Euros Childs has announced the release of new album, Summer Special , and as a teaser of things to come posted new video, That’s Better online. The former frontman of much loved 90s Welsh band, Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci, brings his own take on pop wizardry back to bear like Goldylocks returning fully grown and H.O.T to the house she first tasted the sweet sweet nectar of porridge to confront the still angry and now ageing father grizzly about the innocent output of her youth.
Summer Special has been given a release date of the 27th August 2012, capping off a period of frenetic musical releases, that has few parallels. Over the last three years, Euros Childs has boxed up and put out an impressive four albums and Summer Special takes the tally up to five. If he were an Olympian, he’d be a smaller, hairier Michael Phelps.
The video release, That’s Better (not to be mistaken as That Badger, a tale of badger related high jinks), is a well crafted reverse-corkscrewed pop track with a slow addiction. It’s got a little Velvet Underground rhythm and closes out on a clarinet solo.
Summer Special will be released on Euros Childs’ own label, National Elf. Childs describes the new recoding as a straight ahead pop album and in the modern day of contest winning pop outfits, a decent indie-pop release would be pretty welcome in our books.
A little of the Welsh language pop that added much to Mynchi’s success and legend in Wales (and Patagonia maybe) features on the album too in Clap a Chan, which translates as clap and sing. The album will be released on CD as well as digital download from the Euros Childs website www.euroschilds.com with the option to donate.
The full track listing for Euros Childs’ Summer Special is:
1. Be Be High
2. That’s Better
3. I’m Seeing Her Tonight
4. Headphone Mona
5. Clap a Chan
6. Roogie Boogie
7. Round and Around
8. Painting Pictures Of Summer
9. These Dreams of You
10. That Good Old Fashioned Feeling
11. Skipping and Dancing
12. Good Feeling
I received my copy today. Stonking from start to finish!