When you listen to Dappled Cities you actually see things. Vivid
colours, strange animals, story-book characters.

It’s as if a world that you didn’t know existed, and all it’s
possibilities, is now within your grasp. Dappled Cities can take you
there, as one respected reviewer put it, After 2 years of ludicrously intense international touring and
songwriting, Dappled Cities prepare for the release of their 3rd
album, the art pop opus, Zounds. The work is the highest achievement
of a ten year career traced back from their current home on US indie
label Dangerbird Records (also home of Silversun Pickups, Sea Wolf and
Darker My Love) to the teenagers first playing music together in their
Australian childhood suburbs.

The band, originally called Periwinkle, formed in 1997 when 15
year-olds David Rennick and Hugh Boyce were joined by Alex Moore and
English born Tim Derricourt. Their first album, A Smile (released in
2004 under the new moniker - Dappled Cities Fly), was a home-recorded,
independent hit in Australia, and its tracks were later remixed as A
Crooked Smile EP by the likes of an emerging Wolfmother and Spod.

The band’s sophomore effort Granddance was a grandiose record full
of oldeworld ideas and cutting-edge sonics (& their first platter on
the Dangerbird label), which was uncoiled to mass acclaim in 2006. The
following two years were spent touring the US with the likes of The
Fratellis and Tokyo Police Club, with fiery forays home riding shotgun
to Silverchair, Modest Mouse and LCD Soundsystem.

Not many Australian bands attempt to face the US beast as head-on as
Dappled Cities over this period, and almost inevitably the band
experienced their first line-up change in a decade. Founding member
Hugh Boyce retired and was replaced by Allan Kumpulainen on drums,
while touring keyboardist Ned Cooke was instated as a full-time
member.

Having broken every hygiene law New York holds dear and come to know
each other better than they dared, Dappled Cities are now home and
ready to unveil the wall of Zounds.