Artist: Wake The President
Title: You Can't Change That Boy
Label: Electric Honey
Genre: Indie
Bitrate: 197kbit av.
Time: 00:36:13
Size: 53.65 mb
Rip Date: 2009-02-11
Str Date: 2009-03-09
1. Something To Turn Up 1:32
2. Professor 3:04
3. Mail, Alice 3:48
4. Miss Tierney 2:59
5. Wake 5:40
6. You Can't Change That Boy 2:23
7. Remember Fun? 3:09
8. The Security Place 2:59
9. Just Give Me Two Secs 4:37
10. A & E 6:02
Release Notes:
Wake The President release their debut album, You Can't Change
That Boy, on 9th March 2009. The album was recorded at
Chemikal Underground's CHEM19 studios, co - produced by ex-
Delgados' drummer Paul Savage (whose recent credits include
Franz Ferdinand, King Creosote, & Malcolm Middleton). Wake The
President is the latest innovative group to be released on the
award-winning student-run Glasgow label, Stow College's
Electric Honey Records (others include Belle & Sebastian, Snow
Patrol, Biffy Clyro). Electric Honey is overseen by Douglas
MacIntyre (The Creeping Bent Organisation) and Ken McCluskey
(Bluebells / McCluskey Bros), and is a core element of Stow
College's Music Industry Management degree course. Wake the
President have been tipped by MOJO as a modern independent
group to keep an eye on, which follows on from their two
previous singles being Record of the Week on BBC Radio 2 and
XFM. Radio sessions have also been recorded for BBC Radio
Scotland, BBC Radio 2 and XFM.
Gigging for a few years now, the band have built up a strong
live following since their formation at Glasgow University
back in the summer of 2005. They draw their influences from a
variety of sources, with the Postcard - era GoBetweens / Aztec
Camera unashamedly seeping through in their diverse harmonies
and melodies. This is allied to Erik's lyrics, which are a bit
of a conundrum... West End debauchery and deceit seem to be a
recurring subject, along with Jerome novels, infidelity and
dipsomnia. Whilst Bjorn's guitar is very much influenced by
Orange Juice's James Kirk and Felt's Maurice Deebank. Wake the
President's music encapsulates and portrays the beauty of a
city which has been in desperate need for reflection, in a
manner not dissimilar to another one of their influences, The
Smiths.