Melbourne, Australia psych rock quartet, Pretty City have released “Flying,” the newest single off of their upcoming LP, Cancel the Future, out March 23rd. The track is available for streaming & purchase now on Soundcloud, Spotify, Apple Music, and iTunes. Listen to it now below.
Pretty City has since seen impressive radio success in the U.S. over the past 2 years, reaching as high as #70 on the CMJ charts with their album Colorize in 2016. The band also made several appearances at Canadian Music Week in 2017, and is currently gearing up for a 27-day European tour, along with an appearance at this year’s SXSW.
The making of Cancel The Future was a tumultuous time for the band, constant touring and international focus had taken a toll. And pressures to outdo their last album made for creative differences to boil over. Personal relationships and lives creeping into the process only made matters worse as songs were recorded, re-recorded and scrapped again. In fact, more than a whole album was finished and scrapped all together, to be started again from scratch.
By the end of the process, the band had come full circle musically and emotionally. The motto, Cancel The Future, was the album title from early in the process. Taken from a lyric of a song it was meant initially to symbolise the optimism and bravado about being able to write your own future by changing your now. By the end of the year that motto still rang true but was more of a reflection on the band’s strength to essentially “cancel their futures” by scrapping whole albums with no plan in sight, to then start again from the ground up and still enjoy music creation and performance. Cancel The Future is thus a combination of frustration, exuberance, confidence and introspection. And it speaks louder than the band could have realized when starting the process.
Fans can expect more new music from Pretty City in March, including their new LP Cancel The Future, slated for release on 3/23. For more on Pretty City, be sure to follow them on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.