RAVES IN BLACK BOOK, PASTE, AV CLUB, ETC. FOR NEW ALBUM ‘MY WORLD WAS MADE FOR YOU’
Alongside Courtney Barnett, Scott & Charlene's Wedding, Twerps, Lost
Animal, and The Stevens, the Icypoles are an Australian indie invasion.
The new album ‘My World Was Made For You,’ featuring covers of David
Lynch’s “Just You” (from Twin Peaks) and Martika’s “Love, Thy Will Be
Done,” co-written by Prince, is out now on Highline Records. Black Book
is streaming the entire album.
Here’s what we’ve been reading about the Icypoles:
“7.7… a little dreamy… understated intimacy.”
- Eric Danton, Paste Magazine, May 15, 2014
“Sounds a bit like the XX merged together with some old doo-wop style girl groups.”
- Marah Eakin, AV Club, April 16, 2014
“A sweet treat [with] a sinister vibe… Led by Isobel Knowles, formerly
of Architecture In Helsinki, the Melbourne quartet serves up
retro-flavored tunes in the vein of the Brunettes, Soko, and the Boy
Least Likely To.”
- Katie Chow, Black Book, May 1, 2014
“Delicious… Severely cool… The magic is in their surprising sense of
melodic timing and coy delivery that plays out in our heads like a Mona
Lisa smirk set to some kind of sarcastic retro choreography.”
- Charity Painter, The Wild Honey Pie, April 18, 2014
“Reminiscent of The Blow, with handclaps, singsong vocals and a slightly jagged, funky bassline.”
- Lizzie Plaugic, CMJ, May 6, 2014
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Melbourne's Icypoles (Ex-Architecture In Helsinki) Ready US Indie Pop Debut
'My World Was Made For You' (May 6
/ Highline Records) is the debut album from The Icypoles, four gals who
call Melbourne home but would just as easily fit into a Bande à Part
dance scene or be happily serving cherry pie at Twin Peaks' Double R
Diner.*
Produced by Haima Marriott (Architecture in Helsinki), My World Was Made For You is a collection of thirteen taut tunes to take you through a lover's landscape of playful celebrations, pensive reflections and dreamy feelings.
With heart bedazzled on sleeve, The Icypoles revel in the fun and fertile relationship zone bookended by flirting and commitment: "Staying Home" laments a smitten crushee's love-drunk inability to leave the house, whereas "Settle Down" sobers things up somewhat and provides the pragmatic ultimatum, "Our lives together will have to wait for the right time." "Babies" goes one step further, pondering the cycle of life, and may well be the most startlingly earnest thing to happen to pop music since The Shaggs hatched their Philosophy of the World.
Having become a familiar fixture on Melbourne's inner-north stages, and with two previous releases (2009's Getting Ready cassette and 2011's Promise to Stay 7" EP), The Icypoles' musical adventures can be traced back to the early 00s, with half the band finding their formative footing playing horns in Architecture in Helsinki.
Eschewing that band's off-the-wall maximal approach, however, The Icypoles set raw sentiment to the most bare-boned of arrangements: clear, wistful female vocal harmonies give way to playfully crafted bass, guitar and percussion interplay, like if Phil Spector were stripped of his Wall of Sound and started producing Marine Girls 45s.
We hope you enjoy it as much as we do!
*Hell, they even conjure up a cover of the TV show's sultry ballad "Just You!"
Produced by Haima Marriott (Architecture in Helsinki), My World Was Made For You is a collection of thirteen taut tunes to take you through a lover's landscape of playful celebrations, pensive reflections and dreamy feelings.
With heart bedazzled on sleeve, The Icypoles revel in the fun and fertile relationship zone bookended by flirting and commitment: "Staying Home" laments a smitten crushee's love-drunk inability to leave the house, whereas "Settle Down" sobers things up somewhat and provides the pragmatic ultimatum, "Our lives together will have to wait for the right time." "Babies" goes one step further, pondering the cycle of life, and may well be the most startlingly earnest thing to happen to pop music since The Shaggs hatched their Philosophy of the World.
Having become a familiar fixture on Melbourne's inner-north stages, and with two previous releases (2009's Getting Ready cassette and 2011's Promise to Stay 7" EP), The Icypoles' musical adventures can be traced back to the early 00s, with half the band finding their formative footing playing horns in Architecture in Helsinki.
Eschewing that band's off-the-wall maximal approach, however, The Icypoles set raw sentiment to the most bare-boned of arrangements: clear, wistful female vocal harmonies give way to playfully crafted bass, guitar and percussion interplay, like if Phil Spector were stripped of his Wall of Sound and started producing Marine Girls 45s.
We hope you enjoy it as much as we do!
*Hell, they even conjure up a cover of the TV show's sultry ballad "Just You!"
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