CITY REIGN – Daybreak single
aaamusic | On 18, Oct 2011
For the four members of CITY REIGN – Chris Bull (vocals, guitar), Michael Grice (guitar), Glaze (bass) & Sam Jones (Drums) – Numbers For Street Names is the culmination of 3 years of dedication and hard work, from the first days of teaching Glaze to play his £30 battered bass from ebay, rehearsing in the spare bedroom of their shared house, resulting in this comprehensive body of work. The record features songs spanning from their initial demo Daybreak EP to the closing track recorded a mere day before pressing the CD.
Time has been spent perfecting their songcraft and musicianship to rework older songs whilst continually writing newer material. The band’s focus has always been to let the music and lyrics speak for the band better than anything else.
Since recording the EP, Sam Jones has decided to pursue other projects outside music and has since been replaced with the fiery Scottish powerhouse Duncan Bolton who studied at the Royal Northern College of Music.
The EP includes their first single ‘Making Plans’, which caught the attention of BBC6Music’s Steve Lamacq upon its release in October 2010, as well as ‘Out In The Cold’, which received a raving recommendation from The Independent when it was released earlier this year.
‘We’re extremely proud of these 5 songs. It’s a good mix of the punchier pop songs like the singles Making Plans and Out In The Cold, alongside bigger ‘anthemic’ songs like The Line. It closes nicely with a new song called Anywhere Anyway recorded at the 11th hour that we knew instantly had to close the record. Although the song is stripped back, the vocal layers give it depth and shows the attention to detail we put into everything we do says singer Chris Bull.
The band is due to promote the record with dates both nationally and internationally with a string of dates.
‘We’ve made a lot of friends from all over the place through releasing the first few singles. We were keen to get out and meet these people and play our songs live, so we’re really looking forward to these dates.’
Numbers For Street Names will be released on the bands own label Car Boot Records on CD and digital Download. It will be available to pre-order from the band’s brand new website www.cityreign.net from 1st October.
Numbers For Street Names Tracklisting:
- Making Plans
- Sleep Easy
- The Line
- Out In The Cold
- Anywhere Anyway
Tour Dates
- Nov 5th – CC Muziekcafe – Amsterdam
- Nov 12th – The Bay – Glasgow
- Nov 15th – West Street Live – Sheffield
- Nov 19th – Bull & Gate – Camden, London
- Nov 26th – Gullivers – Manchester
- Dec 3rd – The Live Lounge, Blackburn
The Independent
Fans of Yuck and Dinosaur Jr will approve of City Reign’s anthemic, grunge. A million failing garage bands will ask why
M.E.N
Murky guitar atmospherics, emote an almighty passion and power
Music Week
“This independence of mind can be heard in their driving guitar rock sound, unphased by suggestions that the guitar band is destined for the musical scrap heap”
Shout4Music
The Manchester-based band’s third single manages to hit all the right notes. One’s to Watch 9/10
