Tigercats reveal video for brand new track "Rent Control" from Continental Drift EP

Tigercats Reveal video for “Rent Control”

Brand new track taken from Continental Drift EP compilation

Out on Fortuna POP!/Slumberland on 26 August

Featuring tracks by The Spook School, Wildhoney and Mercury Girls

Watch Tigercats’ “Rent Control” video

Today Dork shared the new video for new single “Rent Control” from East London outfit TIGERCATS, taken from the forthcoming indiepop compilation Continental Drift EP, due out on Fortuna POP! and Slumberland on 26 August.

Gathering together their mates to join them as the band played live at Soup Studios for the video shoot, bass player Giles Barrett said:“Sometimes it feels that dancing is the only sane response to an insane world. We organised a show at our studio with our friends because it seemed more fun than filming a music video and we wanted to be covered with other people’s sweat.”

Tigercats jangly, effervescent pop nods to their punk roots and spikes the pop punch with anthemic choruses and massive, crunching guitars. Their second album Mysteries was a huge step forward for the band and the two new songs included here point to even greater things in the future.

You can catch Tigercats at the End of the Road festival in September.

Four great bands, two great labels and two continents meet on this stellar mini-LP. Frequent collaborators Slumberland Records and Fortuna POP! team up to bring you Continental Drift, a smashing eight song sampler of some of the finest pop out there in 2016, with Tigercats,Wildhoney, Mercury Girls and The Spook School.

Baltimore’s Wildhoney have been making music together since 2011, forging a fresh sound from raw materials of shoegaze, punk and good old indiepop. 2015 saw the release of their debut LP and follow-up EP, and now we’ve snagged two top-quality exclusive tunes for this compilation.

Philadelphia’s Mercury Girls are one of the most talked-about new bands in ages. Featuring members of Literature, Little Big League and Pet Milk, Mercury Girls have a gorgeous, layered sound that combines post-punk dynamics with soaring/jangling guitars, fantastic melodies and expertly-arranged tunes. Their recent single “Ariana” turned a lot of heads, and their two contributions contained herein should make us all quite excited for their in-progress debut album.

Edinburgh, Scotland’s The Spook School are surely the most *fun* band taking-on issues of gender and identity today, writing queer-pop anthems that are noisy, tuneful, sharply-observed and outrageously catchy. Citing influences as varied as T-Rex, C86 and Buzzcocks, they tell stories that are as multi-faceted and complex as modern life and sexuality itself, but also universal in their optimism. The title of their recent album “Try To Be Hopeful” sums it up well, and their two songs here are up there with the band’s finest.

Continental Drift EP

Full tracklisting:
01 – Holly – Mercury Girls
02 – Sometimes I Hide From Everyone – The Spook School
03 – Horror Movie – Wildhoney
04 – Sidney St – Tigercats
05 – Gone Home – The Spook School
06 – Beverly – Mercury Girls
07 – Rent Control – Tigercats
08 – T L (Reprisal) – Wildhoney