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Bravestation Announce Debut Album

• 21st May 2012

Combining the ambient textures and spaced out guitars of New Wave, with colourful harmonies and tribal percussion, Toronto’s Bravestation achieves a sound that is both immediately familiar and new. Following the 2010 release of their self-recorded/produced EP, the group is back with their debut full-length offering, Giants & Dreamers, to be released on July 10, 2012.

The songwriting and recording process for Giants & Dreamers began over a year ago, with each member capturing ideas in isolation on their home computers; the resulting demos shared in a communal online space for collective sculpting. An invitation to play the main stage at North-East England’s largest music festival, Evolution (alongside Iggy and The Stooges, Two Door Cinema Club & The Kills), opening slots for Tanlines, Yacht, Wintersleep, and Young Empires, and an independent one month tour of the United Kingdom in June 2011, provided the band with a great opportunity to road test the new material in front of new audiences. The group then returned home to Toronto to finish the album in basements, bedrooms and Canterbury Studio.

Coming from the Toronto experimental pop scene, Bravestation first drew attention with their self-titled 2010 EP, of which The Toronto Star wrote, “it’s impossible to disregard the talent and ambition on display in airy, sidewinding mini-epics”. Giants & Dreamers has seen the group dive even deeper into their realm of sonic exploration and imagination, with new material that has a unique complexity – adventurous artistry, filled with visions of fantasy and a future that struggles between dystopia and utopia.