Tess Parks: Blood Hot, CD

“Tess is a true believer in the church of rock’n’roll. She has great taste and is really sharp!” - Alan McGee

• Tess Parks was born and raised in Toronto but moved to London at seventeen to pursue music and to study photography. She has played solo for the past four years.

• Having moved back to Toronto in 2012, she put together her amazing psychedelic backing band of “sexy and talented musicians”, The Good People.

• Early in 2013, she released an EP Work All Day/Up All Night. and demo’d songs for her debut album via Bandcamp.

• Tess describes her songs as “lo-fi alternative drones with a hypnotic vibe”. Influences include Elliott Smith, friends the Dandy Warhols and all the classics: “I was brought up on Bob Dylan, Nirvana, The Beatles, Rolling Stones and Zeppelin.”

• She met Alan McGee in London. “We stayed in touch, that was it really. I just got so lucky. I love Oasis, Jesus and Mary Chain, My Bloody Valentine… He’s affiliated with all of my favourite musicians.”

• Tess recorded her album of scuzzy, downbeat psychedelia (think Mazzy Star crossed with The Brian Jonestown Massacre) across the summer. It’s been pre-empted by the release of her debut single proper ‘Somedays’.

TRACK LISTING

1. SOMEDAYS
2. GATES OF BROADWAY
3. WHEN I AM YOUNG
4. REFUGEE CAMP
5. STICK AROUND
6. OPEN YOUR MIND
7. WALK BEHIND YOUR HOUSE
8. GOODNIGHT LOVE
9. THIS TIME NEXT YEAR
10. LIFE IS BUT A DREAM
11. LOVE AROUND