Music

Wild Party / Napoleon IIIrd

John Rogers | Thursday 16 September, 2010 10:21

Today’s MPfree is by Wild Party. They are from Texas. You have to wonder if they’ve ever played a shit gig to twelve friends in some dive bar while people stand still, blatantly not having a wild party, and if some joker asked for his money back, and if there was then a drunken scuffle with the frontman and the whole thing ended up with people shouting in the street and attempting to have a conversation with a huge simian doorman and getting nowhere, with the leftover attendees trickling out of the door, heads shaking.

There must have been a Wild Party wild party at some point though, sounding, as they do, like a vocodered Strokes. Below is the b-side on the single. The a-side is better. But obvs they want people to buy that, so, you know. Hard lines, pal.

The band describe their forthcoming album thus: “So, like this giant evergreen right? Like it falls perfectly across a rapid river… deep in the tropical forest of Mozambique, and even though there’s like no one there to hear the sound, an inexplicable energy is released that animals react to instinctively and begin making their voyage on this celestial, unspoken of path to the mainland and righteous parties.”

Wild Party – Life’s Too Short by snipelondon

Also: when not doing music stuff for Snipe, I’ve been over at Brainlove Records working hard getting Napoleon IIIrd’s second album ready for release. The first track, “The Unknown Unknown”, is a freebie – grab it below or, if you’re feeling viral, use the song-spreading wonder that is Tweet For a Track.

Napoleon IIIrd – The Unknown Unknown by brainlove

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