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New Video From White Arrows

• 29th Mar 2012

White Arrows have just unveiled their new video for Get Gone, originally released last year as part of a split 7inch. White Arrows are re-releasing the track along with 'Coming Or Going' and 'Fireworks Of The Sea' to make up the 'Fireworks Of The Sea EP' which is out digitally on 9th April on Votiv.

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, “Coming Or Going,” they challenged the Portland remix geniuses to produce the entire White Arrows album. RAC agreed, and the first fruits of their labours come via the 'Fireworks Of The Sea' EP in April, the kaleidoscopic tracks pits Mickey's transcendent croon against a bursting blend of elements both organic and electronic.