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White Arrows: Listen To Roll Forever

• 10th May 2012

White Arrows have just released their new song Roll On Forever on SoundCloud and YouTube for you to hear. The track is the opener on their upcoming debut album Dry Land Is Not A Myth.

The White Arrows story begins with a blind boy. Singer Mickey Church was born seeing the world as an impressionistic smear. His vision was righted at age 11, but his imagination ran wild for the intervening years. Since he couldn't make out those around him, he assumed they couldn't see him either. He rode made-up horses and sung songs that didn't exist. His memory of growing up in L.A. is confined to smells, sounds and swaths of fuzzy color. Mickey's father, a student of African percussion, encouraged him and his little brother Henry to pick up instruments as kids, so they played what was around. With family back east, Mickey eventually left for NYU, and unexpectedly wound up with a degree in shamanistic ritual.

Mickey's studies led him to examine the thin line that separates genius from insanity in art, and inspired him to create music that blurred familiar borders. In a Bowery basement, he made what would become the White Arrows EP-demos that took on new life once he returned home. Soon, Henry picked up the sticks. Their old friend J.P. Caballero joined on guitar, with Andrew Naeve on keys and beats, and Steven Vernet on bass.

Since last late last year the band have been holed up in L.A.'s canyon country recording the songs that will make up their debut LP. Inspired by RAC's propulsive dance mix of their angular banger, they challenged the Portland remix geniuses to produce the entire White Arrows album. RAC agreed, and the fruits of their labours are beginning to emerge with Roll Forever, the kaleidoscopic tracks pits Mickey's transcendent croon against a bursting blend of elements both organic and electronic

Catch White Arrows at the following UK tour dates:

Thursday 10th May — Brighton — Great Escape Festival
Friday 11th May — London — Koko (Club NME)
Friday 18th May — Liverpool — Sound City Festival
Saturday 19th May — Glasgow — Stag & Dagger
Monday 21st May — Bristol — O2 Academy (w/ White Denim)
Tuesday 22nd May — London — HMV Forum (w/ White Denim)
Wednesday 23rd May — Manchester — Ritz (w/ White Denim)
Thursday 24th May — Leeds — Cockpit (w/ White Denim)

White Arrows ◊ Roll Forever by WHITEARROWS