The Pastels & Tenniscoats
Written by willshoob on Tuesday, 25 of August , 2009 at 4:51 pm
The legendary Glasgow group are making a record with the Japanese group Tenniscoats, which will see daylight September 22nd. The album will be released by Domino Records .
This collaboration which eventually became the Two Sunsets album arose from a suggestion by Tenniscoats that some studio time be booked while they were in Glasgow, just to see what happens, and maybe to try to find out what it is that they have in common. The first recording was promising and slightly rushed, but suggested enough to carry on. Tenniscoats had often been playing shows in Scotland, over a two or three year period at various recording sessions, it suddenly seemed like they’d accumulated about an album of songs which originated from members of both groups, Saya and Ueno from Tenniscoats, and Stephen and Katrina from The Pastels, with Gerard Love always there too, and often Tom Crossley, Alison Mitchell, and sometimes Norman Blake and Bill Wells.
It all felt very natural; graceful notes, odd notes and finally now arriving as if on the summer air, through the trees, and down the slope, this single and then an album, not one, Two Sunsets.
Check out a video for the first single, “Vivid Youth”, and download a cover of the Jesus & Mary Chain track, “About You.”
The Pastels & Tenniscoats- About You
Category: Albums, New Music, Videos
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