Spend a minute with any Seventeen Evergreen track and you’ll be greeted with the sirens of the forest, the stars in the sky, the vibrations of the ground dancing together in the ether to form an intricate yet consummate aural feast for your stereo.

“The album’s other-worldliness recalls Midlake only with the time-machine set for the future rather than the past” (The Independent Album 4/5)

“Seventeen Evergreen may be about to follow in the footsteps of such indie-oddball crossovers as Mercury Rev, Flamin Lips and Midlake”(The Independent 5/5).

“Mixing rock and electronics, they mine the same louche, spectral box of ballads as Air, early 1970s Pink Floyd and Sparklehorse, but with a definitive West Coast twist that suggests hallucinogens ingested under desert skies.…what a sublime debut” (The Times Album 4/5)

“If you are lamenting the demise of Grandaddy, Seventeen Evergreen are the bands natural heirs”. (Uncut Album 4/5)

Straight outta Melbourne, Australia, with 3 lead singers fighting for every note over 4 part harmonies & skin-tight primal rhythms, Adrian Beltrame (Guitar, Vocals), Dominic Byrne (Vocals, Guitar), Quang Dinh (Vocals, Bass), Taka Honda (Drums) and Tom Hartney (Vocals, Percussion) are Little Red.

They are the hottest all singing, all dancing incarnation of the quintessential rock ‘n’ roll band, simultaneously both classic and anachronistic in a way that’s guaranteed to generate excitement.

Rather than stealing inspiration from the ‘book of cool’ this 5-piece cut to the chase in a pure style they jokingly refer to as ‘doo-wop punk‘. They maintain almost exclusively iconic influences, from a palette of Springsteen, Radiohead, early Elvis, Dylan, Sam Cooke, Nick Cave, The Beatles, and Lou Reed, as well as the more obscure gospel and doo-wop references that become apparent from listening to their fierce vocal passion, delivering the beauty and tension of musical emotion in a ragged and raw expression.

Formed from a core of childhood friends and named after a song from the canon of Chicago blues legend, Willy Dixon, which reached no 1 in the UK via a cover from The Rolling Stones, Little Red’s sound is remarkable: at once familiar and totally new.

Their Australian heritage has allowed them to be influenced by the classic British and American artists, but together with Melbourne’s D.I.Y. ethic, the isolation of living on the world’s largest island has promoted unique development away from prying eyes. The wide-open landscapes of their locality encourage the same wide-eyed world conquering ideas that spawned the long-gone power of the original Americana, now replaced by more corporate populist cynicism. Their sound represents a back-to-basics rawness, where everything you hear is the sound of recording live in a room. Like The Strokes & The Shins at their most influential, they deliver a dual quality of referencing timeless classicism with the urgent modernity of youth.

The band’s moves are increasingly garnering attention in their homeland, from winning Australia’s 2008 ‘Garage To V Festival‘ competition, to touring with Vampire Weekend, to selling 40k albums and counting of their self-released debut album Listen To. For the big World outside Australia, we are delighted to be the band’s home and look forward to the impending release of a newly re-mastered, international version of their debut – complete with a revised track-listing and updated artwork.

Listening to Little Red, you’re reminded of all the good things in life. As you dance like no one’s watching, and sing with your best bathroom gurgle in an attempt to recreate the essential quality of the band, one thing’s for sure, it’s hard not to smile.

It’s rare for an independent artist to put out an album that wins a clutch of national awards. It’s rarer still for said album to be recorded and produced in the artist’s bedroom. And for that artist to be a singing drummer with a seemingly unpronounceable name? Gotye (pronounced: ‘Gaultier’, like Jean-Paul, the French clothes designer) is a singular find.

This Belgian-born, but Australian based, singer, songwriter and sampler, christened Wouter De Backer, (but known to friends as Wally) was awarded the (Mercury Prize equivalent) Australian Music Prize award for outstanding potential, the Australian Independent Records album of the year and the Australian Recording Industry Award (ARIA) for Best Male Artist. He also picked up, the iTunes UK 2008 Album of the Year for Like Drawing Blood.

“The best cut’n’paste album since the Avalanches….Like Drawing Blood is a meticulously crafted mishmash that sounds thoroughly modern” Sunday Times Culture

“Belgian-Australian singer-songwriter-sampler coming on like Beck fronting The Avalanches.” The Guardian

“Makes Mark Ronson?s musical tastes seem rather narrow-minded. Royksopp but with added soul. This is an amazing orchestral offering” Zoo

“Considering he is essentially a one-man-band ( and a supreme drummer at that), you can only marvel at the scale of the soundscapes” Esquire

“The Wizard of Aussie Pop” Sunday Times

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