The Walls

On Friday April 1^st, The Walls release their Bird In A Cage EP. The four track EP features two tracks from the forthcoming third album ‘Stop the Lights’, due for release in the autumn, as well as a radio edit of the title song.

Bird in a Cage is an uplifting, powerful piece of music that tells the autobiographical story of a young family moving from Dublin to the west of Ireland and the trials and tribulations along the way. It’s essentially a short story put to music. All of that squeezed into a few minutes of pure pop heaven……..”out of the dark into the light we go“. The song, like the new album, has been in the making for about four years with as many as ten different versions recorded until the band felt they had got it right. Never again they say!

The title track is available now as a FREE DOWNLOAD from www.thewalls.ie and the EP is also available to purchase from i-Tunes as well as the band’s website.

Preview a clip of the song on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sygaWPjqsa0

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ABOUT THE EP TRACKS…

BIRD IN A CAGE
This is The Walls showing that they can still write a killer pop tune with lyrics that tell a real story of growing up in the city and moving to the country and the trials and tribulations along the way.

CHROME HEART
There’s a darker side to the band in evidence on ‘Chrome Heart’ with big guitar riffs to the fore and a Morrissey-like mood stating that “modern life for lifeless souls is a wallet full of plastic and a pocket full of holes”.

ALL A BLUR
Written about a Sunday night out on the town at a time when Monday mornings didn’t matter is the inspiration for ‘All a Blur’. It was often the only night off for many musicians, waitresses and bar staff etc. and could get quite wild. The difficult part was sneaking home in the bright morning light in front of a city on its way to work. Taken from the forthcoming album ‘Stop the Lights’.

THE BIG FREEZE
‘The Big Freeze’ was recorded live in the studio using just two microphones. It was basically a jam that turned out so good it was used as the final version. Paul G.Smyth of Dublin band The Jimmy Cake added the gold dust to it in the shape of some unique synthesizer melodies.