Dark Captain - Dead Legs And Alibi

East London quintet Dark Captain (formerly known as the twice as time consuming to say Dark Captain Light Captain) are shortly to release ‘Dead Legs & Alibis’. It’s the follow-up to their 2008 debut full-length ‘Miracle Kicker’, which
harvested critical praise across the board, and was voted 33rd best album of the year by UK newspaper The Guardian. The album also spawned a surprise hit stateside with ‘Jealous Enemies’ (made US iTunes single of the week by a very
kind Apple employee and receiving a humorously large number of downloads as a result), and catapulted the band all round Europe and the UK, where they gleefully played their songs to audiences frequently reported to be “impressed”,
sharing stages with the likes of Sophia, 65daysofstatic, Tunng and Laetita Sadier (Stereolab).

At some point last year, the band decided to disembark this joyously relentless carousel of budget flights, punctual soundchecks and questionable service station snack food, in order that another album may force its way into the world. ‘Dead Legs & Alibis’ is the shimmering, restless result of these endeavours. Existing devotees of the band’s brushing downtuned acoustic guitars, close vocal harmonies, electronic pulses and estuary-accented recriminations will no doubt
be desperately relieved that the claustrophobic, early-hours confessionals which characterised ‘Miracle Kicker’ are still present. This time, however, they’re pleasingly offset by the type of soaring, motorik full-band grooves which not only
mark ‘Dead Legs & Alibis’ as a more varied and organic proposition than its predecessor, but will also have those who stamped the band with the alt/psychfolk tag last time round staring aghast into the mirror, wondering what the hell
they were thinking.

We very much hope you enjoy ‘Dead Legs & Alibis’. Dark Captain will be playing shows in support of their new record during the autumn of 2011, and are currently writing and recording new material for yet another album, hopefully due
next year.

TRACKLISTING:

01 Three Years To Go  02 Submarines  03 Long Distance Driver  04 Right Way Round  05 Fade  06 Different & Easier
07 80,000 Reasons  08 Strange Journeys Home  09 Ex Detective  10 Flickering Light.

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