Skibunny - Hugs

SKIBUNNY. That name rings a bell…… Some people know about Skibunny from the legendary weekly parties they ran in Belfast (Skibunny has built a following among Belfasts hipsters. Recommended: NME; The groundbreaking and downright charismatic Skibunny: BBC RADIO 1; Edgy and optimistic: THE LIST; It's the best place to go out in Northern Ireland: ACROSS THE LINE, BBC RADIO ULSTER). Some people went to many of the amazing gigs Skibunny promoted (The Go! Team, Sparklehorse, Guided By Voices, MakeUp, James Yuill…). You may even have one of their mix CDs, which after being played by Radio1’s Rob Da Bank (“Absolutely wicked!”) took the Skibunny DJs to places like Tokyo, Osaka, New York, Austin, Prague, as well as festivals like Glastonbury, T in The Park, Rockness and Bestival. Perhaps you’ve come across one of their many remixes –including Paloma Faith (Epic), Tilly & The Wall (Moshi Moshi), Dag For Dag (Saddle Creek), ASIWYFA (Smalltown America). Let’s face it, it was only a matter of time before they became a band…SKIBUNNY is TANYA Mellotte (vocals, guitar, keys) and MARK Gordon (vocals, bass, guitar, keys). With one eye on tunes and one on the dance floor, “Hugs” is 40 minutes of bittersweet electronic guitar-pop beating with an uplifting heart, sitting somewhere between NEW ORDER, GOLDFRAPP and THE CURE, ranging from the washed-out bliss of Aah Ooh to the crunching stomp of recent EP lead track Walk Don't Walk, and including a re-imagining of the Afghan Whigs track Milez iz Ded. The album’s central theme is about wanting more than your lot, about taking risks in life and love, and if it doesn’t work out? You pick yourself up, dust yourself down and do it all over again, but this time a little bit better. Hugs also features guest vocals by MAPS and Kaori Tsuchida from THE GO! TEAM. Skibunny will be touring Hugs across the UK this autumn beginning with Bestival on Sep 11th. The Sound-Bites: “Belfast's no.1 remixers, promoters and commotion causers... they do something pretty special to the crowd” NME  //  “The groundbreaking and downright charismatic Skibunny” BBC RADIO 1  //  “Promoters, remixers, dj and a mighty fine band. They make a kind of disco-shoegaze sound, exuberant and exploding into feisty tunes that sound good” Huw Stephens  //  Fine, top-drawer crunchy electro-rock with big choruses which shout in your ear about a party going on in a house six streets away. The Irish Times //  Absolutely wicked : ROB DA BANK Radio 1 //  “Think of the band as the lovechild of a more egalitarian Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Dntel and you're halfway there: a real fusion of throwaway indie rock and electronic” BBC Radio Ulster  //  “Delicate insanely catchy pop that will kick into your memory banks and not shift, in the same way that bloody whistling song by those swedes, peter bjorn and john did, though thankfully, this song is lot more enjoyable” PLAYLOUDER  //  A piece of very accomplished DJ-inspired atmospheric pop” SOUNDLAB   //  “It's a good 'un. A sort of Daft Punk-lite affair, it's a playful, gentle, sparkly and spacey number that's one of those rare dance songs that would work equally well as a euphoric floorfiller or a blissful chillout number” HOTPRESS  //  “Floating comfortably somewhere between The Orb and Four Tet, Skibunny’s ‘Aah Ooh’ hovers with an air of contentment upon a cloud of euphoria” GIGWISE.

Tracklisting:

1. Aah Ooh 2. Up Down 3. Walk, Don’t Walk 4. Remember Me (feat. James Chapman) 5. Sun Sun Sun 6. Remote Control 7. Miles iz Ded  8. All in this together (feat. Kaori Tsuchida) 9. Stand Up 10. Moving 11. Baby, Get into It

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