It's been four months since I last blogged about Toronto's First Rate People and their groovy debut single, "Girls' Night." Here's what I had to say...
Sounding like a mash-up of the Tom Tom Club and Stars, First Rate People's “Girls’ Night” is my newest pre-game jam. It’s back-and-forth guy/girl vocals, dribbling-over, heavy bass, an over-produced beat, and twangy guitars, could easily score your amateur mixology or that ugly-duckling/swan montage from She’s All That. [... But] the true charms of “Girls’ Night” are buried in that breezy melody.
When trolling Hype Machine for new tunes, it's easy to find something you like and even easier for some freshmen band to slip into the cracks of your hard drive, collecting dust until you end up forgetting about them altogether, barely noticing their 5.9 MB blip of disc space.
This is (hopefully) not the fate of First Rate People. Calling "Girls' Night" infectious just about sums it up and that I still have it on heavy rotation says something about the band's staying power.
While they have only one other track on their Myspace, a full-length album was reported to be right around the corner, so I decided to do a little digging. Here's what I found:
Their debut LP will be titled It's Never Not Happening. It's seven songs long. The tracklist is down below. The emo-ish album art looks like this. The band looks like this.
Luckily, I stumbled upon three new tracks that are in excellent condition (320 kbps) -- Album opener "Orion," the folky, heartbreaking "It's Never Not Happening (Pt. 1)" and disco-pop-anthem "Charlie Kaufman." Grab them (alongside "Girls' Night" if you haven't yet) while they're hot.
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