posted Oct 17, 2008, 6:33 PM by Vu Nguyen
From Tell All Your Friends 
Cut Off Your
Hands Announce CMJ DATES & Release First
Single “Happy As Can Be”
Happy As Can Be EP Out Now On Frenchkiss Records,
Available Digitally & In Limited Edition CD
Look Out For US
Debut Release In January 2009
“Joyful” The Guardian
UK "Honestly, what’s not to love? "-
NME
“Pop-punk charm” FACT UK
“Swoonsome” Shortlist
Uk
“Infectious rock’n’pop”
The Fly UK
“(COYH's) hit with
the pop energy of Hot Hot Heat, the angular bouncing madness of Les Savy
Fav, and slow down occasionally to the pace of The Hives”-
Drowned in Sound
Cut Off Your
Hands present Happy As Can Be, the new EP Out
on Frenchkiss Records this October. The self-titled single will also be
featured on their much anticipated, Bernard Butler produced debut album,
You and I, to be released in January 2009.
A carousel of
layered melodies and rhyming couplets, soaring over an insistent,
cavalry-like drumbeat, Happy… follows the successful Expectations,
Cut Off Your Hands’ lead single released in last
September. Expectations has not only received high rotation on
Australia’s premier radio station, JJJ FM, but it recently featured
as the Australian iTunes Single of the Week (SOTW). The track currently
sits as the second largest download in iTunes SOTW history.
This comes as no surprise really. In their short time on both record and
stage, Cut Off Your Hands have built both their
fanbase and media hyperbole on a slew of melodic and downright memorable
offerings. From the romantic naivety of songs like Oh Girl, to the
speeding, hyper-love balladry of the pop-paean Still Fond, the four-piece
have shown they’ve got what it takes to grab the world by it’s
collective scruff and shake them into spinning, lovesick action. Happy As
Can Be continues this impressive mode.
Fresh from being
nominated for the "Breakthrough Artist Of The Year” Award at the 2008
New Zealand Music Awards - an annual awards ceremony being the New Zealand
equivalent of The Brits - the band will be returning to the UK to begin the
second half of their current tour as part of the "Freshers" tour. Buoyed by
the flattering opportunity to have been judged alongside the best of their
homeland’s artistic peers, such as Flight Of The Conchords and Liam
Finn, not to mention the release of their debut album in both New Zealand
and Australia, this UK tour will see the band attacking the stage with
unparalleled zeal. |
CMJ
10/21 -
8pm - The Delancey New Zealand Showcase
10/23 - 4pm - Continental Army
Plaza Todd P Party
10/24 - 9pm - Cake Shop New York Noise Showcase
10/25 - 4pm -Glasslands Daytrotter/Snowghost Party
10/25 - 12am -
Public Assembly Crashin' In Party
Tracklisting
1) You Still Love Me
2) Happy As Can Be
3) Shorelines
4) Nostalgia
5) (Hidden Track)
www.myspace.com/cutoffyourhands
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