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CMU Approved
Approved: Miniature Tigers – Gold Skull
By Andy Malt | Published on Tuesday 18 May 2010
Brooklyn quartet Miniature Tigers have announced that they will release their second album, ‘Fortress’, in the US on 27 Jul via Warner Music/Independent Label Group/Modern Art. The follow-up to their 2008 debut ‘Tell It To The Volcano’, production on most of the new record is handled by Morning Benders frontman Chris Chu, though the first single, ‘Gold Skull’, available now as a free download from Stereogum, was handled by Alan Palomo, aka Neon Indian.
Palomo’s involvement brings something very different to the Miniature Tigers sound. Relentlessly upbeat indie-pop still underpins it, but ‘Gold Skull’ is washed in blinking synths that sound like the soundtrack to a montage of daily life in some future city – cars hover past, tiny robots attempt to sell you newspapers. Meanwhile, frontman Charlie Brand sings only to you, oblivious to the bustle of life around him.
stereogum.com/372622/miniature-tigers-gold-skull-stereogum-premiere/
