PARCELS
announce live album
‘LIVE VOL. 1’
A LIVE-STUDIO ALBUM OUT APRIL 30
via Kitsuné / Because Music / Caroline Australia
+ SHARE VIDEO FOR 9-MINUTE ALBUM CUT
“IKNOWHOWIFEEL”
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Australian-born, Berlin-based Parcels announces the release of an in-studio live album, Live Vol. 1, set for release April 30th via Kitsuné / Because Music / Caroline Australia. In advance of the full-length project, the band has released the live cut and video of the standout album track “IknowhowIfeel” as an EP surrounded by two previously unreleased and crowd favourite transitions, “Redline” and “Elude.”
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Recorded live to tape and mixed on a hardware console at the legendary Hansa Studio in Berlin, Live Vol. 1’s 18 songs feature everything fans love about Parcels. A generous offering, filled to the brim with the band’s hit songs, with a heightened live feel, and those experimentations and glorious transitions which give their performances a unique touch.
“For us two years ago, this idea was the perfect bookend to the debut album. A lush 24 track tape recording of all the album songs being performed in a classic studio,” explains Parcels. “Surprisingly it still feels like a good idea now, which never really happens unless it’s the right thing to do.”
The video’s director, Carmen Crommelin, speaks to the power of simplicity on her approach to the visuals, “The magic of Parcels needs no added narrative if you’re lucky enough to witness them in creation. I wanted the camera to be both passive and intimate, so you could politely observe from a distance and walk through the room like a friend.”
Parcels’ music is never more powerful than in those fleeting, singular moments where uncertainty is met with adrenaline. Jules Crommelin, Noah Hill, Louie Swain, Patrick Hetherington and Anatole Serret — all of them singers and multi-instrumentalists — are ambitious, dedicated virtuosos with effortless vocal harmonies and relentless musical explorations.
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Like many across the globe, Parcels has been in lockdown due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Band members have shared instrumental tutorials for “IknowhowIfeel” so to continue connecting with their audience in their own unique way. The response has been overwhelming with many of their fans sharing videos of themselves jamming along to the track which the band have reposted.
Following two EPs — Clockscaredet and Hideout — and “Overnight,” a celebrated single produced by Daft Punk, Europe’s coolest Australians, Parcels, won everyone over with their brilliant self-titled debut album. Their music balances light and darkness — infectious groove-based rhythms are often set against melancholy lyrics. With an unanimously acclaimed first album under their belt, these five fashionable boys have sailed the seven seas, touring their music from Brussels to Tokyo, and playing such venues as Rock en Seine and the legendary Coachella.
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Parcels – Live Vol. 1
Album out April 30 via Kitsuné / Because Music / Caroline Australia
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