After two great cassette EPs, out on GoldMold Records in 2023, Dancer returns with their debut album, 10 Songs I Hate About You out on Spanish label Meritorio Records, out MArch 15th.
Written throughout 2023 and recorded over a weekend in August of that year, Dancer returned to Green Door studio and recorded this debut LP live to tape with Ronan Fay, as with their 2 proceeding EPs. Looking to strike the perfect balance between these previous extended plays and something more, they attempt to truly define a Dancer sound in the long play format. The 10 songs in question push, pull and then elaborate on former characteristics – only now they are skewed into greater pop forms; caressed by jittery rhythms and searing guitar-isms that dive into passages of melodic wool and warmth. All using an energy that even the band themselves are surprised to muster.
The first single out the album is Passionate Sunday and today we have the honour to premiere its beautiful video.

Passionate Sunday (video premiere)

What They Say: “Passionate Sunday was written primarily by Gemma from the band, she sang the song acapella to the rest of the band and we wrote an instrumental around it. It’s our favourite song from the album and we think it’s one of our poppiest and most concise songs. The song is about how even when people are broke and have no money, there are always things that make life fun anyway! The video was shot by some of the band in Limassol, Cyprus over Christmas 2023“.

The Album:

“This heaving audio mass is structured beneath the awesome vocals of Gemma Fleet, whose narrative and lyrical savvy paints a hundred colourful pictures in words. Examining and exhuming fragmented memories of the 90’s, the technological breakdown of our modern age and the simplicity of love in a time of madness, all with a trademark panache and a voice like no other. At times, her singing segues into spoken passages and vice versa, an instrument of sloganeering profundity that pirouettes across the landscape of sound and the battery power bringing Dancer’s music into motion. Chris Taylor takes his distinctive guitar exploration to new and exciting zones of impressiveness on songs such as ‘Passionate Sunday’ and ‘Make A Decision’ and continues to utilize his now infamous keys-attached-to-guitar contraption, a key-tar-esque triumph in homemade music tech. Gavin Murdoch plays drums with feeling, put that on a t-shirt!  The elastic bass attack from Andrew Doig does not really sit still or too steady, choosing wonky melody over anything too rigid and it is all testament to a love affair with the instrument and its infinite possibilities.
10 Songs I Hate About You came about somewhat effortlessly, piecing together old and new songs and striving to evoke the influences of the group: Life Without Buildings, Elastica, Owls, The Cardigans and Altered Images (to name a few) into one swaggering debut dipped in a condiment of emotion and good humour.
The LP was Recorded and mixed by Ronan Fay, mastered by Alvaro Lisson with artwork by Scott Jason Smith and photography by Anthony Gerace.”

Tracklist:

1. Bluetooth Hell

2. Change

3. Troi

4. Rein It In

5. A Diagnosis

6. When I Was A Teenage Horse

7. Make A Decision

8. International Birdman

9. Turns Out

10. Passionate Sunday

Passionate Sunday is out now on all streaming platforms. 10 Songs I Hate About You is set for release on Meritorio Records on March 15, 2024. Look HERE for more information about Dancer.