Red Kid’s album release date draws ever closer and to get you in the mood they’re offering five free downloads as a sample of their new album. All you gotta do is head over to their website: www.redkid.info and the songs are yours!

Due for release on 8 August, Rocket Ship boasts eleven vintage tracks built around decades of life and preferences: uber-Indie jingles against Seventies stoner rock and Brit Pop, orange clashes with blue. Including the eponymous single and favourites Soup, Kings of the Universe and No Reason - “you were living there alone, your boyfriend never came home” - possibly the most anthemic chorus of the moment? Epitomising the Irish knack for rollicking renditions of sing-along songs, Rocket Ship’s a record that’s been a long time coming - in the run-up to its release the band’s line-up swapped a bassist and more recently, saw drummer Dan Taylor test the tensile resistance between skull and cement. I’ve had the album for a few weeks - you lot ain’t the only ones to get the perks! - and it’s played a storming role in my summer playlists. I thoroughly recommend this shiny, happy, FREE slice of Irish pop.

Red Kid play Indie Week at The Village, 24 July.

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