Wednesday 20 November 2013

okay, so montreal is totally itunes canada single of the week




the title says it all.

look closer, bottom left.

yep, that's us.

this really is turbo-cool, though. some of you more eagle-eared kitelings may have noticed that i am rather partial to canadian music. in fact, most of the bands who influence us are from there. do make say think, godspeed, broken social scene, metric, arcade fire, silver mt zion, the list is evident to anyone who has ever lain ears on us.

and so this is kind of a big deal for us. i can try to sound all cool and nonchalant, dry and disaffected, drenched in lower case sarcasm, but this is really actually fucking amazing. we named a track after a canadian city because that place is like a mecca for us, and canada isn't just the really cold country north of the the states. it's the really cold country north of the states that consistently shows the states where it's going wrong socially, morally and judicially whilst pumping out sweet as hell killer bands (we love the states too, for a whole load of other reasons, so please don't think we're hating on you, usa, we really want to be in you).

we are extremely happy kites. this is a great day. we would give anything to be able to come over to canada, to play montreal in montreal, to hit the bovine sex club in toronto and get hella drunk watching rock & rule on the screens above the bar, to see the mountains loom over every vancouver street corner.

so go download it for free, my dear canadians. if you like it, go grab the album. cos we want to come play for you. but you have to want us like we want you. and we do want you. like, in a creepy way we want you.

what a wonderful day.


Thursday 7 November 2013

and the album is officially released



songs for crow has flown the coop.

it is now yours to do with as you please.

you can download it from itunes here.

you can purchase a physical copy from rough trade here.

you can also listen to it on spotify and grooveshark and you can torrent and steal it and do whatever you like to it, but you'll have to find your own links for that cos i'm not giving you any, bite me.

a huge thank you to everyone who deserves a thank you, you know who you are. we couldn't have done this without you.

a particularly special thank you to tom and jamie, without whom i literally wouldn't have been able to do it (and i mean 'literally' in the literal sense, not the over-used garbage english sense).

biggest thanks of all to lm, without whom there wouldn't have been anyone to try and impress and eventually woo by writing a bunch of music.

and of course, the kites themselves, laura, jim, jon, paul and nick. what a lovely racket we make.

stay tuned for the next moves.

this is just the start.

drk x