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Tigers That Talked are a quartet hailing from assorted corners of the UK and Europe but currently making their beautiful and original music in Leeds, gravitating towards the city’s current artistic and creative renaissance. The band have released a number of self-produced DIY EPs, available to fans at gigs and through their MySpace, and are now set for their first album release on Bad Sneakers.
The band was formed by singer-songwriter and guitarist Jamie Williams in 2006, and quickly drew around him the current line up of bassist Owain Kelly, half-Norwegian violinist Glenna Larsen, and drummer and percussionist Chris Verney.
The band create a multi-layered, intensely beautiful music that can be in turns euphoric, rousing and haunting. Focused around Jamie’s vocals and Glenna’s effect-adorned violin, and coupled with the band’s frenzied live energy, Tigers That Talked create a music that, as one critic has said, sounds “vaguely of a piece with recent bands but not really immediately fitting in as The Next... anyone. There's hints of the Cure, Arcade Fire, Elbow and Ryan Adams.….”, and others have suggested is influenced as much by the filmic elegance of Ennio Morricone as the ramshackle folk rock of The Arcade Fire. In the process they combine pop hooks infectious enough to snag the mainstream with the laconic romanticism of folk, and create a genuinely fresh British sound in the process.
The band have been busy recording their debut album for release on Bad Sneakers in Summer 2009. Their first single is 23 Fears was Steve Lamacq's record of the week and recieved lots of plays from other influential DJ's such as Radio 1's Zane Lowe & Colin Murray and XFM's Jon Kennedy & John Hillcock.
Praise For Tigers That Talked
“They have a real zealous appeal about them […] breathtakingly brilliant stuff” – The Beat Surrender
“Tigers That Talked will engage the ear drums, heighten the senses and provoke the cranium [...] A band overflowing with raw talent and natural creative flair; their songs are flawless and beautiful, with an impeccable lyrical ability and violins that take your breath away. Their whole sound has a spine-tingling uniqueness and breadth to it […] they truly are something very special” – Noize Makes Enemies
Praise for ‘Black Heart, Blue Eyes’
“A rousing, tempo-changing and extremely busy offering that fully demonstrates the breadth of their skill […] a fearless recording that grabs your attention and refuses to let go” – IndieLondon 4/5
“This is by far the best debut I’ve heard since the beginning of 2009, and I’ll be truly surprised if the Tigers aren’t the talk of the town by year’s end” – Noize Makes Enemies 10/10
“A beautiful effort that has a definite vulnerability to it” – The Beat Surrender
“If the Arcade Fire lived in a seaside town on the English Riviera, this is how they’d sound. Like The Smiths wrapped in a cuddly warm blanket of happy-place” - Subba Cultcha E.P. of the Month.
“A very British, very polished sound, mellow at the offset but building nicely into an enthusiastic and charming offering […] Watch out for their debut album, judging by the quality of the EP, you won’t want to miss it” – This is Fake DIY 8/10
Praise for ‘23 Fears’
“Starkly thrilling […] resonates with timeless bands like The Cure or The Smiths. Tigers That Talked make 23 Fears a timeless track of their own” - The 4 oh 5
“23 Fears specialises in that kind of close, claustrophobic verse which suddenly explodes into a big wide open road of a chorus. The rhythm section really makes itself heard on this track – the drums hammering out a call to arms and nice little bass riff driving things along in the choruses” - Tasty Fanzine
“Imagine Arcade Fire playing Maccabees songs whilst a marching band gathers behind before the whole world chants along - impressive huh?” - Subba-Cultcha
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i see that you're playing the packhorse on the 27th.. you should come to our night at nation of shopkeepers after (it's freeeeeeeee and it's called tiger trap, i mean, what more apt name could a night actually have?). i would go and see you guys but i've already got a ticket to see les savy fav :(
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