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Track Of The Week: 'Gentlemen's Club' by First Rate People

by Chris Budd

I don’t always remember to write about bands that I take some interest in.  Owen Sound’s First Rate People jumped on my radar months ago, perhaps from a post on Pitchfork calling their first single ‘Girl’s Night’ a “funky, flirty abstraction that floats somewhere in the space between a bouncy 1990s-style R&B tune and a swooning alt-rock ballad”.  At the time, I guess they slipped my mind.

Today, they popped back on my radar and I’m happy to give you their 2nd single called ‘Gentleman’s Club’.  The song features guest appearances from Born Ruffian’s Luke LaLonde on backing vocals,  sweet harmonies from the Annas and string arrangements from Jaron Freeman-Fox.  The song is inspired by the British tv series ‘Skins’, a show we’ll start getting our own version of in North America.  And again, like ‘Girl’s Night’, the band sings to fun and optimism.

Look for the band on the road in Ontario and debuting in the U.S. at the Hopscotch Festival in Raleigh, NC.

Download: Gentlemen’s Club

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