Want summer to come sooner? Then you need Sunny Day Sets Fire in your life!

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sunnydaysetsfire Want summer to come sooner? Then you need Sunny Day Sets Fire in your life! Do you like your indie to really jangle? I’m not talking about the jangle of a corpse rattling a chain, but rather, the sun-kissed jingle and jangle of a classic Teenage Fanclub LP. If that’s the case, you need to prick an ear up for Sunny Day Sets Fire.
SDSF (I’m only abbreviating because I’m insanely lazy) serve up lush psychedelic sunshine pop that doesn’t really sound like anyone from the sixties, but rather, takes a fistful of the sixties spirit and dries it like a tomato in the sun. The group have a new single out called “End Of The Road” / “Lack Of View” (it’s one of those old-fashioned double A-sides that are sadly missing from the world) which is taken from the band’s hotly tipped debut cut, Summer Palace. Pass the cream… boy gonna tan!
You wanna know something about the band? Like it’s going to enhance your listening experience? Man, these records stand up for themselves… but hey, I won’t short-change you. SDSF have five members all hailing from four different countries with two singles and an EP under their belt in the past two years. Multi-instrumentalists Mauro and Onyee met while working as ushers at a London cinema… the ball was in motion…

The two shared a vision of theatre, art and music and when Mauro began writing a collection of ambitious sunshine psych songs, mutual friend Max was asked to join the group. The founding members of Sunny Day Sets Fire (the name came simply from an internet band name generator) began experimenting with every possible trick to realise the impossible task of performing music written for a small orchestra.
Over the next two years, the original members released a succession of singles across Europe, the US and Australia and saw the incremental additions of Ed (bass) and Matthew (drums). Collectively hailing from Italy, Hong Kong, Sardinia, England and Canada; Sunny Day Sets Fire built a nest in East London and began working on their debut album, Summer Palace, throughout 2007.
The band will be touring throughout Europe and the US in 2008, supporting the release of Summer Palace, the upcoming singles and their ‘Stranger’ (another track from the album) remix EP featuring remixes by the likes of CSS, Diplo, XXXCHANGE (Spank Rock) and the Cool Kids.
End Of The Road will be released on Brikabrak Records on the 14th of April… and for a taster, go to their MySpace page (click here). I advise you check out the wonderful bubblegum psych of Wilderness which harks back to the pocket symphony sounds of Mark Wirtz’s Teenage Opera, Pet Sounds and a load of LPs that I love, but are incredibly obscure, so I won’t bother telling you about them. Oh go on then… check Sagittarius’ Present Tense LP.