Following their successful shows at this year’s SxSW, Cheerleader will release The Sunshine of Your Youth EP on May 18th via Bright Antenna Records.
Music-News.com also caught up with Cheerleader after one of their recent SXSW shows, check out the exclusive interview below.
Sunshine Of Your Youth EP is a collection of four songs, which epitomises Cheerleader’s gorgeous, hazy pop. The title track is Cheerleader at their anthemic best; shimmering guitars, killer melodies and an infectious chorus. Do What You Want originally appeared on the band’s rare 3-track demo EP.
This new studio recording gives the song a new lease of life and acts as a reminder of why so many fell in love with them in the first place. Mine All Mine is one of the band’s earliest demos—released for the first time in the UK—and according to Joe Haller, concerns a “chance encounter in the aisle of a grocery store.” The EP is completed with a recent Paste Acoustic Session version of the title track.
‘Sunshine Of Your Youth’ EP tracklisting: 1. The Sunshine of Your Youth 2. Mine All Mine 3. Do What You Want 4. The Sunshine of Your Youth (Paste Acoustic Session)
The EP is a taster of what’s to come on the band’s debut album to be released later this year. The band is currently supporting The Wombats on their US tour. They’ll play UK shows later in the year.
Cheerleader is Joe Haller, Chris Duran, Josh Pannepacker, Carl Bahner and Paul Impellizeri. Haller and Duran’s musical partnership was born in Duran’s parents’ basement, sparking a connection that survived the 2000s and colleges in separate states. After garnering critical attention from the likes of NME for their self-produced and recorded three-song demo, the duo grew into its current incarnation as a five-piece based in Philadelphia.
