Not Yet Dead!

cta_040513_320s We are not yet dead, though it sometimes looks like it.

We are in fact very busy writing our second album, recording B-sides for our new single ‘While I Was Sleeping’ (details to follow)* and even playing the very odd not-cancelled gig.

As evidence, I submit to you this review of Curators’s's very recent album launch which what we did went and played at (by superfan Manic Pop Thrills): here.

Thanks to Curators for having us, we thoroughly enjoyed ourselves. xxx

There’s pictures here: yes, here. Thanks to MPT for the flattering angles.

OTHER THINGS SOON I PROMISE.

* Not right now!

CTA New Year Info Dump

Hello,

How’re you? We’re fine thank you.

It’s been a while, got some admin to take care of, we’ve been very lax. Here’s a big long list of links to stuff.

SO, we released our album on the 17th of September last year.

Here’s some reviews of it:

The Herald, The List, Undersong, Peenko, Manic Pop Thrills, 17 Seconds, Scottish Fiction, Tremendous Music Taste, When You Motor Away, Dauphin, GlasGOwest and Brit Rock Army

I might have missed some… but you get the gist. Thanks to everyone who was interested enough to put fingers to keyboard and review it!

Some people also wrote nice things about us and the album that weren’t reviews, we talked about it to some people as well:

This is Fake DIY, Peenko, 17 Seconds, Manic Pop Thrills, The Tidal Wave Of Indifference, Is This Music?, Dingus and Killing Moon

Then we played our belated album launch gig with the marvellous Letters and Shooting Stansfield. Here’s a couple of reviews of the gig from Undersong and Manic Pop Thrills

Thanks to everyone who came along to that! Massive thanks to JP and Joe and everyone at the Electric Circus for being tremendous. Super massive thanks to Evelyn for making such amazing cupcakes.

Lastly! The year ended and some people said some nice things about us and our album.

Mr Alan Morrison at The Herald placed Animal Love Match at number forty one in his list of the best 50 Scottish Albums of the year.

Here’s a photo of it in the actual paper.

Lastly, the splendid Mike Manic Pop Thrills named us as his second favourite album of the year, his second favourite live band of the year (To be fair, the former Bad Books and now Book Group are ruddy marvellous.) and Intervention was his 3rd favourite single of the year. He seems to like us.

He’s probably our blogger of the year. Thanks Mike!

THANKS EVERYONE.

Album launch update

Hello!

Cancel The Astronauts here with a quick reminder/the stunning news that our much delayed album launch party is happening on Friday 30th November in Edinburgh, at The Electric Circus. You should come along. It’ll be ace.

We’ll have sets from the brilliant Letters and the fabulous Shooting Stansfield, the mighty Kid Canaveral will be DJing, we’ll do some songs, Matt will do some dancing, and there might even be cakes*.

Advance tickets are available at ticketweb (here) and seetickets (here), and also from real people at Ripping Records (South Bridge) and Tickets Scotland (Rose Street), though you should be able to pay on the door.

You’ll be able to buy our album at the gig, of course, but equipping yourself with a copy beforehand for super-make-better-singing-along is actively encouraged. Buy direct! from us (here) indirectly the usual internet downloady suspects, or from your favourite among the following lovely, discerning, supportive and in-need-of-support independent music retailers:

Scotland

Apollo (Paisley)

Avalanche(Edinburgh)

Barnstorm, (Dumfries)

Grooves Records (Kirkwall)

Imperial Music (Inverness)

Love Music (Glasgow)

One Up Music (Aberdeen)

Unknown Pleasures (Edinburgh)

England

Action Records (Preston)

Crash Records (Leeds)

Drift (Totnes)

Jam (Falmouth)

Piccadilly (Manchester)

Rockaboom (Leicester)

Resident (Brighton)

RPM (Newcastle)

Sound It Out Records (Stockton on Tees)

Sister Ray Records (London)

Truck Music Store (Oxford)

Wales

Spillers Records (Cardiff)

Tangled Parrot (Carmarthen)

Thanks for your time! Hope to see you all on the 30^th!

Lots of love,

Cancel The Astronauts

Praise for Animal Love Match:

A fantastic album. And all the more impressive as a debut. 17 Seconds

An excellent record that should be in your Scottish music collection. GlasGOwest

A terrific pop album which illustrates just how many great songs these guys have to burn. Manic Pop Thrills

It would take a hard heart indeed to not find something to savour in guitar pop as brilliantly executed as this. This Is Fake DIY

The best Scottish album so far this year, and definitely one of the greatest albums by anyone in 2012. (9/10 Undersong)

A stirring debut album. (**** The List)

Lyrical shadows linger over the bright corners of hook-laden tunes, adding quirky depth to an infectious set of songs that trip over each other in their giddy haste to sprint out from the starting blocks. The Herald

*No promises.