Silkies #3 - Walk at Midnight

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Hi June, it's nice to have you here. Please can we have a prolonged period of nice weather now please. A couple of quick posts today, I'm out for the day seeing as much sunshine as I can...

To help you get in the mood for our impending summer (all fingers crossed) here's a wonderful blast of short, sharp rock & roll from the Boston based duo Silkies.

I've talked about their effortless blend of scuzzy garage and 60's pop a couple of times here already and this track, "Walk at Midnight", the first to be taken from a forthcoming EP is exactly that. The melody is clearer than ever before and the ringing guitars waltzing with racing beats will be sure to have you up dancing before it's fleeting duration is out. Just ace.

Silkies #2 - It Hurts to be Sixteen

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Silkies featured here with their debut track "Like One" back in September, that track later became the lead track to the bands debut release, a three track cassette released via Brighton based indie Heart Throb Records, now the band have treated you - I own it already - to a free download of the bonus track from the tape, a cover of Andrea Carroll's 60's doo-wop song "It Hurts to be Sixteen".

Bursting out of the gates with fast-paced youthful exuberance the track combines the raucous garage-scuzz that defined the duos early recordings with the original's classic girl group vocal harmonies, the result is breathless and instant, get your groove with a click on the download button below.

Silkies - New Music "Introducing"

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I'm not sure if I've ever posted two bands that are basically the same people back-to-back before, after the exquisitely soft Mini Dresses comes Silkies, where the former's day-dreamy pop is replaced by raucous, scuzzy garage rock perfection. Lira Mondal and Caufield Schnug are Silkies (and half of Mini Dresses) and their only track so far, "Like One" has already received praise from a few (primarily UK based) blogs with MFM and CITR both picking up on it early last month...

It's easy to see why, with a fast and unkempt melody "Like One" is unadulterated good time fun, seemingly (and probably) written in half an hour or so, its simple, breathless and effective. I'll try not to get too excited (there's just one Silkies track to go on so far) but fellow fans of fuzzed up, girl pop beware, "Like One" is going to hit you like a thunderbolt and have you running all the way to the nearest dance-floor...