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From our partners at Neumos:
Little Green Cars
with The Horde and The Harem
April 8, 2013
8PM | $10 ADV | 21+
Neumos
925 E. Pike St., Seattle, WA, 98122
(206) 709-9467 | More info/tickets: www.neumos.com
Little Green Cars — a quintet of 20-year-olds with a habit of waxing deadly serious about their everexpanding ambitions — convened in 2008 in a bungalow in Stevie Appleby’s parents’ backyard for as ordinary a reason as any: as the frontman admits sheepishly, they wanted to win a battle of the bands competition.
With guitarist Adam O’Regan and bassist Donagh O’Leary friends since primary school, and the rest having met in secondary, the five rehearsed for the gig, at which they promptly lost out to another local band.
The defeat, however, was surprisingly fuel enough. It inspired them to work harder, to work through their remaining two years of school, during which they produced a massive catalog of demo recordings, blending acoustic and electronic, classical and punk, djembe drums and synth strings.
And like that, they dove in. For two years they redoubled their efforts, crafting a wide-eyed musical narrative that mirrored their evolution as an ensemble until, inevitably, label suitors began to knock. In 2011, they signed to Glassnote, where they’ve been quietly boiling down those demos into an album — the first they’ve ever recorded.
“The main thing I want to hear out of an artist I admire is the truth,” says Appleby. “How they really felt. If I’m going to say something, it may as well be the truth.”
The lengths to which Appleby, O’Rourke and the rest of the band will go to tell that truth have yet to reveal their depth, but a full-steam-ahead debut record is a good place to start: finally, five years’ worth of backyard Garage Band tracks have a name: Absolute Zero.
Absolute Zero’s 48 minutes, crafted in unabashed earnestness with the aid of seasoned epic-producer Markus Dravs (Mumford and Sons’ Sigh No More and Babel, Arcade Fire’s Neon Bible and The Suburbs, Coldplay’s Mylo Xyloto), act as a soul-bearing report, as guileless as the young quintet themselves, on the act of simply growing up: a process that requires, at once, so little and so much effort it could explode you from the inside at any moment.
Fresh off a whirlwind month of touring that included several CMJ showcases — ones that caught the attention of outlets like NPR and the New York Times — the band will be spending the next few months leading up to the release of their album preparing themselves for whatever comes next. Because once it drops, all they’ll be able to do is to keep their hands outstretched and wait patiently for listeners to reach back.
LITTLE GREEN CARS // littlegreencars.co.uk
THE HORDE AND THE HAREM // thehordeandtheharem.com
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