Manchester’s Dantevilles have released their new EP ‘Welcome To The Theatre’.
The EP release marked the next stage of the band’s career in more ways than one as they unveiled their new honed in sound.
We’re big fans of Dantevilles at LMLL, with the guys landing 4 previous TOTDs, including recent release ‘Fool For You’.
With their new EP out now, we caught up with Dantevilles to discover which bands and tracks influenced them when working on the EP.
Speaking of the influence behind the release, the band explained: “As a band, we never set out writing our songs with an influence in mind, we have the idea to begin with and forge the song into how we want it to sound.”
With that in mind, Dantevilles share 5 tracks that reflect the songs on ‘Welcome To The Theatre’.
Arctic Monkeys – Pretty Visitors
This track played a huge part in the additional and overall sound on ‘Soundscape.’ It’s fair to say the whole album and it’s eerie atmosphere definitely inspired the juxtaposed sound from verse to chorus to outro and so on with this track. To match the power of this song is a hard task, to say the least, but the tenacious power we recorded this song with, really shines (or forcefully pushes) though.
The Stone Roses – Fools Gold
Can you name a more iconic, popping bass line to introduce a song? Everyone has their own taste, so you probably can, but ‘Save Me A Dance’ all began from the groove on the bass, as does the influence track.
The Beautiful South – A Song For Whoever
More the lyrics that influenced the romance within the story than the song itself, with an endearing kind of love, but surrounded in wit.
Foals – Sunday
Throughout the track, with the half-beat stomp, this influenced the style of the chorus including the dream-like falsetto hook spreading the message that the truth hurts in ‘Confession’. Even all the way to the Outro, ‘Sunday’ played a massive part in where we could go and influenced the fade out at the very end.
Paolo Nutini – Iron Sky
Talking of the outro, Paolo Nutini’s ‘Iron Sky’ influenced our own speech and effect to really give the song the Outro it deserves. When you’ve decided to take the risk and include a 1917, war radio styled, distorted speech at the end of your song there’s no going back. Much like when you’ve confessed to all your deepest, darkest sins.
You can stream Dantevilles new EP ‘Welcome To The Theatre’ below: