Guineafowl – ‘In Our Circles’ (mp3)
So General Pants Co. are launching a monthly singles club record label starting with entries for Guineafowl, Circle Pit and High Highs in March. This shouldn’t seem like too much of a surprise to anyone who’s shopped in General Pants over summer and has likely been greeted with the line, “hey, you going to [insert next music festival] this weekend?” from the floor staff and pumping indie remixes over the speakers. I don’t know whether it’s actually written in their staff manual to try and connect with customers via music, but it’s certainly something that they’ve been successfully pushing of late.
But moving past the oversized singlets and undersized jeans, GP have actually collected some cool tracks up first. Circle Pit have been getting some mad props elsewhere on the internets, and we’ve already featured Guineafowl on whothehell.net before. While I think his previous track ‘Botanist’ was slightly better, ‘In Our Cirlces’ is still a nifty pop song with the same quirky edge to his electro-acoustic workouts.
www.generalpants.com.au/majorlabel
March 3, 2010 4:49 pm
” I don’t know whether it’s actually written in their staff manual to try and connect with customers via music, but it’s certainly something that they’ve been successfully pushing of late.”
It actually is. General Pants staff are essentially going to trained as A&R people.
March 4, 2010 10:24 pm
wow, is this an insider tip?
according to the press release, general pants staff are already a&r guys since they supposedly chose all the releases this month. which is surprising since the tracks are a pretty different to what they pimp through their instore sound system.