Glasto Rising Expertise winners Westside Cowboy announce debut EP ‘This Higher Be One thing Nice’ with the joyous ‘Alright Alright Alright’

This 12 months’s Glastonbury Rising Expertise Competitors winners Westside Cowboy have introduced particulars of their debut EP ‘This Higher Be One thing Nice’ by sharing the joyous ‘Alright Alright Alright’.

Again in April, the Manchester-based four-piece and NME 100 alumni received a spot at this 12 months’s Glastonbury pageant once they had been triumphant over 1000's of on-line entries earlier than beating eight finalists on the reside closing in Pilton – impressing a judging panel that included an array of Glasto stage bookers in addition to DJ Huw Stephens and pageant bosses Michael and Emily Eavis.

Earlier ETC finalists embody the likes of English Trainer, Flohio, Declan McKenna, She Drew The Gun, Scouting For Ladies, The Subways and Izzy Bizu.

Now, after a string of releases and impressing at showcase festivals together with this 12 months’s Nice Escape, the indie upstarts have introduced that ‘This Higher Be One thing Nice’ will arrive on Friday August 8 by way of Good Swan Recordings / Heist or Hit (pre-order here) – in addition to sharing the rollicking single ‘Alright Alright Alright’, produced by Lewis Whiting of 2024 Mercury Prize winners English Trainer. The music has a gun-slinging power and imagery befitting of the band’s title.

“This music was the primary authentic factor we ever performed as a band, earlier than we had any actual ambition for the undertaking to succeed in the ears of anybody exterior of that room,” stated the band of the observe. “It's a punk music a couple of cowboy, and if anybody can take away any extra from it than that, think about us impressed.”

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The band’s sound – impressed by the likes of slacker rock giants like Pavement alongside extra up to date influences like Good Swan labelmates English Trainer – received a £5,000 PRS slot and earned the band a slot on the enduring Woodsies Stage at this 12 months’s pageant again in Spring. Talking on these influences, singer Aoife Anson O’Connell defined the band are humbled by comparisons to such large names.

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“Reuben (Haycocks vocals / guitars ) and Paddy (Murphy, drums) shaped their first band due to their love for Pavement,” O’Connell instructed NME. “All of us noticed them collectively and so they’re an enormous affect for us. Even travelling down within the automobile we had a whole lot of The Flaming Lips on the playlist, so we channel a whole lot of these cool guitar sounds however hopefully we carry one thing of our personal as properly.”

Westside Cowboy will open the Woodsies Stage on Sunday June 20, with three different performances scheduled throughout the weekend. Alongside a busy summer season of exhibits, additionally they have assist excursions approaching with Black Nation, New Highway and Blondshell kicking off in September. Visit here for tickets and extra info.