New Music From Tiny Dancers
Big sounds come in small packages.
Tiny Dancers represent some lost and rarely tapped into genres for a new British group. Named after a troupe of sinister dwarves in Roger Corman's The Masque of the Red Death, (no credit to you, Mr. Dwight), Free School Milk is the debut album from this colorful Sheffield based five piece. The album conjures up one big indie backyard bonfire, a sort of pleasant middle finger to the brash garage pop of late. Bordering on the playful side but never entering Chuck E. Cheese territory, platinum blonde front man David Kay takes us through a set of child-like escapism.
Tiny Dancers taps into the earthy tones of groups like the Band and The Cyrkle, and also the darker suggestions of James and Crowded House. Producer John Leckie (Stone Roses, Muse, Cast) adds his trademarks sense of pop hypnosis on tracks like "Hannah We Know". Starting off as a simple rootsy pop track in form, the song builds upon itself much like the sugary and innocent psychedelia of the mid-60's American radio hits.
Free School Milk is available via import on Parlophone Records.
Posted by Joe Roth on Jul 16, 2008 @ 6:45 am