Zounds

Zounds is the third album by Australian rock band Dappled Cities, released in Australia on 15 August 2009 and worldwide on 15 September through Dangerbird Records. The album comes two years after their previous release, Granddance, during which time the band was touring the US with the likes of The Fratellis and Tokyo Police Club, with a few forays home riding shotgun to Silverchair, Modest Mouse and LCD Soundsystem. At this point, the band had uprooted from their home of Sydney and settled Stateside. They shot videos in Wyoming gas stations, played impromptu gigs in South Dakota sound factories, partied with Hugh Jackman and Steve Malkmus and even managed to film a 26-episode children's odyssey for Disney called ‘Alphabreaks’. Under the A&R guidance of Justin Meldal-Johnsen and American co-producer Chris Coady, Dappled Cities began to create music. The band used new electric guitars and imported a Gakken — a $40 build-it-yourself cardboard synthesiser from Japan — on all 12 songs. The band also hired three mixers for Zounds — Coady, Scott Horscroft and Wayne Connolly. The result: "It's an album that really shows the growth and depth of Dappled Cities. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zounds_...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)