Chosen by Monk
My latest choice sees this Danish-Brazilian duo hitting the sweet spot that straddles garage rock, girl groups, doo-wop harmonies, heartache and all points in between, as they take us on a trip to sunny ‘California’ on the latest doube A-side extract from their upcoming fourth album, a collection of songs that opens up their sonic scope while confronting dark, emotional matter to reveal ‘The Soul Of The Fabulous Courettes’.
Both songs, ‘California’ and ‘Run Run Runaway’, feature on the album in slightly different forms and both include guest vocals from La La Brooks, from legendary New York girl group The Crystals.
Guitarist and singer Flavia Couri popped into the club to tell is a bit more about the track:
‘California’ is a song we wrote on our first tour in California last year. We wanted to bring all the sunshine and some psychedelic vibes from The Byrds, the Laurel Canyon, and tons of 12-string guitars to our songwriting. But somehow the lyrics kept some black clouds. It talks about traveling and leaving your loved ones behind. Any musician on the road can relate to this. Although you can have a great time around the world, you’re always missing someone. Home is really where your love is.
We are very proud of this track, and on top of it we have a guest vocalist, the legendary La La Brooks – yes, from The Crystals, the lead voice on the classic ‘Da Doo Ron Ron’, one of our favourite Phil Spector produced songs of all time. To have La La singing with us is an absolute delight and honour. It’s so surreal that we haven’t even realised it has really happened! For the mixing our producer, Søren Christensen, has teamed up with the fantastic Darian Sahanaja (who produced and mixed no less than Brian Wilson’s ‘SMiLE’ album) to enlighten even more the Californian good vibrations. So, open up your windows, let the sunshine in and play this one to the max!
‘The Soul Of The Fabulous Courettes’ is scheduled for release on 27 September, via Damaged Goods Records and the duo are set to bring joy and rock n ’roll celebration to stages across the ÜK in September and October. Miss them at your peril.
