Fearless chief of Atlanta’s Britpop/surf-rock contingent for nearly 20 years, Gringo Star is about to launch its eighth album, Sweethearts, Might 2 through the Michigan-based Dizzybird label. The LP’s second single, “I Sleep To Dream,” finds the band rubbing elbows with the Kinks circa Face To Face.
“It’s a cautionary story about the advantages of no expectations,” says Gringo Star’s Nick Furgiuele.
Preliminary expectations had been excessive for Gringo Star. Furgiuele cofounded the group along with his brother, Pete, in 2007, after a touch profitable stint with alt-rockers A Fir-Ju Effectively. They rapidly earned a repute for an uncompromising strategy to stay efficiency that continues to this present day. Produced by Grammy winner Ben H. Allen III (Animal Collective, Kaiser Chiefs), their debut LP, All Y’all, was a favourite of critics in 2008. The group has solid forward by itself phrases ever since, touring the U.S. and Europe and sharing the stage with everybody from Cat Energy and Finest Coast to the Killers and the Zombies.
We’re proud to premiere Gringo Star’s “I Sleep To Dream,” a track that would simply function a top level view for the band’s “come what could” philosophy through the years.
“It’s a reminder you could at all times care much less with a purpose to be fortunately shocked by practically something,” says Furgiuele.
—Hobart Rowland
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