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“A soundtrack for parties gone awry.”

That’s the concept behind Free Blood. Madeleine Davy and John Pugh make “Music to fuel awkward sexual dalliances, desperate yelled misunderstandings on the dance floor, toilets over-flowing with the night’s collective regurgitation, lonesome midnight ramblings, stereo components fried by heat and moisture, backyard furniture bonfires, power outages, mass hallucinations, etc.”

Their musical philosophy is compounded in their single Royal Family with the line, “Why don’t we do it?” echoing over and over. The ACTH remix turns the trip into a bit of a tribal stomper too - juxtaposed against haunting cello stabs, acid tweakery, and boom sonics.

MP3: Free Blood - Royal Family (ACTH remix)

Free Blood have been booked to support Hot Chip in the US, and over seas with Holy Fuck:

Mar 28 – Barcelona Nitsa Club
Mar 29 – Paris Le Showcase
Mar 31 – London Durr @ The End
Apr 01 – Bristol Thekla
Apr 02 - Manchester @ Night & Day
Apr 03 - Birmingham @ Barfly
Apr 04 - Liverpool @ Korova
Apr 05 - Glasgow @ Stereo
Apr 06 - Norwich @ Arts Centre
Apr 07 - Brighton @ Digital
Apr 08 - London @ 100 Club

http://www.myspace.com/freeblood

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The strings in that track made me a bit nostalgic for the string machine gun fire of Aphex Twin.