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Artist:Parades

Genres:
  • Indie
  • Pop
Sydney, NSW

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Track: Invaders by Parades
Track: InvadersGenres:
  • Indie
  • Pop
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  • triple j

Artist: Parades

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In the summer of 2008 I was invited to sit in on Parades' recording sessions to explain them better than they could ever explain themselves. For the uninitiated, the band walks into an FBi open day with demo in hand, goes onto receive high rotation there as well as a Triple J debut on Richard Kingsmill's 2008 show and a handful of plays on Home and Hosed. Somewhere inbetween they pulled the main support for Malcolm Middleton in just their third show, Jebediah in their eighth and an NYE slot on the annual Peats Ridge Festival. Since their first show in April '08 they've been given heady comparison's to Explosions in the Sky, Radiohead, Fugazi, The Postal Service and Sigur Ros. With a mere demo allowing them to reach such levels of success, one would be excited at the prospects of Paradesí soon to be released debut. I was quite surprised when they asked me to sit in on their new sessions (having been fans of a music blog I wrote some years earlier). I was even more surprised that, ...

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Daniel Cunningham
Bec Shave
Tim Jenkins
Michael Scarpin
Jono Boulet
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