The Fakes Releases Debut EP 'Storm In A Tea Cup'

SYDNEY, Australia (www.subexile.com) - The long awaited debut EP 'Storm in a tea cup' to the fabulous Australian quintet the fakes is finally digitally released on January 30 2006. Sublime Exile Recordings has teamed up with the Swedish digital music download portal klicktrack.com, where all our previously and forthcoming releases can be pre listened to. Of course we're excited! - This is our first digital outburst.

the fakes take their inspiration from the pop sounds of Mazzy Star, The Sneaker Pimps, Cowboy Junkies, and other bands with cool girl singers. The sound is pop; sensual, dark brooding, with a fragile intense female vocal over stark guitars and intelligent electronica.

Shimmering, shining, disorienting, crystalline, textured and tortured - Music that would best be experienced in a smoke and haze filled club, where other people fade in and out of the fog like dark silhouettes in a strobe filled alley.

What punk would sound if it could be beautiful...

After finding life in the backwoods of Connecticut in the summer of 2001, the initial incarnation of the fakes recorded songs heavily influenced by the sounds of bands such as Mazzy Star and other "texture/sleepy pop bands" with cool girl singers. Throw in a few small shows in even smaller bars, then a time spent in the U.K writing; then fast forward a return home to Australia in 2003.

March 2004 saw the fakes complete a 7-track demo with producer Robbie Rowlands (12 techniques, Morning After Girls...) that quickly attracted attention from labels in Australia, Europe and the U.S and resulted in a "Music for the future grant" to release their highly anticipated debut "Storm in a tea cup".

The luscious and sensuous voice of Juliarna Cleal provides a perfect counterpoint to the ethereal, bittersweet, pop; Textured layers of guitars, cello, drum, bass and minimalist electronica; the fakes create dark, moody pop recalling at times Paradise Motel, My Bloody Valentine and even the Velvet Underground.