PACKS Break Down 'WOAH' Track by Track on Songs From The Catalog
Last year we launched our very own podcast “Songs From The Catalog” where Fire Talk artists talk songs from our catalog. This week we’re back with a brand new episode featuring PACKS breaking down their new EP “WOAH” track by track. Talking all the songs from the record inspired by parasites picked up in Mexico, fever dreams on tour in Boston, country singer alliteration & those big dumb radio ear-worms. It's all here in the latest episode of Songs From The Catalog.
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WOAH is the new EP by PACKS, available digitally on Fire Talk and Royal Mountain. The Toronto-based band’s “scruffy and bright lo-fi indie rock that sounds just as joyously off-the-cuff” (Nylon) also garnered praise from the likes of NME, Stereogum, FADER, Line of Best Fit and more, with Bandcamp calling debut record ‘Take the Cake’ “the sound of classic indie rock, as delivered by a promising new voice.” Fresh off supporting Good Morning on their full US tour, ‘WOAH’ sees Madeline Link refine her voice in this solo project that features some of her most inventive songwriting to date. Strategically sparse, these eight new songs accommodate another side of Link’s prolific creativity, with nuanced acoustic guitar and lyrics that puncture in their stark realism.
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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
Additional Variants
Light Blue Indie Retail Exclusive - 300 Copies
Bright Red Rough Trade Exclusive - 100 Copies