• Release Date: 23 January 2012 | iTunes | Bandcamp
  • Label: Boompa / WP HQ
  • Notes: A new digital-only EP to celebrate 2012, and things to come... Artwork by Elyron.
  • “My own growing up in Canada was marked with annual family holidays involving the long drive from Point A to Point B – particularly far for us, given our home city of Calgary right in the middle of the beautiful never-ending golden expanse that is the Prairies. My parents were always the type to find an artist and album they liked and then listen to it non-stop in the car for years. It’s these tapes which, whether I liked them at the time or not, formed an undeniable part of my musical DNA: Carole King, Falco, a truck-stop Hits of the 1960s compilation.
  • The songs of the For Paolo EP are a valentine of sorts to those old cassettes of my parents – I’d like to think there’s more than just a dash of Fleetwood Mac’s Tango in the Night in the title track, a little bit of girly one-hit wonder in ‘One To Many’. But then again, whenever I think I’m getting pretty close at sounding one way, I’m the only one who hears it – so you’ll have to excuse the thought that there’s a little bit of Boys Don’t Cry’s ‘I Wanna Be a Cowboy’ and Iron Butterfly mixed in here somewhere too.”

  • Credits:

    ALL SONGS + LYRICS by Mark Andrew of the Hamiltons


    PRODUCED BY Mark Andrew of the Hamiltons (6), Terence Deutsch (1), Shelley Uprichard (2, 3), Jonathan Hong (5), and Tyler "Pink Drinks" Fitzsimmons (5)

    RECORDED IN Calgary (Studio 827), the Banff Centre (Luscar Studio), and New York City (The Buddy Project)


    THE CAST Mark Andrew of the Hamiltons, Clea Foofat (1, 5), Kenna Burima (1), Brock Geiger (1, 5), Chris "The Glimmer" Dadge (1), Ryan Doyle (5), Arran Fisher (5), Tyler "Pink Drinks" Fitzsimmons (3, 5), Laura Leif (2), Lucie Laricq (2), Cliodhna Ryan (2), Scott Benson (2).