Sad Day For Puppets - New AA Side + Nov 09 Tour

Swedish indie-poppers Sad Day For Puppets return with a double A-side single and a UK tour supporting A Place To Bury Strangers. When You Tell Me That You Love Me/ Withering Petals And Dust are brand new re-recordings of two tracks from their acclaimed debut album Unknown Colors. The single will be available as a limited edition seven-inch and download on Sonic Cathedral, full details of live dates are below.

We've learned a lot about the Puppets since we first came across them and released their single Marble Gods - a former 6Music record of the week and included on the forthcoming 'Rough Trade Shops Indie-Pop 09' compilation - back in March. For instance Blackeberg, the Stockholm satellite town they hail from, is the setting for the creepy vampire book and film 'Let The Right One In'. Their unusual band name comes not from a Swedish kids' TV show as they claimed, but from an episode of The West Wing, which explains the amount of news stories about goings on in Congress that our Google Alert throws up. Perhaps most importantly, they're not the daisy-chain-making, cardigan-wearing titans of twee we thought they were - it turns out that songwriter Martin Källholm is more inspired by the no-nonsense rock of Cheap Trick, Thin Lizzy, Kiss and Aerosmith (and we're not even talking early Toxic Twins-era, either, but 'Pump').
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