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We’ve talked (and talked) about Tigercity before but….Pretty soon, whether you like it or not, they’ll get big and you and your everyone will be dancing to this. The Brooklyn quartet will release their as-yet-untitled debut album in the coming months and if you think you have apt words like “yacht” and “frothy” lying around to describe their sound, think again.
It’s big, it’s sexy and it’s big sexy.
Here is one of the brand spanking new songs from their (at least by us) very eagerly awaited LP to get you going:

We sat down with them for a few questions and listens before their DC9 show tonight.
Dig:

You guys were in a bunch of bands before Tigercity. Were they more or less sonically similar to your current sound or were you busting out skronky no-wave shit?

I don’t think any of our previous bands sounded anything like Tigercity.  Joel was in a band called The Debras that sounded kind of like an awesome new version of Suicide.  I was in a band called Bears that started out super psychedelic and ended up sounding like Fugazi.  Andrew was in whole bunch of different jazz, fusion, and Chilean metal bands. And Aynsley played like African horse skulls and bongos or something.  

To be perfectly honest, I started listening to you because your EP art was of majestic, white stallions marching through the ocean. Please tell me you visualized that image and had it commissioned.

That was a photo that Joel took when he was at Ibiza a couple years ago.

Nice. Lets take a moment and listen to the EP now which you guys won us over with a while back
Cool.

Other Girls

I originally started writing this song for our friend’s band Stylofone, and then was like hmmmm….gonna keep this for us. Other Girls was our attempt to write an upbeat pop rock song about NYC living and girlfriend / relationship insanity.

Red Lips

The core sound of Red Lips definitely comes from out our love for Roxy Music and David Bowie. We recorded this one for the Shout It Out Loud music / HARP Magazine compilation released in February ‘08.

Powerstripe

This one is the hardest for me to play live but I love it. It has the breathy vocals and synth sounds of Prefab Sprout and Scritti Politti which we totally sweat. Tigercity loves dance music; specifically 70’s and 80’s disco. CHIC>>>>>

Are You Sensation

Definitely our most obviously “dancey” song. Its all vintage synth bass and blinging keyboard parts. We usually end our shows with this track. Dance party!

So, You guys just finished a new full-length and remained unsigned. Any plans to go with a label or are you just gonna do everything yourselves?
We’re still working on a good answer to that question.  We’ll see if it makes more sense to go with a label or do it ourselves.

What advantages and disadvantages have you found for a band like yours in the current state of the music industry?

The main advantage to doing anything yourself is always that you have compete artistic control.  I mean, there’s no douchey label guy saying, “You guys are totally yacht rock! Now wear white suites, drink giant martinis, and call everyone baby!” The disadvantage of doing it on your own is that you don’t have cash from a label to help back you up.  You’ve got to cover everything yourselves. But, with the way things are right now, there’s no guarantee that singing with a label will totally help.  With everything so shaky, you could sign an awesome deal have the whole thing fall apart the next day.  That being said, if we were offered the perfect deal, we probably wouldn’t say no.

Do you guys have day jobs? What do you do when you’re not melting faces nightly?

When we’re back in New York, we all have to do odd jobs to help us stay alive.  Temping, catering, PA’ing… That kind of stuff.  But I know that when I’m temping, I’m still melting faces.  My phone answering voice is incredibly sexual. 

The new album has 11 new songs that I’ve never heard before. Tell me all about them and how they sound and why they’re great.

All of them are awesome.  We worked with a new producer on this record, named Chuck Brody.  We had access to a ton of awesome vintage keyboards and other gear.  And we focused on expanding our sound a bit — it’s darker, a little heavier, with a more varied style than just dance stuff.  You can still dance to most of it though.

Awesome, and lets listen to another new song:
Cool

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+ catch them live and happening tonight @ DC9

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