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Givers

May
24
posted by tommy

Introducing your new favourite band: Givers. There’s a mesh of influences from bands such as Vampire Weekend and Local Natives and guitar tones that sound like they’ve been sampled straight out of Paul Simon’s Graceland (At least in Up, Up, Up). The intesity of the electric guitar at the end of both tracks reminds me of the almighty Fang Island (who I really should have posted about sometime way back when). Despite all these references they’ve still managed to create their own niche in the global soundscape and it’s working for me.

This five piece formed in 2009 and they’ve since signed to Glassnote Records (the same folks who handle Mumford, Phoenix, Two Door Cinema Club etc) so you know that they’ll be crazy huge, crazy soon. That gives you a one month window to enjoy their music before you decide that “you liked their earlier stuff better”. They’ll have a full-length titled In Lights out on June 7th 2011 (but we’ll all agree to hate them by then). In the meantime though, take this in. Unreal.

Givers – ‘In My Eyes’

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Givers – ‘Up, Up, Up’

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This post featured seven mentions of bands that aren’t Givers and four examples of parentheses. I did stats at uni so I know how to work this sort of thing out.

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