Artist Of The Week -- Pistol Youth (New Zealand)

The four-piece known as Pistol Youth is something of an international supergroup, comprised of New Zealanders Bradley Carter from Steriogram on vocals/guitar and drummer Gavin Kerr from Wash, along with Australian guitarist Michael Guy Chislett from The Academy Is and Swedish bassist Anders Borgh from The First Class Hitmen. Of course, as you can imagine, trying to schedule sessions around the recording and touring priorities of four separate acts proved well-nigh impossible…but undaunted (and helped in good part by 21st century technology), after talking about putting together an EP for over a year, the quartet pieced it all together without all four ever meeting in the same room.

Though they facetiously describe the resulting sound as “four trainwrecks all intertwined,” the self-released Smiling Can Backfire EP proved to be such a success that the foursome got together for the first time in a studio this past January in Los Angeles, with the goal of completing a full-length album. Their single, “When I Go Out,” is reminiscent of Weezer with a splash of more mainstream pop sensibilities.

Download: "When I Go Out"

1 comments:

Anonymous said...

hey guys, love the show... this band is really cool! thanks for the music!!