The Bads to release new album
Posted: Thu Mar 26, 2009 3:32 pm

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THE BADS: SO ALIVE

The highly-anticipated new album SO ALIVE to be released in New Zealand on 27 April 2009

The Bads are pleased to announce that their second album SO ALIVE will be released on 27 April following on from their 2005 critically acclaimed debut ‘Earth from Space’.

Dianne Swann and Brett Adams have worked together since 1992. Swann you will remember from When The Cat’s Away and Adams has recently been playing guitar for Tim Finn and back when he was 19 he played with The Mockers. From The Julie Dolphin, as the pair first called themselves in London, to Boom Boom Mancini and now to The Bads.

The new album is filled with gorgeous melodies and pop songs that shimmer with a country vibe, with indie intentions, with straight-ahead rock; clean guitar lines mixing with quirky ideas. Pitch-perfect harmonies sitting inside precise rhythms – each song feels like a mini-masterpiece that has been worked at, honed, cradled, loved, learned and forgotten then learned again.

Their previous album EARTH FROM SPACE found fans, among them Smashing Pumpkins’ Billy Corgan who introduced the band to an Australian audience on TV and raved. Music from the same album was used in American TV Series Kyle XY and The Unit, and also led to the band composing for the NZ TV series Hunger For The Wild. (The title track from the new album falls out of that work.)

Of their many achievements The Bads, who, as The Julie Dolphin, opened for Green Day and collaborated with Radiohead. Dianne has some strong memories of unique experiences (“seeing Frank Black in the audience when we played at the 100 Club in London” and “collaborating with Thom Yorke [Radiohead] on The Bends Sessions and playing keyboards on Street Spirit at the Astoria would have to be up there”). While Brett has tales of playing with Tim Finn and The Mockers.

So, you have the new album by The Bads – arriving four years after Earth From Space and 17 years after the two songwriters responsible first started working together. Good things take time.

SO ALIVE will be released in New Zealand on 27 April 2009 through Mana/Warner Music

The Bads play in support of Lucinda Williams; April 15 at Wellington Town Hall and April 17 at Auckland Town Hall.

www.thebads.com