Nick Thorburn and Mike Stroud are both indie veterans: Thorburn co-founded the band Islands after the breakup of his previous group the Unicorns, while Stroud is a member of the electronic rock duo Ratatat, who’ve mostly been on hiatus over the past decade. Now, the pair are linking up for a new project called the Creem, with their debut album A Taste Of Cherry arriving this June. Say hello to the lead single “Goodbye.”<\/p>\n
The origins of this collaboration go back 20 years: “I\u2019d actually emailed the Ratatat account back in 2006, asking if Mike would be willing to play guitar on an Islands tour,” Thorburn told Flood<\/a>. “I had assumed Ratatat had broken up and was in need of an extra guitar. I was a fan of Ratatat from the beginning and even referenced the melody to their song \u2018Cherry\u2019 on the first Islands album.”<\/p>\n Then, about five years ago, and Stroud reached out to Thorburn about collaborating, adn the pair eventually met up at Stroud’s Catskills studio. “Goodbye,” A Taste Of Cherry’s opener, is a piece of laid-back pop that splits the difference between Thorburn’s knack for melody and Stroud’s immediately recognizable guitars. Check that out below, along with the title track and the album tracklist.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n TRACKLIST:
01 “Goodbye”
02 “Goldmine”
03 “Hard To Pretend”
04 “Paraphernalia”
05 “Augur”
06 “Country Home”
07 “Taste Of Cherry”
08 “Never Hear The End Of It”
09 “Rushing”
10 “Circles”<\/p>\n