Teenage Kicks

A band on the run, raised on their parents' record collections.

BE ON MY(OUR) SIDE - ARTWORK AND SUCH

Greetings friends of the internet,

After having been recorded twice, going through a few mixers, partially losing my mind, partially losing my voice, and then returning to our original mixer to finish the EP I can actually say (which is rare) that I’m happy to announce the details of our soon to be released EP, Be On My Side. It was produced/recorded by yours truly with the drums being engineered/recorded by Dan Weston at Phase One. Dan (Attack In Black, Shad, Paper Lions) also mixed tracks 1,3,4,5,6, while track 2 was mixed by Mike Fraser (AC/DC, Sam Roberts). I think it sounds like our band sounds, that might seem like a silly statement to make, but hopefully you’ll know what I mean when you hear it. Ultimately, no Teenage Kicks project would be complete without a few re-records and a couple of borderline nervous breakdowns. That’s why they pay me the big bucks. 

The tracklisting is as follows;

1. Setting Son
2. I Get What You Give
3. Middle of the Night
4. And Everybody Knows It
5. Shook Our Bones
6. You Shall Not Want 

Some of you might be asking yourselves why we recorded the 7 Inch again, and to you I say this… we recorded four songs as Ulysses and the Siren prior to Christian quitting that band, two of those songs were released as the first recordings from Teenage Kicks (you’ve been punk’d?). Cam had only been in the band for a month at the time, and I mixed/recorded everything while recovering from two hernia surgeries. I wanted to do the songs again as our band actually plays them, consider it our version of Piebald’s American Hearts. Also, why do I always feel the need to explain myself to the internet? And, why am I posing a question to no one?

Be On My Side comes out Friday, March 2nd and will be joyously celebrated that night with a release show at The Horseshoe (we’ll announce the line-up midweek). The first single goes up on Wednesday, February 1st along with the sign-up for our new Singles Club.

As an added treat here’s a video of us performing “I Get What You Give” LOTF for the short documentary Patrick and our friend Sean Foreman are making. 

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