DEADLY SUMMER SWAY - Checks, The

Checks, The - DEADLY SUMMER SWAY <strong>Order online here and get your copy signed by the band PLUS 2 bonus and exclusive tracks via download</strong>.<br>Devonports favourite sons The Checks return with album no. 3 DEADLY SUMMER SWAY, produced by the band and grammy award winning producer Bassy Bob Brockman.

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Artist:: Checks, The
Title:: DEADLY SUMMER SWAY
Label:: Rhythm Method
Format:: CD
Barcode No.:: 191327
Available:: 11-11-2011
Sourced:: New Zealand

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Order online here and get your copy signed by the band PLUS 2 exclusive bonus tracks via download *

Devonports favourite sons The Checks return with album no. 3 DEADLY SUMMER SWAY, produced by the band and grammy award winning producer Bassy Bob Brockman.
In early 2011 THE CHECKS took up residence in a semi-abandoned building in the neon guts of Auckland's CBD. Office space was converted to recording studio; dingy walls that look like they
would taste of capers and grimy benches became pinup space for song forms and artwork. Treacle Toffee World (their pre-england practice/writing space) was born again. A month out from zero hour, Bassy Bob flew in from New York City and became one with the band, engulfed every night in the hectic world of THE CHECKS creative process. After three intense weeks demoing the new tracks, the album took shape just in time to enter the analogue playground of Roundhead Studios. 'Deadly Summer Sway' combines crisp warm tones of ribbon mics, The Who's 1974 Neve mixing console and twenty four track tape with a hip hop producers digital swagger. The raw punk energy present in their early sound has evolved into a more colourful and intricate sonic
weave.

Hi I am Edward from The Checks. I am going to tell you about my band. It's a good band. We started out at the age of 15 genuinely believing we were the best band on the planet and I guess we still do, just in a slightly more socially acceptable manner. We grew up in Devonport on Auckland's North Shore. We all went to school together, watched each other get 3-month girlfriends, driving licenses and patchy side burns. They were golden years spent driving around, changing the gears with our feet, to various pie retailers, beaches and op shops. We all lived through each other's c.d collections and before we knew it music had taken over our lives, unapologetically.
We decided to make a band when "Is This It" by The Strokes came out. Very quickly afterwards we entered the National Band Competition with an average age of 15. All we had was a guitar riff with a gap where I would shout anything I could think of into the microphone before repeating the cycle. Talk about a formula. It really worked because things started looking up.
Nearly ten years have passed since we began and we have just completed our third studio album 'Deadly Summer Sway' with producer Bassy Bob Brockman from New York City. He mixed nearly all of Biggie Smalls work amongst other big names that sound good in a bio. Bob Dylan (cough cough). He worked his fingers to the bone for us and quickly became a close friend. It's an album of 10 good songs. I never thought we would be able to make a short album but it just seemed to form that way magnetically.
I have now reached the part that hasn't happened yet so I better give it a rest. Thanks for reading.

* Bonus MP3 tracks are "Spiders Demo" and "One Sock Demo" and you will be sent a card inside your signed CD which includes a web address and unique code to get access to these tracks

Track Listing

Disc 1:

Dogs of perfection
Ready to die
Black frog
One sock
Perfect lover
Winter sun
Spiders
Candyman shimmer
Jet plane
My brother

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