NEWS: The Preatures Release Jim Eno-Produced Debut Album, Blue Planet Eyes, September 30th

August 28, 2014 • Leave a Comment

The Preatures by Kitty Callaghan

Sydney, Australia’s five-piece rock band The Preatures released EP Is This How You Feel? on Harvest Records in October 2013. The title song, “a mid-tempo, feel-good, groove-based confection that explodes into one of the year’s best choruses,” was named Best New Track by Pitchfork, and the band was declared a CMJ Artist To Watch by Fuse, Paste, and KCRW.

Their 2014 SXSW performances, including the festival-edition of Jimmy Kimmel Live, did exactly what SXSW performances are supposed to do: get people psyched on new bands. Critic Jim DeRogatis was converted: Fronted by the captivating Izzy Manfredi, who exudes a leather-jacketed, retro/New Wave cool a la Debbie Harry or Chrissie Hynde, the band incorporates percolating electronic rhythms with strains of Motown soul and garage-rock guitar… their self-confidence, energy, and maturity onstage belie their relative inexperience, and it’s difficult not to get swept away.

With most of their new material already written and road-tested, The Preatures decided to stay put in Austin and record their first album at Public Hi-Fi with producer Jim Eno of Spoon. The band settled in for three-and-a-half weeks of Tecate and breakfast taco-fueled studio magic. Between festival dates at Coachella and Bonnaroo, guitarist Jack Moffitt finished production and mixed the album on the road and at the band’s Doldrums Studio in Sydney.

Blue Planet Eyes, their debut full-length album, is out September 30^th. New single “Somebody’s Talking” delivers on the promise of their EP – it’s exhilarating, joyful pop with an undeniable rock swagger.