I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: I love it when bands know how to market themselves. I love it when bands understand the power of the world wide web. And I especially love it when they have fun while doing it all. With their upcoming Massive Release show to celebrate the release of their new EP, Songs For Staying In, Austin-based Quiet Company is a band that will put a smile of most of your faces in one way or another.
The first time I ran across Quiet Company was during my NX35 countdown project. I had listened to their album, Everyone You Love With Be Happy Soon, and their “carefree, light-hearted, and fun” tunes provided the perfect soundtrack to those first few inklings of spring we had at the end of February. Well, they have crafted six new songs just in time to provide the perfect soundtrack for summer. Especially for you young lovers out there.
Songs For Staying In is exactly what their album title combined with their album cover implies. Love songs set to the great, catchy pop-rock hooks Quiet Company is known for. The first track, “How Do You Do It?” is saccharine goodness. As I walked to worked to work today, I started out a sleepy zombie. Within the track’s five minutes, I found myself walking in step and bobbing my head to its fanfare chorus. “Things You Already Know” continues the “upbeatness” before the EP slows down to the beautiful, simple track, “Hold My Head Above the Water”. Incidentally, this song is led by frontman Taylor Muse’s wife, Leah. What’s more lovey dovey than that? Definitely not the next track, “Jezebel” which is also titled, “A Song About My Friend and that Whore He Dated”! The song still manages to fit within the theme of the album though as it closes out with its outcry of, “Come back to me!” The album closes with “If You Want” and “The Biblical Sense of the Word” which solidly seals this EP as one of the best albums to listen to this summer.
Aside from their sunshiny tunes, Quiet Company are also fun as they’ve been really building up their upcoming Massive Release show. They’ve held a video contest, released videos of their own each week on their site, and have worked hard to make sure their fans have as much fun with their music as they do. Not many bands are as quite as charming as these fellows, and personally, hard work and personality do factor into my appreciation for a band’s music (just as rude, sloppy work factors into my dislike into otherwise talented bands!)
Austinites, join Quiet Company for their Massive Release show with Stereo is a Lie, Murdocks, The Eastern Sea, The Rocketboys, and The Black and White Years this Friday night at Encore. For ten bucks, it’s a steal, folks.
- RSVP for the Massive Release show here: http://www.quietcompanymusic.com/tickets
- Pre-order Songs for Staying In and download the album now before it releases on May 11: http://www.quietcompanymusic.com
- Stream for free their full-length album, Everyone You Love Will Be Happy Soon: http://quietcompany.bandcamp.com
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