I can’t guarantee it’ll make my year end list, but it sure is a welcome surprise today. Hopefully you guys end up enjoying them as much as I currently am, but it’s hard to dislike a band that not only makes great music, but also re-enacted the final beach scene from Point Break on the actual beach it was filmed at. That gets them points in my book. Enjoy the mp3’s and check the links below for more info on Dappled Cities.
Holy Chord (my favorite by far. 2:19 in is the best part)
Released Date: June 3rd, 2007
Dangerbird Records
01. Holy Chord
02. Work it Out
03. Fire Fire Fire
04. Colour Coding
05. Beach Song
06. Vision Bell
07. The Eve the Girl
08. Granddance
09. Within Hours
10. Watercourse
11. Battlewon
Official Site / Myspace / Buy Granddance
Fire, Fire, Fire
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