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Vienna Ditto Releases ‘Tiny Tambourines’ Remix
"...woozy synths, skittering arpeggios, and explosions of sequined electronics..." -
Earmilk
“…wild-eyed rockabilly riffs with sparse, atmospheric electronica.” - Q Magazine
Eccentric alternative duo Vienna Ditto have released a remix for their track Tiny Tambourines, by musician and producer Graeme Rawson aka Forget Gravity.
The remix premiered on Earmilk and is available to stream via Forget Gravity's Soundcloud page.
Forget Gravity is also a part of Ubiquity Project Records - along with Vienna Ditto - and has previously released two highly successful EPs Forget Gravity I and II, with lead single Fires At Night attracting over 500,000 views and streams across online platforms worldwide. Forget Gravity's first full-length debut album is due for release mid 2016.
Tiny Tambourines (Forget Gravity Remix) blends the style of the two bands brilliantly using dance-like beats, arpeggios and synth work from Forget Gravity and using Hatty Taylor's beautiful lead lines and melodies.
Vienna Ditto has also recently released their video for Ticks, which combines gospel blues, surf rock and primitive electronica to create a sound that is full of naïve wonder. You can watch the hilarious video now via the band's YouTube channel.
Vienna Ditto’s brand new EP Ticks is a collection of seven sonically-alluring sci-fi blues tracks that slip somewhere between a Quentin Tarantino soundtrack, a charity shop Bacharach-on-the-Moog-Synthesizer album and a bad night on the brown acid.
Each track has its own sound; Frank Account swaggers like a glam rock incarnation of the Andrews Sisters, whilst infectiously-catchy title track Ticks - which grouches along on a deeply Kinks-y riff and a Planet Rock electro beat - crackles with a nameless, twitchy paranoid disgust. The EP also features more gospel-influenced tracks such as Motherless Child, which feels almost like it could be a cut from an Etta James or Nina Simone record, with lead singer Hatty Taylor’s smokey, bruised vocals taking centre stage. The band put the dark, almost dystopian vibe that clings to the whole affair down to “...mainly being up at night, not eating so good and watching (German 20s Expressionist film) Metropolis over and over”.
Vienna Ditto have already received praise from the likes of Q Magazine, Artrocker, BBC Radio 1’s Huw Stephens and BBC 6Music’s Tom Robinson amongst others. With Ticks, the unlikely, delectable and ever-so-slightly dysfunctional duo delve a little deeper into the phenomenal sonic capabilities of combining blues, electronica and surf rock to create something truly mesmerising. Catch Vienna Ditto live at the following dates, with tickets available from their website.
6th May - St James Wine Vaults - Bath
12th May - The Bullingdon - Oxford
13th May - Rising Sun Arts Centre - Reading
14th May - The Moon Club - Cardiff
28th May - Peripheral Festival - Norwich
29th May - Common People Festival - Oxford
3 - 4th June - Brew At The Bog - Inverness
5 - 7th August - Sunflowerfest - Hillsborough
Ticks is out on 13th May 2016 via Ubiquity Project Recordings and is available to pre-order via the duo's Bandcamp page now.