For Immediate Release

MINIATURE TIGERS

WITH SPECIAL GUEST THE GRISWOLDS

July 23, 2014 in The Nether Bar at Mill City Nights

Event Details: Miniature Tigers with The Griswolds

Venue: The Nether Bar at Mill City Nights

Show Date/Time: Wednesday, July 23 at 8:30pm. Doors 8pm. Ages 18+

GA Tickets: $12 ($14 DOS)

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The sound is important but nothing is more important than the feeling of the sound. When Charlie Brand (vocals, guitar) was writing the newest Miniature Tigers record, he looked to the sum of his musical influences for inspiration. I wanted to make something like Weezers Blue Albumnot exactly the album, but the feeling of listening to that album at age whatever. Something with that feeling that could connect with people. Thats how the band had started, after all: When he and founding member Rick Schaier (keys) connected over Myspace in the mid-00s through their love of the same bands. After a few albums, they brought on Algernon Quashie (guitar) and Brandon Lee (bass) to complete the band.

The resulting record, Cruel Runnings, is something halfway between nostalgia and the ecstatic now, an album that yearns for the recent past while staring open-hearted at what the present dares to bring. Songs about swimming pools remembered on sticky summer nights, lovers meeting at discotheques, streets where you used to live. Lets just try to be as much of us as possible, Brand decided during the recording process. In that, Miniature Tigers have written a record thats eminently relatable, passionate but not without a healthy sense of perspective. Recorded in Jamaica with producer Chris Zane (The Walkmen, Passion Pit) the album sounds as freeing as the process felt. There was just a different energy there, a different energy in such a relaxing environment, he says. Everything came very naturally. Thats fitting of a record where Brand wanted to capture the way a relationshipand through that, lifereally felt. Not necessarily something that was good and got bad, he says, but the ups and downs of it.