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Mustard Coloured Years

by Wild Cat Strike

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Mustard 03:05
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Can’t complain Visions 10-a-penny But all the same Just red break-light skies How’ve you been Do yourself a favour Let it go Can’t teach a dead dog new tricks (I’ll be waiting) You stress me out Tell me that I’m pretty A comb through hair You keep running through my mind Wearing thin It suits me too the marrow What do you think? No more skipping meals (I’ll be waiting) I’ll be right behind you Mustard coloured Cocaine college years I’ll be a save reminder Pentecostal healing Pretending hollow spirits Oh sweet happiness You got a real mean streak Through the honey moon phase When we were young How bad did it taste Sea water salt Sea water salt Dum dumdum dum
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Toothcutter (Part 1) 03:07
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Toothcutter (Part 2) 02:19
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4.
Swamp 04:30
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5.
Beekeeper Song 01:11
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about

Brighton four-piece Wild Cat Strike are pleased to announce that they will release their forthcoming new EP, Mustard Coloured Years, on 17th April 2020 via Small Pond Records.

“Mustard can be quite a divisive colour,” says vocalist Danny Byrom, “whether it’s on some wallpaper or a suit shirt. And our thoughts can be both tasteless and inspired, dependent on context. Just like a pair of mustard-coloured corduroy trousers.”

Thematically, the Mustard Coloured Years EP carries on where their debut album Rhubarb Nostalgia finished—the closing line of which (“I can’t complain”) being the opening line of the new EP. “For me this works as a p.s at the end of a letter,” says Byrom of the record, “the stories not yet fully told. Lyrically it has similar themes—the grand narratives in life. I think it’s hard to avoid.”

“I like to find unique analogies that haven’t been found, but once heard they seem like they have always existed; the loud wallpaper in a quiet room, traffic jams bringing in a red brake-light-coloured sunset, the night disguising the roads as strips of liquorice, wondering who tamed the carousel horses, a cherry branch in at random signifying good luck, the easiest thing to do being to learn the hard way, trying no to worry where you are going to sleep at the end of the day knowing that heaven’s always got a spare room; just in case...”

Prior to the new singles, the band most recently released their The Blood Orange Sessions EP (2019), featuring exclusive live sessions, reimaginings, and alternate versions of tracks from their full-length debut Rhubarb Nostalgia. Channelling their gleeful sense of cacophony and flair for sonic abrasion into an engrossing record of off-kilter indie pop songs that hooked hard on the heartstrings as they crisscross in and out of chaos, the EP was a beautifully packaged treat that showed a softer and more introspective side to their diverse, chameleonic indie pop.

To date the foursome have enjoyed radio support from the BBC Radio 1 Rock Show and Radcliffe & Maconie at BBC 6Music, with early press coverage from CLASH, DORK, God Is In The TV Zine, Echoes & Dust and many more. Over the past few years they’ve slowly but surely developed their formidable sound via a relentless slew of live shows including sets at ArcTanGent, 2000 Trees, Y Not Festival, and Bad Pond Festival, and tour dates with The Xcerts, Delta Sleep, Tigercub, LIRR, Natalie Evans, I Feel Fine, and more.

Mustard Coloured Years is released 17th April 2020 via Small Pond Records

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released April 17, 2020

Max Boughen - guitar, piano, synth, vocals
Danny Byrom - vocals, guitar, piano, synth, rhodes
Chris Whitehorn - bass, rhodes, synth, vocals
Joe Caple - drums, synth, vocals

Additional vocals by Bonniesongs, Matt from Yannik, Antoine / Joe from I Feel Fine

Recorded and engineered by Joe Caple at Echo Zoo Studios and Small Pond
Mastered by Liam McMillan

Artwork by Melissa Kitty Jarram

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Wild Cat Strike Brighton, UK

Wild Cat Strike create a noisy-beautiful brand of alternative rock, brimming with post-rock and folk influences.

“They sound ace” - Dan P Carter (BBC R1 Rock Show)

“Witty, endlessly inventive songwriting… urbane indie rock that kicks harder than most” – Clash

“A great tune that we’ve found ourselves humming for days after hearing it” – Echoes & Dust

“Genius" - Huw Stephens ... more

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