PACKS Share Iceage Cover "Drink Rain", On Tour This Fall
Toronto-based band PACKS are today sharing new music, a cover of Iceage's “Drink Rain." The single showcases vocalist Madeline Link in a newly vulnerable and stripped-down light, whose throaty, heady version of the track glimmers in its sparse yet emotive delivery that pays tribute to the introspective original. Maddie adds:
"When I first listened to this song, I was awestruck. I listened all day every day for weeks, trying to engrain each note into my brain. A love song about bugs and rainwater in a strange, unpredictable key. The simple desperation quietly called out to me, saying, 'You need to learn this song on the guitar so you can sing it too.' So I sat down one afternoon when I was alone and picked it out. Now when I listen to it, it's less because of the obsessive need to, and more out of sheer pleasure."
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Toronto’s PACKS make music that’s like leafing through a diary entry of a time without visible movement, a subtle beauty that appears only when paying close attention. The band’s debut is a collection of songs that marry the loose but incisive jangle of early Pavement with the barbed sweetness of Sebadoh and the wide-eyed wonder of the first Shins LP. Written in two different settings, between the city limits of Toronto where Link was living in 2019, and the Ottawa suburbs where she was quarantined with her parents in the spring 2020, both remain complementary emblems of self-reflection and wry observation of the mundanity of daily life. "Take the Cake" is out on Fire Talk (Dehd, Deeper, Mamalarky) on May 21st digitally and July 9th 2021 on vinyl.
1st Pressing
Cake Splatter Vinyl - 300 Copies
Black Vinyl - 400 Copies
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Light Blue Indie Retail Exclusive - 300 Copies
Bright Red Rough Trade Exclusive - 100 Copies