Eat More Cake Unveil Details Of New Double EP 'Climb The Ladder-Live The Dream'
Monday, 19 September 2011
Written by Jon Stickler
Eat More Cake are songwriter/producers Andy Briggs and Matt Pearn. Together they’ve created ‘Climb The Ladder, Live The Dream,' released today, a genre-crossing double-EP – part classic down-tempo, part electronica – complete with massive melodies, café del mar guitars and hip-hop beats.
Highlights include EP1’s soulful opener ‘You’ll Be There,’ the 90s laidback trip-hop of new single ‘Smoke & Mirrors,’ and the lushly string-led (courtesy of the Bulgarian Symphony Orchestra) ‘Story of My Life.’ EP2’s Massive Attack like ‘Glass Houses’ ponders the evolution of man (no less) over some dubsteppy bass and impressive electric guitars, and ‘Music Box’ is a call to arms to a disengaged generation - “Told yourself you’d never do what they do – thought you’d change the world, but the world changed you.”
Check out the video for lead single 'Smoke & Mirrors', released 26th September, below.
Eat More Cake, whose influences include Groove Armada, Massive Attack, Portishead and The Streets, formed in Harrow, North West London, in 2007. Songwriters Andy Briggs and Matt Pearn soon recruited a turntablist and drummer, and with a few guest vocalists on board, began writing what would later become ‘Climb The Ladder, Live The Dream,’ all the while, cutting their teeth on the London live circuit. Based on the band’s creative output of the last few years, along with tracks written as recently as late 2010, the double-EP was completed at the beginning of this year, and recorded using live instrumentation at Eastcote Studios, London by UK producer Richard Kayvan.
Fast forward to 2011 and the band have already won fans at the likes Radio 1, 6Music, KISS and XFM and have appeared on Hed Kandi compilations ‘The Mix’ (UK) and ‘Serve Chilled’ (US). They’ve remixed the likes of David E Sugar, One eskimO, Avatars, and The Milk, and been ‘most hyped’ on Hype M with the Stardust classic ‘Music Sounds Better With You’ and Bob Marley’s ‘Is This Love’.
On stage, they’re known for their roof-raising parties, with gigs already in the bag at FIV Festival in Spain, Glade, Proud Camden, The ICA, Hatfield Forum, Camden Barfly, 93 Feet East, Hoxton Bar & Kitchen and Hamswell Festival.
Look out for a host of live London supports towards the end of the year.
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