Muso’s Guide Introduces… RedTrack

They appeared on Zane Lowe’s Fresh Meat and on Kerrang! Radio. They supported Get Cape, Wear Cape, Fly on tour. Soon they’ll be releasing their debut full-length album. This Southend band might be en route to stardom, but faced a nasty detour on the way.

In March 2007, RedTrack were set to record their first single, ‘Pretty Boy/Inside,’ but Phil Blake (bass) was attacked by two men. A meat-cleaver to the head and forearm and a gunshot to the leg, he lost feeling in two fingers on his left hand (despite surgery and twenty stitches).

Fortunately, they made it back to the studio that August and recorded and released the single in October. And with fresh poppy-punk tracks that elicit comparisons to The Libertines, they’ve even impressed Pete Shelley of The Buzzcocks, whose backing vocals can be heard on the band’s third release, ‘Pole Dancer/Addicted to Lust’.

RedTrack’s songs are filled with insanely catchy and morbidly clever lyrics that make this trio the next band to look out for. We can’t get enough of ‘Pole Dancer’ (“As your bright red nails scratch my chest, I wanna die”, sings Billy Wright, in a track about falling in love with a pole dancer. “You may be half-dressed but I know you’re not stupid.”) And their latest single, ‘Cigarette,’ compares romance to a burnt out cigarette, burning a hole in your pocket while you’re coughing up blood. Bloody brilliant!

Be sure to check out RedTrack at one of their London gigs this summer!

Or download this here track as a little introduction: RedTrack – Cigarette