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Time: 8:30pm
SydneyÂ's Dead Letter Chorus & MelbourneÂ's Skipping Girl Vinegar, two of AustraliaÂ's finest proponents of indie, folk rock, alt acoustic pop have just announced that they will be hitting the road together across May for a co-headline East Coast tour. The Victorian and Queensland legs of the tour have been announced with NSW dates tba next week.
With both bands having recently released their respective debut albumÂ's to national acclaim, the similarities and simultaneous differences between the two are striking.
Skipping Girl Vinegar released their debut album Â"Sift The NoiseÂ" in September last year. Testament to the bandÂ's obsession with melody, pop-hook, and the search to stretch their song craft Â"Sift The NoiseÂ" is a dark, warm, organic record that reflects the environments and journey of the band. Two tracks from the album (Â'One ChanceÂ' and title track Â'Sift The NoiseÂ') both received strong triple J rotation, the latter, still a current fixture on triple J playlists, was also recently added to ABC local radio rotation (65+ stations nationwide). J mag gave the album 4.5 stars, Scene Mag heralded Â"an album that surely ranks as one of the finest Australian releases this yearÂ". Inpress summed it up well: Â"The hype surrounding Skipping Girl Vinegar has bordered on the insane in recent months. .. the end result is an inescapably great albumÂ"
Dead Letter Chorus released their debut album Â"The August MagnificentÂ" in October last year. Entirely self-produced by members of the band and recorded in a studio they helped to build, design and decorate to convert from an unused basement to a creative and sonically pleasing environment, the album is an intensely personal insight into a band at work. Mixed by the legendary Tim Whitten (The Panics, Youth Group, theredsunband) in Sydney's Big Jesus Burger and Sony studio's and mastered by Don Bartley @ Benchmark Mastering, Â"The August MagnificentÂ" was released to rave reviews. The Sydney Morning Herald gave it 4.5 stars, Rave and Time Off magazines each gave it 4 stars apiece but Rip It Up said it best: Â"the type of album you donÂ't just need to hear. .. you need to inhabitÂ"
