Summer 2008
The band has been in the studio tracking three more tunes
that we'll be adding to the five we recorded earlier this year. Look
for a fuller-length release on the Saustex
label sometime later this year.
All the tracks were recorded at Aerie Studios in Austin, with Mark Addison engineering and producing.
September 25, 2007
The Summer Wardrobe will take on a new moniker for our shows backing up Roky Erickson.
With Roky, we'll be known as Evilhook Wildlife ET. The name is Roky's
idea, and we think it works better for his situation than the Summer
Wardrobe.
It doesn't mean we're getting rid of the Summer Wardrobe name; Evilhook
Wildlife ET is just the name we'll be using for our shows backing up
Roky.
Speaking of which, right now we've got three Roky shows on the books:
October 12 in Conroe, October 28 in Los Angeles and October 31 in San
Francisco.
These should be the first few of a long series of exciting Roky Erickson shows -- stay tuned for more on that.
When we're not playing with Roky, we're working up a whole batch of new
songs, which we hope to record and release soon. You'll be able to hear
these songs
at our Summer Wardrobe shows over the next few months. Don't be shy: let us know what you think about them!
See ya!
Sparkle & Fade' moves up on Triple A radio charts!
Plus, 2 more reviews from the UK.
Category: Music
We're currently up to #143,
37 positions up from last week (#170), thanks to stations like KGSR
107.1 FM as well as KCMV 106.3 and 104.1 FM in Vail/Beaver Creek, CO
where we're #8 in airplay:
KCMV 106.3 and 104.1 FM
1. "Satellite," by Guster
2. "Outlaws," by Los Lonely Boys
3. "Jenny Don't Be Hasty," by Paolo Nutini
4. "Think I'm in Love," by Beck
5. "You're Not Alone," by Jennie Arnau
6. "Tuff Kid," by Shawn Colvin
7. "The Book I Write," by Spoon
8. "Sparkle and Fade," by Summer Wardrobe
9. "Window in the Skies," by U2
10. "Thinking About You," by Norah Jones
11. "Tune is Runaway," by Alternate Routes
12. "Peace Anyway," by Black Crowes
13. "Sing, Theresa Says," by Peter Bradley Adams
14. "One Foot Down," by Peter Adams
15. "Phantom Limb," by the Shins
16. "All the Miles," by Amy Millan
17. "Nothing I Can Do," by Ben Taylor
18. "Revolution," by Derek Trucks Band
19. "Danger," by Eric Clapton
20. "Juniper Rose," by Etiene de Rocher
Top 600 singles, Triple A radio:
http://www.mmr247.com/mmrweb/AllAccess/Charts.asp?format=r1R&showtopn=500&cutoff=1&showyear=y&dpt=n
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http://www.terrascope.co.uk/Reviews/Rumbles_February07.htm
Displaying similar songwriting excellence, although working in a more
country rock tinged field, The Summer Wardrobe have put together a
collection of warm summery tunes with touches of psych-pop and folk adding
to a most satisfying whole. Produced with style by Mark Addison, the sonic
warmth is the perfect vehicle for such songs as the Byrds-like "Sparkle And
Fade", or the rawer garage groove of "Underground". With four songs clocking
in over the seven minute mark, the band have plenty of room for some
slow-burning improvisation, including some exquisite steel guitar work from
John Leon, the sound harmonising beautifully with the rest of the band.
(www.rainbowquartz.com)
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March 7, 2007
Like
Texan psychedelic pioneers the 13th Floor Elevators, Austin-based band
the Summer Wardrobe enjoy melding traditional country instruments into
a heady brew of trippy cerebral soundscapes they like to call "ambient
southern rock". Where the Elevators centred their music on the
rhythmic transcendental whoop of Tommy Hall's one-and-a-half-gallon
aluminium jug, these guys create jangly-psych-pop that surges and
twists around the otherwordly reverberation of John Leon's pedal steel
guitar, accompanied by the breathless tenor vocals of Jon Sanchez and
some astute guitar work. And with a debut album that is conveniently
split down the middle, you are at liberty to choose between a first
half of lush, slow-burning post-psych-guitar gems that call to mind
bands like Lloyd Cole and the Commotions (opener "Ned Kelly") and the
down-under smarts of the Church ("Underground"), or if you're in a more
laid-back mood, the languorous, melodic spells woven by
seven-minute-plus epics that make up the second portion of the disc
such as "Outcry in the Barrio" which evokes Pink Floyd in their early
'70s heyday. A quietly thrilling listen and a hearty howdy from stoner
"country". [PopShop, Amazon.., Amazon UK..]
http://www.popmatters.com/pm/music/shorttakes/P12/
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We love KGSR and Music Director, Susan Castle who recommends our Saturday SXSW showcase as one of her "Picks":
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Pete Townshend's Keynote Address
Charlie Louvin at the Parish at the Convention Center
The Austin Music Awards
Lily Allen at Stubb's
Peter Bjorn and John at La Zona Rosa
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Kate Havnevik at Eternal
Cold War Kids at La Zona Rosa
Any Winehouse at Eternal
Sparklehorse at Antone's
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Thomas Dybdahl at Central Presbyterian Church
James Morrison at La Zona Rosa
The Good, The Bad & The Queen at Stubb's
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The Summer Wardrobe at Latitude 30
JJ Grey & Mofro Opal's
or, Quetzal at Spiro's
Balkan Beat Box at Habana Calle 6
Or, The Bird and The Bee at Eternal
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http://www.kgsr.com/sxsw/index_jocks.aspx
Back home from tour
More great record reviews at home and abroad
LONDON TIMES:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2101-2563101.html
THE SUMMER WARDROBE Four stars
The Summer Wardrobe
Rainbow Quartz RQTZ135
Rainbow Quartz specialises in retro guitar sounds, and Austin's Summer
Wardrobe are a worthy new signing. The quintet suggest a 1970s bar
band,
viewed through a pleasingly distorted prism, and summon up the ghosts
of the
forgotten American acid revivalists the Rain Parade and their country
cousins Dumptruck, combining classicrock shapes with wistful
romanticism.
