Katie Malco - Ventricles (free download) by Alcopop! Records

- Set to release Tearing Ventricles EP on September 30th on 12”
- Lead single ‘Ventricles’ up for free download today
- Set to tour throughout July with special limited tour edition of the forthcoming EP
- Planned split and shows with Jonah Matranga for later in the year

"An undeniably pretty voice...." Rock Sound Magazine
"Talent is her middle name" - BBC Introducing
"...you’re left with little option than to just sit back and sigh. That, and to listen to it all over again of course. 8/10" GoldFlakePaint
"Katie Malco has updated folklore for a modern audience." Punktastic
"....eagerly anticipated by the ears and eyes of Indie Britain." The 405
“Katie Malco plays a right-handed guitar upside down but this shouldn't worry you” DIY

Taking a darker soul-searching route since her wonderful EP Katie Malco & The Slow Parade on Alcopop! Records back in 2011 (The Slow Parade), Katie Malco is back with the undoubted highlight of her career so far – her new EP Tearing Ventricles.

Lilting heavy piano accompaniment with soaring vocals that effortlessly evoke a whole diorama of emotions, this is brave new territory for the girl who flippantly describes herself as ‘Pop music for people that don't like JLS and so on’ – and yet the music itself speaks far more than any lazy metaphor could describe in a press release.

One of many highlights, the complex EP ends with a breathtaking cover of hardcore band Pariso’s Mystifier. Lead single Ventricles is available as a free download today – from Soundcloud and Bandcamp. The tour version of the new EP (backed with her last EP Katie Malco & The Slow Parade as B-side) is available from the Alcopop! Store (www.ilovealcopop.co.uk) now on limited edition red 12” with postcard inserts.

In Katie’s words; “Over the year I lived in Brixton, I wrote an EP’s worth of songs on the piano, each song marking a different turn in the year – endings and beginnings. I decided to go into the studio and record everything live. Producer Jamie Field (Tubelord, Tall Ships) and I went to my old University in Kingston where there’s a huge live room and a Steinway grand piano. We went in, mic’d up, I sat down and played the songs live in full takes. In around 12 hours I had completely exhausted myself and also recorded an EP – Tearing Ventricles.”

TOUR:
July 16 The Belted Galloway Newton Stewart, Scotland
July 17 Opium Edinburgh
July 20 Carefully Planned Manchester
July 21 Arena Galleries and Studios Liverpool
July 22 Gaslight Club at Oporto Leeds
July 23 Labour Club Northampton
July 24 Fools Paradise at Catch Shoreditch, London
July 25 Frog and Fiddle Cheltenham
July 26 The Gallimaufry Bristol
July 27 Café Irie Newquay
July 28 Live Bar Truro

For more information, contact jack@ilovealcopop.co.uk