Tall Firs play ATP’s I’ll Be Your Mirror London this month. Here’s the third free downloadable cover versions of a track by another artist on the festival line-up…
Tall Firs play ATP’s I’ll Be Your Mirror London this month. Here’s the second free downloadable cover versions of a track by another artist on the festival line-up. This time the band take on The Afghan Whigs:
Tall Firs play ATP’s I’ll Be Your Mirror London this month. In the weeks leading up to the event as a gift to attendees, the band will release free downloadable cover versions of tracks by other artists on the festival line-up. This first track is a cover of I Am Pentagon by The Make-Up – download it now from Soundcloud.
A trio of new European shows; these are in addition to the previously announced festival appearances at I’ll Be Your Mirror London and Primavera Barcelona and Porto:
June 3 La Maroquinerie, Paris (with Lee Ranaldo) – Tickets
June 4 Trix, Antwerp (with Lee Ranaldo) – Tickets
June 5 King Georg, Cologne – Tickets
Recorded live in Manchester by Scene Wipe: manchesterscenewipe.co.uk
Tall Firs bring their heart heavy lullabies and light hearted banter to the halls of higher learning at New York University: Hear an exclusive live set and their corresponding interview with host Molly Smith of WNYU 89.1FM’s New Afternoon Show, between 5:00 and 5:45PM (USA time) Tuesday April 17th. You can also tune in online at WNYU.org.
The 17th is also Dave’s birthday which he loathes, so count yourself lucky the show was pre-recorded on April 4th; otherwise it would’ve been nothing but whimpering and drunken tirades about whatever recent failure was somebody else’s fault. Engineering was provided by James McPhee.
Aaron and Dave wrote the book on late night punch lines and early morning regrets; they also wrote a literary supplement for the last ATP festival which was published like a newspaper on the eve of Sunday’s festivities. The little zine managed to ease the gaps between Saturday night’s black outs and the desperate fun left to be had on Sunday, with their mixture of light and dark incantations from lives spent skipping beer bottle caps across wasted, early morning mud puddles.
‘Out Of It And Into It’ – the third album from Tall Firs and their first for ATP Recordings is out now on CD, LP (with download card) and Digital Download. The LP download card features five bonus cover versions with the band recording songs by Thurston Moore, Neutral Milk Hotel, Sebadoh, Magnetic Fields and The Fall.
The album has been getting some rave reviews, with The Times naming it their CD of the week this last Sunday calling it ‘extremely pleasurable’, Clash highlighting it’s ‘exquisitive guitar’ and ‘thoughtful eloquence’, a 4/5 from Q who call it ‘wonderfully bleak’ and Uncut who call it ‘singular, affecting and timeless.’
To hear the album’s single Crooked Smiles visit Soundcloud.
Click here to buy the album on CD or Vinyl, or here to buy via iTunes!
The band play the following UK shows this week to support the album launch…
15th March – Basement, City Screen in York, tickets £6 in advance
16th March – The Trof in Fallowfield Manchester, tickets £4 in advance
17th March – London Upstairs at The Garage, tickets £5 in advance
Today sees the release of track 5 in the ATP Curated by Jeff Mangum cover project…
This is Fake DIY currently have an exclusive stream of the new Tall Firs album ‘Out Of It And Into It’ which you can hear in full here.
The album is out next week, pre-orders available from the ATP Store.
