April 19, 2010

Rock band “States of Emotion,” the sons of sunny Essex.

SINGLE called Fight Them On The Beaches sampling extracts of Sir Winston Churchill’s legendary call to arms – it sounds the sort of thing that gives Iron Maiden a bad name in certain PC circles.

But in fact, it was the download calling card of States Of Emotion, an Essex quartet who count the likes of U2, Coldplay, Kasabian and The Verve among their anthemic rock inspirations.

And reaction to that radio exposure, coupled with some glowing reviews of last year’s festival appearances at Glastonbury, The Great Escape and Offset, has catapulted them into the ‘ones to watch’ list for this summer.

Debut proper single The Unsung is due out on May 17 by way of an introduction to Black And White To Gold, the album they recorded with the help of Manic Street Preachers producer Greg Haver and which will be released on their own Perfectly Blue Records label.

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And the band, who have been playing together since they were 14, set out on a headline tour later this month with a date at Coventry’s Kasbah on Monday, May 3.

Although their career is at an embryonic stage, the band have some very firm ideas about what they aim to achieve.

Read the entire article at the Coventry Telegraph

You can listen to the track by States of Emotion on their MySpace page and you can also connect with them on Facebook.

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