Madrid garage trio The Parrots have announced that their debut UK EP ‘Weed For The Parrots’ will be released via Luv Luv Luv Records on Monday June 22nd.
Diego García, Alex de Lucas and Larry Balboa may only have a change of cheap moncler clothes and pockets full of tobacco, but they also have a quest to rock your town with smiles on their faces, and this debut EP should be a perfect introduction into what fun The Parrots will be bringing to your life in the near future.
“The EP is about traveling to play our next show with empty pockets and a will to play our music. Each night that we arrive to a new city we ask everyone in the audience to donate a little weed to get us by. The songs were written at a time when alcohol and weed were present every day,” says the band “As a result, life was confusing and kind of out of control, followed by terrible hangovers surrounded by dirt, drinking sangria and eating Chinese noodles. Things are still getting crazier every day but now we deal with this stuff way better and have lots of fun.”
The six track EP kicks off with the short, fear-ridden, subway meltdown of ‘Terror’, followed by the melodic auto-destructive relationship-buster, ‘White Fang’, and the life embracing, barfly drunk anthem, ‘To The People Who Showed Me Their Love While I Was Here’. Their ode to The Almighty Defenders in their cover of ‘All My Loving’ then sees the band in pure party drive before ‘I’m Not Alone’ tackles a hefty dose of depression, leaving the hungover crackle of ‘Wild’ to end the EP, that would not sound out of place around an open fire accompanied by a bottle of bourbon. It’s a 15 minute trip fuelled by fuzzed-out reverbed guitars and garage beats, driven by analogue bass tones and a love for classic nuggets.
‘Weed for the Parrots’ will be available via Luv luv Luv Records on limited edition 10” vinyl and digital download on June 22nd. Pre-order yours now from here.
The Parrots will be back in the UK this May to play the following shows:
24th May – Manchester @Fuel Cafe
25th May – Leeds @Gold Sounds
26th May – Brighton @ Green Door Store
27th May – London @93 Feet East
As premiered on NME.
