Morning Parade Album Preview - 'Carousel'

Morning Parade are a band that have been on Gigwise's radar for a while now - and it's not been without good reason. So we're very happy to announce that over the next five weeks in the lead up to the band's biggest ever headline date at Scala in London, we'll be bringing you five exclusive and never before heard songs from their debut album, which is due out early next year.

Every Monday, for one week only, a new song will be available to stream on this page from 11am (BST), until on September 26, when all five tracks will be available.

This week, it's...

'Carousel':

Morning Parade will play their biggest-ever headline gig at Scala in London's King's Cross on September 26. Tickets for the show are available now from morningparade.com/live.

Morning Parade's Steve Sparrow on 'Carousel':

“Carousel has been meticulously worked and poked at over the course of a year and we were absolutely brutal in recording it, we decided to strip it back from its live roots and work from the ground up trying to add a little as possible. We really wanted to focus on making the song feel how it should. It's about those times you find yourself wandering aimlessly, the hours of the night that blur into a series of flashbacks, in and out of awareness and the places our minds go or long to be to during those experiences

“We wanted it to be haunting, disorientating and euphoric all at the same time whilst making sure we didn't go overboard and find ourselves unable to re-create it live. We stuck to what we know but experimented with a lot of different sounds, textures and even structures until it felt right - short, intense and a soundscape you could get lost in.”

Morning Parade on tour:

Nottingham, Rescue Rooms - September 19
Bristol, Thekla - 21
Gloucester, Underground Festival - 24
London, Scala - 26
Yeovil, Westlands - October 1
Birmingham, O2 Academy - 2
Lincoln, Engine Shed - 3
Sheffield, O2 Academy - 4
Newcastle, O2 Academy - 6
Glasgow, O2 Academy - 7
Manchester, Apollo - 8

Tickets for the shows are available now from morningparade.com/live. Download the exclusive album track 'Close To Your Heart' below.

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