With their latest long-player Cruel Guards, Perth five-piece THE PANICS have effortlessly surpassed expectations set by their earlier recordings. A gorgeous record replete with the band's trademark dreamy, cinematic soundscapes and Intelligent and evocative lyrics, Cruel Guards is as original as it is uniquely Australian. We fell in love with lead single Don’t Fight It on the first listen and were equally beguilled by the rest.
Jae Laffer, frontman of the band says: “Without triple j’s support The Panics would have found it very difficult to have gained a national profile. To be up for our second J Award nomination is very much a privilege. The J Award is equivalent to receiving Australia’s highest honour in music. I think it is dead cool that it is an award that is specifically for an album as a body of work rather than purely rewarding chart position or popularity.”
The Panics (Jae Laffer, Drew Wootton, Paul Otway, Julian Douglas and Myles Wootton) formed in high school when Jae Laffer and Drew Wootton met on the first day of term. It’s since been a slow and steady build for The Panics. Since forming in Perth, The Panics released two albums independently including A House On A Street In A Town I'm From (2003) and Sleeps Like A Curse (2005) which was nominated for a J Award and received a raft of critical acclaim. The band went on to spend time in England, performing at the UK's In The City Music convention twice and supporting The Happy Mondays.
Cruel Guards was completed at BJB studios in Sydney earlier this year. The basis of several of the tracks stem from home recordings the band put down in the house they share in Collingwood while further additions were made during sessions in New York City.
Cruel Guards was produced by the band and Scott Horscroft (The Sleepy Jackson, Silverchair) and mixed by Victor Van Vugt (Nick Cave, Beth Orton).
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Cruel Guards / The Panics
Producers: The Panics and and Scott Horscroft
Label: Dew Process/UMA
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Tracklist:
1. Get us home
2. Ruins
3. Creaks
4. Don't fight it WINDOWS | REAL
5. Feeling is gone
6. Cruel Guards
7. Live without
8. Something in the garden
9. Confess
10. Sun downer
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