The opening track, Ned Kelly, maintains a driving momentum despite a
snowstorm of swooning pedal steel. Nine more addictive servings of
lysergic
roots music straddle the 10-minute Outcry in the Barrio, where the
Summer
Wardrobe enter psychedelic snake-charming territory. SL
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ORLANDO SENTINEL:
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment/music/orl-rec19b07jan19,0,3535711.story?coll=orl-calmusictop
MUSIC REVIEW
The Summer Wardrobe: The
Summer Wardrobe (4 stars out of 5)
'Wardrobe' sounds right purty
Jim Abbott | Sentinel Pop Music Critic
Posted January 19, 2007
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There's nothing too complicated about these songs by the Summer
Wardrobe, a five-piece rock band from Austin, Texas.
Guitars, bass, drums, an essential and transcendent thread of pedal
steel guitar. Together, the elements come together into something
that's positively dreamy: part vintage folk pop, part dusty Western
style, part psychedelic rock.
At the heart of this shimmering
self-titled release on Rainbow Quartz (the same label that gave us The
Asteroid No. 4's An Amazing Dream and Outrageous Cherry's Stay Happy)
is Summer Wardrobe's seemingly effortless songwriting. Frontman Jon
Sanchez tosses out melodic hooks as easily as the rest of us breathe.
The opening "Ned Kelly" sounds like a cross between Brill Building pop
and the Box Tops. Or maybe that's just the song's simple melody
reflecting the beautiful sound of chiming guitars and steel guitar.
The latter instrument, handled by band member John Leon, is a
consistent sweetener that separates the Summer Wardrobe from a thousand
other guitar-powered, country-flavored rock bands. Leon's rich sonic
swells blur the pop-country border in "Blind," a pretty, midtempo love
song.
The Summer Wardrobe indulges its rock side on the upbeat
"Sparkle and Fade," which brushes against bubble gum until the chords
take a dirty little twist in the chorus.
If there's a quibble
here, it's the way the band never really sheds the mannered groove of
songs such as "Starball Contribution" and "Underground."
Although the languid, extremely long introduction to the 10-plus
minutes of "Outcry in the Barrio" is beautiful, more punch to balance
the album's mood would have made it better. The crescendo in the middle
of "One More Try" is almost the ticket.
As it is, however, the Summer Wardrobe's gorgeous sound is still mighty
attractive.
jabbott@orlandosentinel.com
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THE WICHITA CITY PAPER
http://www.wichitacitypaper.com/articles/article.179.shtml
By Jedd Beaudoin
jbeaudoin@wichitacitypaper.com
Jan 18, 2007
The Summer Wardrobe—The
Summer Wardrobe
Rainbow Quartz, 2007
Between The Scourge of the Sea and The Summer Wardrobe, mid-'80s
underground pop is in fine hands. Borrowing a page or two from The
Feelies and Lloyd Cole, this fine, subtle quartet adds intriguing
T.Rex-inflected vocals to tracks such as "Sparkle and Fade" and the
absolutely attitudinal "Underground." But there's room to mix up
country colors and space rays ("Redbook" ) and to go surprisingly and
strangely epic on "Outcry in the Barrio," "Daisy Cutter" and "One More
Try." If there's fault to be found with The Summer Wardrobe it may be
that the band's a little too subtle and smart to find an overwhelmingly
welcoming mainstream audience but methinks that the boys know this by
now. Great listening, great record.
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THE DAILY TAR HEEL
http://media.www.dailytarheel.com/media/storage/paper885/news/2007/01/25/Diversions/Summer.Wardrobe.Nicely.Outfitted-2676984.shtml?sourcedomain=www.dailytarheel.com&MIIHost=media.collegepublisher.com
Summer wardrobe nicely outfitted
Issue date:
1/25/07
MUSICREVIEW
The Summer WardrobeThe Summer Wardrobe
3 stars
It seems obvious that a country rock outfit would come out of Austin,
Texas - maybe even cliché.
But
The Summer Wardrobe, with its self-titled effort is worth trying on,
weaving indie rock with fibers of psych-rock and a crying pedal steel.
It's
not a stretch to say the band calls to mind both Whiskeytown and
Portastatic at the same instant with upbeat rock and a glint of country.
The album's opener, "Ned Kelly," is a folk-pop tune named for the
Australian outlaw with catchy pedal steel work from John Leon.
For anyone with a thirst for pedal steel, Leon satisfies it throughout
the duration of The Summer Wardrobe.
From
sleepy acoustic cuts, such as "Redbook," to the rocker "Underground"
and even to the jammy "Outcry in the Barrio," The Summer Wardrobe has
produced an album that is never dull.
Jon Sanchez's guitars
provide both backbone and atmosphere to the album. His vocals are oddly
fitting, even though his voice isn't what one would expect to hear as
the first notes ring out.
The clothing references for The Summer
Wardrobe are seemingly endless, but at the risk of predictability -
this wardrobe fits well. |
