The Answering Machine Unveil Video & Free Track!
aaamusic | On 05, Oct 2010
The Answering Machine have unveiled the video for their brand new single ‘Animals’:
‘Animals’ is the first single from The Answering Machine’s new album ‘Lifeline’. The single is released on ltd edition 7″ on the 25th October. It is also available to download for free now:
The Answering Machine – Animals by HeistOrHit
‘Lifeline’ – The Answering Machine’s follow-up to last year’s debut album ‘Another City, Another Sorry’ – is due for release in early 2011. Before that they will play a series of UK shows and then head out to Europe as support to Tokyo Police Club. Full list of tour dates are as follows:
The Answering Machine UK Tour
21st October @ New Slang, Kingston
22nd October @ The Soundhouse, Leicester
26th October @ The Deaf Institute, Manchester
27th October @ Hoxton Bar & Kitchen, London
28th October @ King Tuts Wah Wah Hut, Glasgow
29th October @ Café Drummonds, Aberdeen
The Answering Machine European Tour w/ Tokyo Police Club
17th Nov @ Uebel and Gefaehrlich, Hamburg
18th Nov @ Botanique Rotonde, Brussels
21st Nov @ Luxor, Koln
22nd Nov @ Lido, Berlin
23rd Nov @ 59tol, Munich
26th Nov @ Das Bett, Frankfurt
27th Nov @ Sonic Vision Festival, Luxembourg
The band have also unveiled their brand new website, which can be found here: http://www.theansweringmachine.co.uk/
THE ANSWERING MACHINE
Single: ‘Animals’
Release Date: 25th October
Label: Heist or Hit Records
Manchester art-rock quartet The Answering Machine return with the first material from their forthcoming second album, ‘Lifeline’ due out in early 2011.
Born into a haze of buzz and bluster in 2008, the band dived underground to write and develop more than the handful of songs that received such fanfare before they’d even bought their own amplifiers. The critical acclaim for debut album ‘Another City, Another Sorry’ in 2009 was widespread, with their melody-heavy, fizzing indie pop songs receiving due attention across the nation’s radio airwaves too.
Whilst the gigs got bigger and The Answering Machine jetted off to LA where every party with a pulse had them booked as the house-band. Twitter was awash with Americans hyperbolising about Britain’s latest buzzing guitar exports, and after weeks of sweat and excitement, the band returned to the UK to work on album 2.
Animals is the first taster of Lifeline. Older and wiser, but losing none of their insatiable desire for a hook and a melody, The Answering Machine describe ‘Another City, Another Sorry’ as the finest recap of their teenage years condensed into one thrilling pop record, whilst Lifeline is the sound of a band maturing quickly.
Recorded and produced alone with old analogue equipment found in a skip outside their city rehearsal studios, that same space inadvertently became a makeshift recording studio (sandwiched between noisy dance rehearsals and a shabby metal band), where the band toiled and reinvented their new songs of isolation and optimism.
As Manchester finds its stride with the band’s rehearsal pals Everything Everything and Delphic pulling in the plaudits, one of the city’s favourites have dusted themselves down, basked in the glory of their own mini American odyssey, and settled down to write a record with mature heads on ever youthful shoulders. 2011 cannot come quickly enough.
The Answering Machine are: Martin Colclough (vocals/guitar), Pat Fogarty (vocals/guitar), Gemma Evans (vocals/bass) and Ben Perry (vocals/drums)
