Redtrack // The Trier // New Single
Redtrack release their new single The Trier this month, taken from the album Whole Towns Heart which is also released this month via Club Fandango.
You might have heard their previous single, which was featured on Steve Lamacqs and also it’s video featured on the Topman retail shops TV screens.
This is the fourth release from Southend’s Redtrack and precedes the album ’Whole Town’s Heart’, to be released on Fierce Panda sub label Fandango on August 9th.
‘Whole Town’s Heart’ is the debut album by Redtrack. It is chewy and tuneful and, with its smalltown panic attacks and punchy new wave melodic jabs, sees them nodding towards the classic Britpopesque heritage of Weller, Difford and Costello. It features a feisty guest appearance from ‘Hollyoaks’ starlet Hollie Jay Bowes on ‘Pretty Boy’, a spin-off from the band’s recent performance on the show.
Redtrack recently won the Hollyoaks Music Show competition and appeared on the Channel 4 soap in February this year. Bands were invited to upload a track to the programme’s website and from hundreds of entries the top nine were selected to perform on a series, screened since October, on E4. The trio were mentored by Hollie-Jay Bowes, who plays Michaela McQueen in the show. Hollie-Jay said: “I’m really chuffed Redtrack won the competition. They’re a wicked band.”
‘Whole Town’s Heart’ is also the first ever album release on Label Fandango, the Pointy Recordings / fierce panda offshoot which has previously concentrated on ace singles by the likes of Broken Records, Fanfarlo, Air Traffic and more. And frankly it is a miracle that this record even exists seeing as how three years ago bassist Phil Blake was attacked with an airgun and a meat cleaver and so badly hurt that he needed microsurgery on severed tendons in his arm. That he is back playing is a testament to his spirit in the face of potentially crippling adversity.
This year they also played the Radio 1 Introducing stage at the Leeds/Reading Festival:
www.bbc.co.uk/music/festivals/readingandleeds/2010/artists/redtrack/
Redtrack released“Perfectly Fine Intellectual / Imogen” on Label Fandango. This is the fourth release from Southend’s Redtrack and precedes the album “Whole Town’s Heart”, to be released on Fierce Panda.
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“Perky indie-punk scuffles” - NME
“My new favourite band” – Pete Shelley (The Buzzcocks)
“‘Pole Dancer’ is a volatile shimmy through some Libertines style indie and View style energy. Redtrack are brimming with confidence”
- Fuse Magazine
“…up beat bouncy indie-punk rock with a dangerously infectious edge” - Rock On The Web
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