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PARCELS
release new live session
‘FREE’

(LIVE FROM THE SILVERTON HOTEL)

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Photo – Mia Rankin

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Today Parcels share the new live music video for current single ‘Free’.

The clip was filmed in Wilyakali, Australia. The Wilyakali or Wiljaali are an Australian aboriginal tribal group of the Darling River basin in Far West New South Wales, Australia. Their traditional lands centred on the towns of Broken Hill and Silverton and surrounding country. Playing live at the Silverton Hotel all started with a phone call between drummer Anatole and a man who introduced himself as Peter Price.

Keyboardist Louie Swain had gathered a list of places to check out on the band’s ambitious outback trip being filmed for a future documentary (more info to follow).  The band explains,  “Silverton was high on the list.  Population 50, Silverton is small town hosting only a couple of dusty streets, a few donkeys, a pub, a bakery, and endless desert surroundings. On the fifth phone call Anatole finally reached Peter, owner of the Silverton Hotel. He didn’t really understand why we wanted to come, or how we were going to make it that far inland, but said we were welcome and that ‘he’d believe it when he saw it’. What we didn’t understand over the phone, or from the Google images, was the calming pace and kind-hearted spirit which the town exudes. Driving away on that dusty road we couldn’t shake the feeling that the people of Silverton are as close to feeling ‘Free’ as people might ever be.”

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Parcels are from surf hotspot Byron Bay in Australia, but the band has been holed up in grimy nightlife utopia Berlin for years. The twentysomethings stand out amid the current musical landscape: five dudes who look like they’ve stepped out of a postcard from 1970s California, all flares, moustaches and shaggy hair; a classic band for atypical times.

The band produced ‘Free’ themselves, with mixing courtesy of James Ford – producer for bands including Arctic Monkeys, Depeche Mode, and Florence and The Machine. Orchestral arrangements are by Owen Pallett, the Oscar-nominated, GRAMMY-winning composer and musician who has notably worked with Arcade Fire among others.

Parcels is guitarist/vocalist Jules Crommelin, keyboardist Louie Swain, keyboardist/guitarist Patrick Hetherington, bassist Noah Hill and drummer Anatole ‘Toto’ Serret. To date they’ve amassed over 350 million streams, 100,000 album sales worldwide, cross-continental tours, shows with French royalty Phoenix and Air, a US TV debut on Conan O’Brien, a Coachella slot and a debut single that was produced by none other than Daft Punk.  Pitchfork took notice of their “slick grooves inspired by the hi-fi funk of 1970’s AM radio,” Stereogum said, “Parcels make some incessantly groovy tunes,” Paste raved the band is “tremendous fun” and “truly doesn’t sound like anything else happening in music today,” and NME called the band, “cheeky, timeless and devilishly fun.” 

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‘FREE’ IS OUT NOW
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