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The Morning Benders - Big Echo In Stores March 9th
Rough Trade / Beggars Group are pleased to announce the signing of San Fransico’s The Morning Benders. Now based in NYC, the band will be releasing their new offering, Big Echo, on March 9th.
Big Echo, produced and engineered by Chris Taylor (Grizzly Bear) is available on US import CD and Vinyl, with complimentary MP3 download coupon.
The band will be touring heavily in support of the album, with confirmed Canadian headlining shows April 3rd Vancouver (Media Club), April 14th Toronto (The Drake Hotel), and April 15th Montréal (La Sala Rossa).
The group has previously toured in support of Grizzly Bear (fall 2009), The Kooks and Death Cab for Cutie (summer 2008), Ra Ra Riot (fall 2008), and also with Yo La Tengo, MGMT, Grand Archives, Yeasayer, Two Gallants, The Rosebuds, Au Revoir Simone, and We Are Scientists.
The debut album”Talking Through Tin Cans” was the iTunes Independent album of the year 2008.
The Morning Benders are Chris Chu (vocals, guitars, organ, rhodes, pianos), Joe Ferrell (guitars, rhodes, pianos, organ), Julian Harmon (drums, percussion) & Tim Or (bass).
For a free download of the album track Promises, visit www.myspace.com/themorningbenders
For more information, please visit www.beggarsgroup.ca
“Take a trawl through the annals of ear-sticking melodies and you’ll follow cupid’s arrow, soaring in a straight line from the Brill Building to the Beatles…Follow that arrow a bit further, and you’ll find your heart racing to the love-is-all indie pop of Berkeley’s Morning Benders”. – SF BAY GUARDIAN
“Rarely has a debut album sounded so fresh and endearing”. – LA Times
“Jaunty, melodic tunes ideal for summer days and rainy afternoons”. – SPIN
“A lot of the writing on the forthcoming, impressively consistent and endlessly catchy Big Echo is set in that ineffable state of yearning and pensiveness that comes with coming of age, tightly packaged in clever if simply constructed pop”. – Stereogum
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