Daphne & Celeste Save The World
New album, single and tour dates
 
This month sees the release of the first new album written and produced by Max Tundra since 2008's Parallax Error Beheads You. Daphne & Celeste Save The World, a 13-song collection of giddy, ridiculous, genre-bursting pop, is released on 30 March on Tundra's own Balatonic label, but is available to preorder now on vinyl (black or pink), CD, limited cassette and download, alongside a bewildering variety of beautiful merchandise items, including temporary tattoos and badges - click here to buy:
 
 
The world has changed a hell of a lot since D&C stormed up the charts with their effervescent earworms U.G.L.Y. and Ooh Stick You, back near the birth of the 21st century. A few years ago, Tundra tweeted the duo, asking them if he could write and produce their comeback record. After Celeste replied with "that's a rad idea!" the three of them kept in touch and eventually, Daphne & Celeste Save The World was born. The LP, the duo's first in 18 years, finds our friends in fine, soaring, melodic voice, with Tundra's restlessly inventive production a toothsome, chordy, maximalist feast. These tunes touch on subjects as varied as time travel, succulents, pipelines under the ocean, cabins in the wood, unadventurous guitarists and different regions of the brain, but above all the sweet, enduring friendship of those two people who, long ago, told us all to Ooh Stick You.
 
 
Watch the video for hypnotic new single Alarms above and order yourself a limited edition 7" below, on premium-quality turquoise vinyl with a unique "pop-out" centre like the singles of yesteryear that gave buyers the option of putting the record into their jukebox. The B-side sees D&C covering Hi-Fidelity, a vibrant reworking of The Kids From Fame dancing-around-the-musical-instrument-shop classic.
 
 
Daphne & Celeste are coming to England to play a handful of tour dates and Max Tundra is in the band:
 
27 March: Boston Music Room, London
30 March: Hope & Ruin, Brighton
31 March: G-A-Y, Heaven, London
2 April: Firebug, Leicester
3 April: Rough Trade, Bristol (instore & signing)
 
Check out two more songs from Daphne & Celeste Save The World below: