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Trashcan Sinatras - In The Music is due for release on 14th September.

Trashcan Sinatras – In The Music is due for release on 14th September

Trashcan Sinatras  (formerly known as The Trash Can Sinatras) are a Scottish band that was formed in Irvine, Scotland in 1986. The year after they were signed to Go! Discs and became labelmates with The Beautiful South, a band they were often compared to along with The Smiths and Morrissey.

In 1990 Trashcan Sinatras eventually released their debut album, Cake.  It featured their biggest hit single, Obscurity Knocks, along with the singles Only Tongue Can Tell and Circling the Circumference. Though by 1990 critics and music lovers were looking to the dance rock crossover sound of The Stone Roses and Primal Scream and though Trashcan Sinatras continued to receive cult success through the 1990s, their music was seen by some as ‘out of time’.

After more than two decades and four studio albums – Cake, I’ve Seen Everything, A Happy Pocket and 2004’s Weightlifting Trashcan Sinatras are about to release their fifth studio album In The Music on 14th September 2009 through Lo-Five Records.

“Its five years since Weightlifting came out, we toured it for two years, then we started coming back down to earth. Mostly we’ve been just writing and playing.” says vocalist and rhythm guitarist John Douglas.

In The Music features 10 new tracks full of great pop harmonies and a recognisable Trashcan Sinatra sound; and includes Should I Pray which features Carly Simon duetting with Frank Reader.

Comparisons with The Smiths and Morrissey are still prevalent, due to Reader’s vocal style and is no more obvious than on the title track of the new album, In The Music.

The songs were set to arrangements in a back room in the South Side of Glasgow over the summer of 2007, and recorded in New York in the winter in 2007/08.

“The idea to record in New York came up, and it was brilliant. We love that town,” says John Douglas. “The first time we went there we played CBGBs and it was fantastic. That would have been around 1990, when we were just wee boys. We hadn’t really toured in Scotland, just a few shows, and the record got played in the States so we went there.”

The smooth, laid back, easy listening sound of the Trashcan Sinatras and  In The Music may well still be as ‘out of time’ in 2009 as it was in 1990.  But for those wishing to hear a beautiful album rather than the latest ‘in thing‘, In The Music may well just hit the spot and is well worth a listen.

For more information visit the Trashcan Sinatras MySpace page or www.trashcansinatras.com