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Cloud Control have been added to rotation on BBC Radio 6 after Steve Lamacq added them to his Rebel Playlist. Listeners were able to email in and vote for which track they would like to see added. The people spoke and Gold Canary took out the title!

This has come after The Passport Label released Gold Canary as a 7” in the UK (available on pre-order now).

In addition to being added to rotation on BBC Radio 6, Gold Canary has been made single of the week on Drowned In Sound and single of the month on Subba Cultcha. Some really positive reviews have also been posted. Check ‘em out:

SINGLE OF THE WEEK ON DROWNED IN SOUND
“Cloud Control have a done a great, big, wonderful, many-bitted thing, so it is to their enormous credit that ‘Gold Canary’ is such a balmy, tender delight. From the sea-shanty, impossibly warm man-vocals that start it, to the psych-out at 01:30 in, to the yelps one cannot help singing along with, everything in this single works. You know, even if you get nose to nose with it and can see its gaping pores.”

SINGLE OF THE MONTH ON SUBBA-CULTCHA.COM
“A gorgeously complex mix of sounds and influences – choral chanting builds up whilst one of the most delicate and sumptuous melodies pours over it, the primal beat inspiring mass hand claps and whilst it doesn’t break a sweat to get your attention, the quixotic mix of ideas will certainly not leave you unmoved!”

From RECORD COLLECTOR (March 2010, Issue 373)
“File this Aussie combo somewhere between Animal Collective’s Beach Boys spin and the sophisticated pop shenanigans of The Shins… Gold Canary sports a psychedelic chant stomp that wouldn’t seem out of place on AC’s Merriweather Post Pavilion, unpeeling close harmonies like Panda Bear’s exquisite Person Pitch set, all brought together with a splash of bubbly antipodean charm.”

SCORED 8/10 ON THIS IS FAKE DIY

”Tribal chanting, shrieking and whooping provide the backdrop for singer Alister Wright’s raw and imperfectly honest voice on the new single from Sydney songsters Cloud Control. Prepare to be hypnotized as low male voices, a steady drumbeat and intermittent handclaps that wouldn’t have been out of place on the Lion King soundtrack transport you to another world. You can just envision enrobed African men shifting and swaying on the red ground – that is, until rocky electric guitars erupt into the tune from nowhere and jolt you out of the daydream. It’s a weird yet surprisingly pleasant sensation: several different influences are at work here that shouldn’t really fit together, but the combination is mesmerizing.”