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SPECIAL NOTICE FOR OUR REGULAR CUSTOMERS : IF YOU BUY ANY SEVEN TRACKS FROM 'FREAK SCENE' HERE ON BANDCAMP (from either the Frizz Records or Silver Panda stores), WE'LL SEND YOU THE REMAINING THREE SONGS FROM THE ALBUM, PLUS THE ALBUM ARTWORK FREE OF CHARGE IN THE FORMAT OF YOUR CHOICE. JUST DROP US A NOTE WHEN YOU BUY THE SEVENTH TO LET US KNOW!
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'Alcoholiday' is the seventh of ten instalments of The Silver Panda's debut album, entitled ‘Freak Scene’, which they're releasing song by song, one every two weeks...
The album is a set of ‘weird covers’… The original versions were all recorded between ’88 & ’92, by bands that used guitar noise at the centre of their sound (call it grunge, art punk, indie rock, shoegaze, whatever) - Dinosaur Jr, Sonic Youth, Pixies, Pavement, My Bloody Valentine… - and our versions strip away the dirt & the electricity, and reinvent what’s left with acoustic instruments, harmony voices, Latin percussion, jazz-inflected woodwinds…
The first six singles, their versions of Dinosaur Jr.'s 'Freak Scene', Pavement's 'Summer Babe' & 'So Stark (You're A Skyscraper)', 'You Made Me Realise' by My Bloody Valentine, 'She Rides The Waves by the Pale Saints and 'River Euphrates' by the Pixies, are available via the 'music' tab above ^^^
[Raphael Mann : ]
"Song number seven is our Silver Panda reworking of one of my favourite songs from the early '90s, which is Teenage Fanclub's 'Alcoholiday' from their debut 'Bandwagonesque' LP from 1991...
I loved the album when it came out, and it was a big influence on my teenage band at the time, and despite not being a single, I think this is the best song on it... The hook just seems to be endless...
I had a lot of fun on our version creating a bass guitar part on my trusty Hofner semi, with some sections having two basses happening at once, with a low part underpinning the chord and a higher part playing melodic counterpoint to the voices... I was really happy with the way it came out...
Some tasty glockenspiel action in there too for fans of twinkly tuned percussion..."
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