Off the back of a stellar debut LP and a suitably impressive list of festival appearances and supports, exhilarating Melbourne-based six-piece Money For Rope are set to tour the country in August and September, 2013.
Here is a band whose songs – pulsing with gutsy, brooding soul melodies and rapturous bass lines – equate to nothing less than an undeniably classy evolution of their contemporaries. Money For Rope is an Australiana-soaked outfit of arresting lineage: think Radio Birdman and The Vasco Era all done up in the rich, heady tones of The Black Keys, The Vines, and Fraser A Gorman.
The band’s debut self-titled LP released in November, 2012 on the fresh-faced Thornbury Records label is truly a force to be reckoned with. The slick production skills of Steven Schram (Cat Empire, Clairy Browne and the Bangin’ Rackettes, Little Red, Devastations) pay homage to Money For Rope’s clever blend of gritty soul and rock and roll. Key tracks include the radio banger ‘Easy Way Out’ – complete with wailing organ solos and inebriating unison vocals – and the horror-tinged stomper ‘Misery Lane’ which is fat, fleshy, and cathartic all at once.
With a new single on the horizon, a sophomore album set for production in 2014 and a list of dates to whet any appetite for soul-lathered ferocity, it would be a mistake to miss Money For Rope as they tour Australia in August and September, 2013. www.facebook.com/moneyforrope East Coast Tour Dates Friday 16 August - Cherry Bar, Melbourne
Saturday 17 August - Cherry Bar, Melbourne
(w/ Drunk Mums, Bec & Ben)
Wednesday 4 September - Yours & Owls, Wollongong
Thursday 5 September - Beach Rd Hotel, Bondi
Friday 6 September - Bar on the Hill, Newcastle (w/ Kingswood)
Saturday 7 September - Spectrum, Sydney
Thursday 12 September - BIGSOUND, Brisbane
Friday 13 September - The Zoo, Brisbane w/ Tumbleweed
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