Swedish indie-poppers Sad Day For Puppets return on 16th November, with a double A-side single and a UK tour supporting A Place To Bury Strangers. ‘When You Tell Me That You Love Me’/ 'Withering Petals And Dust’ are brand new re-recordings of two tracks from their acclaimed debut album ‘Unknown Colors’. The single will be available as a limited edition seven-inch and download on Sonic Cathedral, full details of live dates are below.
We’ve learned a lot about the Puppets since we first came across them and released their single ‘Marble Gods’ – a former 6Music record of the week and included on the forthcoming ‘Rough Trade Shops Indie-Pop 09’ compilation – back in March. For instance Blackeberg, the Stockholm satellite town they hail from, is the setting for the creepy vampire book and film ‘Let The Right One In’. Their unusual band name comes not from a Swedish kids’ TV show as they claimed, but from an episode of ‘The West Wing’, which explains the amount of news stories about goings on in Congress that our Google Alert throws up. Perhaps most importantly, they’re not the daisy-chain-making, cardigan-wearing titans of twee we thought they were – it turns out that songwriter Martin Källholm is more inspired by the no-nonsense rock of Cheap Trick, Thin Lizzy, Kiss and Aerosmith (and we’re not even talking early Toxic Twins-era, either, but ‘Pump’).
Appropriately, then, these two tracks – both of which turned up on ‘Unknown Colors’ as acoustic, countrified ballads – display the Puppets’ newfound tendency to rock, turning these unlikely influences into something melodic, melancholy and masterful. We’re not quite sure how they do it, but our money is on lead guitarist Marcus Sandgren acting like a J Mascis filter: regardless of what goes in, it always comes out sounding – brilliantly – like Dinosaur Jr playing The Primitives, with singer Anna Eklund as a Scandinavian take on Tracy Tracy; not for nothing is Dinosaur’s reunion album ‘Beyond’ Marcus’ favourite of the last 10 years.
Sad Day For Puppets return to the UK in November for a live session on Marc Riley’s 6Music show on Thursday, November 12. They then play the following dates:
Friday, November 13 – London, Buffalo Bar (Twee As F**k)
Saturday, November 14 – Manchester, Moho Live (with A Place To Bury Strangers)
Sunday, November 15 – Leeds, The Cockpit (with A Place To Bury Strangers)
Monday, November 16 – London, The Borderline (Sonic Cathedral with Darker My Love)
Tuesday, November 17 – Cambridge, The Portland Arms (with A Place To Bury Strangers)
Wednesday, November 18 – London, Relentless Garage (with A Place To Bury Strangers)
Sad Day For Puppets Announce New Single + November UK tour
Sad Day For PUPPETS on MySpace Music - Free Streaming MP3s, Pictures & Music Downloads
We’ve learned a lot about the Puppets since we first came across them and released their single ‘Marble Gods’ – a former 6Music record of the week and included on the forthcoming ‘Rough Trade Shops Indie-Pop 09’ compilation – back in March. For instance Blackeberg, the Stockholm satellite town they hail from, is the setting for the creepy vampire book and film ‘Let The Right One In’. Their unusual band name comes not from a Swedish kids’ TV show as they claimed, but from an episode of ‘The West Wing’, which explains the amount of news stories about goings on in Congress that our Google Alert throws up. Perhaps most importantly, they’re not the daisy-chain-making, cardigan-wearing titans of twee we thought they were – it turns out that songwriter Martin Källholm is more inspired by the no-nonsense rock of Cheap Trick, Thin Lizzy, Kiss and Aerosmith (and we’re not even talking early Toxic Twins-era, either, but ‘Pump’).
Appropriately, then, these two tracks – both of which turned up on ‘Unknown Colors’ as acoustic, countrified ballads – display the Puppets’ newfound tendency to rock, turning these unlikely influences into something melodic, melancholy and masterful. We’re not quite sure how they do it, but our money is on lead guitarist Marcus Sandgren acting like a J Mascis filter: regardless of what goes in, it always comes out sounding – brilliantly – like Dinosaur Jr playing The Primitives, with singer Anna Eklund as a Scandinavian take on Tracy Tracy; not for nothing is Dinosaur’s reunion album ‘Beyond’ Marcus’ favourite of the last 10 years.
Sad Day For Puppets return to the UK in November for a live session on Marc Riley’s 6Music show on Thursday, November 12. They then play the following dates:
Friday, November 13 – London, Buffalo Bar (Twee As F**k)
Saturday, November 14 – Manchester, Moho Live (with A Place To Bury Strangers)
Sunday, November 15 – Leeds, The Cockpit (with A Place To Bury Strangers)
Monday, November 16 – London, The Borderline (Sonic Cathedral with Darker My Love)
Tuesday, November 17 – Cambridge, The Portland Arms (with A Place To Bury Strangers)
Wednesday, November 18 – London, Relentless Garage (with A Place To Bury Strangers)
Sad Day For Puppets Announce New Single + November UK tour
Sad Day For PUPPETS on MySpace Music - Free Streaming MP3s, Pictures & Music Downloads
