escalade - X's & O's

[leyrbpw]

If you like bands like Sonic Youth, Hood, Sea & Cake, Stereolab and Television, check out escalade.

escalade is the project of Greg Sullivan, the New Yorker who is based in Tokyo. His debut single, X's & O's, is due out on Cuckundoo Records on 19th November for the 7" and download from 30th Nov.

Hear his music here:
http://myspace.com/escaladers

Greg is touring the UK in December/January - here are the dates confirmed so far:
Saturday 8th December 2007 - RoTa, Notting Hill Arts Centre, London, UK with Kelman
Sunday 9th December 2007 - West Hill Community Hall, Brighton, UK
Thursday 13th December 2007 - The Cube, Bristol, UK with Zombie Zombie
Monday 17th December 2007 - Retro Bar, Manchester, UK
Saturday 5th January 2008 - RoTa, Notting Hill Arts Centre, London, UK

Read reviews here:
http://www.organart.demon.co.uk/neworgan228.htm
http://www.whisperinandhollerin.com/reviews/review.asp?id=5088

[leyrbpw]

You can vote for escalade's x's & o's on Tom Robinson's BBC 6 Music show:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/6music/shows/tom_robinsons_introducing/vote.shtml

[leyrbpw]

There's a review in this month's issue of The Wire of the single:
"Greg Sullivan recently landed in Japan after time floating between America and New Zealand, but his music is resolutely English. There's something 1990s shoegaze about it that doesn't grab me, but Sullivan's smuggled in some unexpected moves to destabilise initially predictable songs. The arrangements are particularly appealing, where little gusts of electronics scatter across regulation indie pop while trumpets and gamely plucked strings duel away in the corner of the studio."