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City [EP]

by The Double Happiness

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Stalker 03:54
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Nanna 03:35
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Tall Buildings 04:36
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Double Happiness (I Want My) 04:14
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Taking A Dive 03:07
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The Double Happiness is two couples on the longest double date ever! Sharing a love of the city and its Milo-coloured river reaches, they have created a record that draws on their collective experiences of growing up and living in Brisbane.

Having formed only 2 years ago, the quartet have been writing, recording and playing shows with a view to releasing a triptych of themed EPs in 2018. The first of these being ‘City’, a record that is washed in a tsunami of reverb, urgent drums and hauntingly sweet vocal harmonies.

With a strong call back to the pioneers of post-punk and early surf rock, listeners will love the sprinkling of Joy Division, Sonic Youth, The Shadows and The Go-Betweens as well as the nod to the early 90's Flying Nun sounds.

"The EP explores the motifs of living in the shadows of tall buildings whilst being surrounded by strangers, awkward family moments and we also have an ode to Ping Pong!” explains vocalist and guitarist, Kristin Fergusson.

'City' attracts the lost, the lonely and the brave. A reverb-guitar-driven journey of a young seeker that builds to a dramatic climax via the spooky side-streets of a sleeping city.

The Double Happiness recommend popping the tape in a Datsun 180B with the windows down and driving up to Kangaroo Point at dusk for the ultimate City experience.

credits

released March 14, 2018

Kristin (Black) Fergusson - guitar, vocals
Peter Fergusson - guitar, vocals
Meg Welchman - bass, vocals
Simon Welchman - drums

Produced, Recorded, Mixed and Mastered by Peter Fergusson
Drum set up by Charles Dugan
With production advice from Kieran Fergusson



Originally released by Valley Heat Records

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The Double Happiness Brisbane, Australia

The Double Happiness ride high on their steeds through waves of their self-coined "surfgaze" sound - a compelling mix of surf, spaghetti-western, post-punk and shoegaze. The foursome create sonic earworms about beaches, ping pong, cities, existentialism, miscommunication, oysters and more.‍ ... more

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