NEW MUSIC: Eat More Cake – Climb The Ladder, Live The Dream EP2
We had EP1 from Eat More Cake yesterday, so here’s EP2.
Yesterday, I grumbled about the vocals but today, on depressed-about-the-state-of-the-world opener Glass Houses they work really well in a guitar driven trip hop tune. Has To Be Done buzzes along pleasantly but is really only an interlude before another angry state-of-the-world track Music Box which will either come across as passionate or hopelessly naieve. Either way, it’s hard to ignore. I like its heart on the sleeve approach. The EP ends with Matt’s Ibiza Tune (which they used as part of a mash-up back at the start of this year) which thankfully is a gentle Balearic comedown from the anger earlier in the EP. This EP2 easily exceeds EP1.
Blurb: Eat More Cake are songwriter/producers Andy Briggs and Matt Pearn. Together they’ve created ‘Climb The Ladder, Live The Dream,’ a genre-crossing double-EP – part classic down-tempo, part electronica – complete with massive melodies, café del mar guitars and hip-hop beats. Highlights include EP1’s soulful opener ‘You’ll Be There,’ the 90s laidback trip-hop of new single ‘Smoke & Mirrors,’ and the lushly string-led (courtesy of the Bulgarian Symphony Orchestra) ‘Story of My Life.’ EP2’s Massive Attack like ‘Glass Houses’ ponders the evolution of man (no less) over some dubsteppy bass and impressive electric guitars, and ‘Music Box’ is a call to arms to a disengaged generation – “Told yourself you’d never do what they do – thought you’d change the world, but the world changed you.” Eat More Cake, whose influences include Groove Armada, Massive Attack, Portishead and The Streets, formed in Harrow, North West London, in 2007. Songwriters Andy Briggs and Matt Pearn soon recruited a turntablist and drummer, and with a few guest vocalists on board, began writing what would later become ‘Climb The Ladder, Live The Dream,’ all the while, cutting their teeth on the London live circuit. Based on the band’s creative output of the last few years, along with tracks written as recently as late 2010, the double-EP was completed at the beginning of this year, and recorded using live instrumentation at Eastcote Studios, London by UK producer Richard Kayvan.
Released by: APOPTO
Release date: Sep 19, 2011
