Dappled Cities Release Zounds

“It’s as daggy and classy, cunning and futuristic, as us!” - Dappled Cities

Dappled Cities sophomore record, Zounds, will be available via Dangerbird Records, September 15th. The first single, "The Price" is described as "political disco." And the bands longest track to date, "THe Night Is Young At Heart" clocks in at six minutes. What gives with the prog rock length? Band member Dave Rennick explains, “Big, long, aggressive, weird: an in-ya-face sound people are either going to love or hate – and that’s the mark of a great song, isn’t it?”

Tracklisting

Hold Your Back
Answer Is Zero
The Price
Wooden Ships
Slow For Me, My Island
The Night Is Young At Heart
Miniature Alas
Don't Stop There
Kid
Middle People
Apart
Stepshadows


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Trivia: A $40.00 "build-it-yourself" cardboard synthesiser from Japan was used on all 12 songs.

Bio:
The band, originally called Periwinkle, formed in 1997 when 15 year-olds David Rennick and Hugh Boyce were joined by Alex Moore and English born Tim Derricourt. Their first album, A Smile (released in 2004 under the new moniker - Dappled Cities Fly), was a home-recorded, independent hit in Australia, and its tracks were later remixed as A Crooked Smile EP by the likes of an emerging Wolfmother and Spod.

The band’s sophomore effort Granddance was a grandiose record full of oldeworld ideas and cutting-edge sonics (& their first platter on the Dangerbird label), which was uncoiled to mass acclaim in 2006. The following two years were spent touring the US with the likes of The Fratellis and Tokyo Police Club, with fiery forays home riding shotgun to silverchair, Modest Mouse and LCD Soundsystem.


Press:
"As stripped-down Dappled Cities instrumentation can get, Granddance swells with a full-bodied atmosphere that envelops every chord". - Spin