Recitals - I GOT GOLD! EP (Pre-Order)

**** Pre-order available now. Vinyl EP due late November — we will keep this listing updated! ****

Supergroup Recitals are returning to our world to gift you their sophomore release, I GOT GOLD!. The new EP is a collection of songs, old and new, set in an alternate reality, a private joke universe, translated to the best of their ability. The EP is dynamic and imaginary, a love letter to each other and Te Whanganui-A-Tara, where their friendship and project was born. I GOT GOLD! is due for digital release on Friday September 27 via Flying Nun Records, and followed by a limited vinyl run due at the end of November this year.

Boasting five incredible tracks, I GOT GOLD! was recorded at The Surgery in Newtown. It was produced, engineered and mixed by James Goldsmith and mastered by Tom Healy.

Recitals emerged during 2020; seven 20-somethings attempting to find a place amidst a world seemingly turned on its head. After a string of singles released and a few live appearances in Te Whanganui-A-Tara, Recitals released their debut album Orbit I via Flying Nun Records in 2022. Recitals have been praised for their unique and genre-bending sound, with Princess Chelsea noting their music as “equal parts dreamy, dirge, chaotic, refined, heavy and soft - a glittering throwback to a bygone era”. The band have appeared at festivals such as Camp A Low Hum, Cuba Dupa and Newtown Festival, and were nominated for Te Tohu Kohinga Mariu (Favourite Album) and Te Rōpū Mariu (Favourite Group) at the Student Radio Network Awards in 2022. The members of Recitals now reside across three continents, each of them pursuing life and music, coming together for serendipitous music making and performance every blue moon.

Recitals are Tharushi, Carla, Sam, Olivia, Christian, Josh and Xanthe - the poster children for band democracy; achieved through relentless message chains and long distance calls. 

First single, 'Champion Runner' indulges in an alternative universe of sports and championship. With Sha’Carri Richardson in mind, the song plays on metaphors of winning and losing, and being an underdog in the grand race of life, informing the EP title I GOT GOLD!. Emotional and theatrical, the song playfully balances melancholy with lightness. Each instrument marches towards an epic ending as the band members shout with expert teamwork. The trumpet soars over the grand finale and an eerie sense of celebration hovers over the end of the EP’s journey. 

I GOT GOLD! TRACKLIST

1.     Dinner Song

2.     CGI Airport

3.     Sunflower

4.     Wellington Song

5.     Champion Runner