Dappled Cities

I used to live next door to this guy. He was at uni and I was in high school. Some mornings we would catch the bus together and he would tell me all about life after the dreaded uniform years and how he was in a band. And every time I would ask what the name of his band was and he would reply: "Dappled. Cities. Fly." He was very patient, even though it would have been the tenth time he told me that year. Some time later I was in my first of many festival portaloo's, staring at the poster on the back of the door, when I realised that one of the names at the bottom of the bill was the very one I heard on the bus. They made it! I got so excited that I consumed more alcohol than my 18 year old body could take and passed out under a tree during Wolfmother. True story. But years later, I'm much more responsible and the Dappled Cities boys clearly took my market research very seriously and dropped the last syllable. I wont ever forget them now.

Their new single The Price has been the song I've woken up to almost every day this week (Triple J is loving it...and rightfully so). What a unique sound, especially the vocals that move from the well pronounced to the eerie falsetto to the powerful staccato to the "oohs" of the backup singers. Super excited for the release of their third studio album Zounds, which according to their site is set to launch in 58 days, 17 hours and 51 minutes!

Dappled Cities-The Price (zshare)