Brazilian Girls 'New York City' album

For Brazilian Girls self-titled debut, The New York Times recognized the band as bearers of a new brand of “New York City Pop” that recast “New York as global lounge…where intrepid musicians can choose from a world’s worth of urbane sounds.” Appropriately, New York City, the band’s forthcoming third album, expands upon Brazilian Girls’ signature, polyglot sound by simultaneously paying homage to all four corners of the globe and the city where they got their start. The album is set for release August 5 on Verve Forecast.

Frontwoman Sabina Sciubba muses about the new album, “While the world was busy freezing fish, trimming their clothes, selling stocks, hiding their grandmothers, oiling their muscles, waiting for God and hoping for miracles, Brazilian Girls locked themselves into their basement and wrote 11 anthems, one for every city they brought back to New York. Now they’re taking New York City on the road. And you for a ride.”

New York City is produced by Hector Castillo and Brazilian Girls and features the renowned Senagalese musician Baaba Maal as a guest vocalist on “Internacional,” a collaboration which came about this past winter when Sciubba and Didi Gutman traveled to London to write and record with Maal on another project. Castillo also engineered the album, and Michael H. Brauer mixed it, except for “Berlin,” mixed by James Brown for Just Managing, “Strange Boy,” mixed by Tchad Blake and “Mano De Dios,” mixed by Hector Castillo. Additionally, famed jazz percussionist Kenny Wolleson and his marching band, The Himalayas, contribute the horn sections to “Berlin,” “Ricardo” and “St. Petersburgh.”

The band’s second album, 2006’s Talk To La Bomb, earned widespread critical applause. Pitchfork noted that the album, “...swings in exactly the right directions,” and Rolling Stone praised the album for its “...bizarro pop with wry hooks and tricked-out arrangements...” Their eponymous debut was equally praised with Entertainment Weekly calling it “...unceasingly irresistible,” and the Associated Press declaring it one of the “top 10 albums of 2005.”

Brazilian Girls are Sabina Sciubba (vocals), Didi Gutman (keyboards) and Aaron Johnston (drums). Please visit verveforecast.com and braziliangirls.info. The band will embark on a national tour following the album’s release with performances at Lollapalooza, All Good Festival and Pemberton Festival.

“...the band’s reputation as an energetic live act has set the table for a possible crossover to the mainstream…in the tradition of other left-of-center, genre-bending acts from New York such as Dee-Lite or the Talking Heads.”—Los Angeles Times

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