Win A Copy of El Perro Del Mar's Stunning New Release!
The Dwarf has three copies to give away!
In 2003 a girl from Sweden called Sarah went to a Spanish island to sit on the beach and muse about her life. She'd been making music as long as she could remember but nothing quite matched the melodies that lived in her dreams. This depressed her. In fact, she hadn't written anything for several years which left her feeling 'really odd, kind of empty'. Picture her, if you will, looking out to sea, to the coast of Africa.
Suddenly, out of nowhere, a dog appears on the shore. 'Something about this moment just spoke to me', says Sarah. 'I kept seeing that dog all week. When I came home I felt better'. Her muse returned. Back home in Gothenburg, she was inspired to write a bunch of songs that harked back to the Brill Building era, the youthful emotions of Goffin & King, only filtered through gauze, through dreams, circular and comforting. Shockingly so.
Under the name El Perro Del Mar (in tribute to the salty sea dog), Sarah's first EP came out in Sweden in March 2004. Lead-off track Candy and the heartbreaking Party pinned down the El Perro Del Mar sound: minimal sound, an acoustic wash, a boom of tympani, some rippling chimes.
By the time of Spring 2005 eleven songs were collected and released on the album 'Look! It’s El Perro Del Mar!'. A superb EP – 'You Gotta Give To Get' – was released in Sweden a little later, and included the tracks God Knows (You Gotta Give To Get), Do The Dog and Say.
In Spring 2006 a reconfigured ten-track album was released under the title 'El Perro Del Mar' in the UK and greaters parts of Europe through the British label Memphis Industries (home of The Go! Team and Blue States). Licensed to Inertia’s inhouse imprint, Rogue Records (CocoRosie, Vashti Bunyan, Danny George Wilson, Small Sips), the local edition is expanded further to fourteen tracks, and includes songs from the EPs, songs culled from the UK version of the album, and a brand new, previously unreleased song!
To celebrate the good folk at Rogue/Inertia have given us the opportunity to give you the opportunity to hear this lush brilliance for yourself!
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El Perro Del Mar is available now through Rogue/Inertia
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