Spanish Prisoners: “Downtown Chicagoland”.

February 10, 2012, 0 comments

We are unfortunately a little late on posting about the psych/art rock outfit Spanish Prisoners and their debut album Gold Fools. Released back in October last year, and having gotten a handful of excellent reviews, I’m surprised that it did, for whatever reason, miss our radar. All though I don’t so see much of a parallel to Destroyer as stated in this review, Spanish Prisoners’ spaced-out, psychedelic art rock in an early 70′s outfit sounds a bit like Bear In Heaven gone surfing, even though the song titles includes “Cadillac From Yesterday” or “Lipstick under the Table”, which would perhaps fool you to think we’re talking about a high class rock’n'roll band. Thankfully we’re not.

Today, the band releases two alternate versions of “Downtown Chicagoland”, the last song from Gold Fools (and also their own favourite, they say), the first one dreamier and with a greater bedroom recorded sound than the other, whilst the second one is based more around the PE1000 vintage synth. Also, if you haven’t already, download the album via Bandcamp, and if you want to catch up on their US tour starting off at the end of this month, you may want to have a look at their Kickstarter campaign too. We’re at least planning to bounce by their SXSW show for sure.

02/24 Brooklyn, NY- Knitting Factory
03/06 Brooklyn, NY – Death By Audio
03/07 Philadelphia, PA – Kungfu Necktie
03/08 Washington, DC – TBA
03/09 Baltimore, MD – Soft House
03/10 Savannah, GA – Savannah Stopover Festival
03/11 Jacksonville, FL – Burro Bar
03/12 New Orleans, LA – Allways Lounge
03/13 – 03/17 SXSW
03/18 Little Rock, AR – Stickyz
03/19 Conway, AR – Ford Theatre
03/20 Memphis – TBA
03/21 Nashville, TN – the Zombie Shop
03/22 Cincinnati, OH – Mt Carmel Brewing Company
03/23 La Salle, IL – 9th Street Pub
03/24 Chicago, IL – Pancho’s
03/25 Columbus, OH – TBA
03/27 Rochester, NY – The Bug Jar
03/28 Northampton, MA – TBA
03/29 Boston, MA – Middle East
03/30 Providence, RI – AS220
03/31 New York, NY – TBA