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Stanley Odd Announce Details Of New Album 'Reject'

• 16th Aug 2012

Stanley Odd are pleased to announce their second album, 'Reject', will be released on 17 September 2012 on digital download and CD.

The twelve track offering features single 'Get Out Ma Headspace' which was released as a free download in June, received a great reception from critics and garnered over 2000 Youtube views in little over a month. The single can still be downloaded for free from the band's website link <link>

To support the album release, the band will embark on a UK wide tour, taking in some of their biggest headline shows to date. The Scottish leg of the tour is detailed below, with the rest of the UK dates to follow in the coming weeks. You can also catch Stanley Odd at a handful of remaining summer festivals including:

Sat 04 Aug – Belladrum Festival, Inverness
Sat 25 Aug – Greenbelt Festival, Cheltenham

2012 Tour (more to be announced …)

Fri 24 Aug – London, Bull And Gate
Fri 14 Sep – Aberdeen, The Lemon Tree
Thu 20 Sep – Glasgow, Stereo
Fri 21 Sep – Edinburgh, Liquid Room
Sat 22 Sep – Inverness, Ironworks
Thu 27 Sep – London, Bull And Gate

Stanley Odd are an Edinburgh based alternative hip-hop band suffusing live instrumentation with samples and loops. Formed in 2009, they released their debut album, ‘Oddio’ the following year to critical acclaim across a host of respected media, with Scotland on Sunday stating: “These Scottish hip-hop standard bearers sound much more relevant than the mighty Eminem, rapping stories that are social realism with a sense of humour and dance shoes”.

During 2011, the band released three EPs, Pure Antihero Material, The Day I Went Deaf and A Motley Assortment of Things, showcasing a darker, more direct sound that reflects their creative production methods involving writing and recording as a live band, re-sampling their own recordings and then sequencing and rebuilding the sampled material.

Equally potent in the live environment, Stanley Odd have been touring throughout the UK since 2010, supporting acts such as Arrested Development, Sage Francis and Goldie Looking Chain, and performing at a broad range of key Scottish festivals including T in the Park and Edinburgh's Hogmanay Street Party. Their 2011 performance at Insider Festival was described in The Scotsman as ‘dazzlingly eloquent… a performance that had the crowd baying delightedly for more.’

Ending 2011 on a high with a rap-special live session on national Radio One BBC Introducing alongside Smiler, Merky ACE, Lioness, Madhat McGore and Kobi Onyame, 2012 has already started with a bang, playing at a sold out O2 ABC as part of Celtic Connections Festival in January as well as high-energy performances at a host of Summer Festivals.