The brilliant eponymous debut album from Brooklyn’s People Get Ready came out at the end of 2012. The quartet have just announced the release of its follow-up, Physiques.
According to the press release, Physiques “began as a collection of deliberately incomplete sketches that they developed over three months of improvisation, revision and accidental magic”. Former band member Ian Chang (Matthew Dear, Body Language) was recruited for drumming duties on Physiques, which also features guest collaborations from Steve Marion aka Delicate Steve, Brian Betancourt (Hospitality, Here We Go Magic) and Ryan Seaton (Callers). The album was produced by Deerhoof’s drummer Greg Saunier at the Clocktower Gallery and is slated for a June 24th release via Brassland.
To get us enticed ahead of the album’s release, People Get Ready have unveiled the catchy and excellent title track in the form a video. Here it is.

‘Zelda Maria’, one of the cuts from People Get Ready‘s brilliant eponymous debut album, is getting its own EP. Other than the title track, the EP features a demo of album track ‘Orange Grove’, an instrumental B-side, and a remix by Soft Encounters aka Luke Fasano.
Here’s what founding member Steven Reker said of ‘Zelda Maria’:

“Zelda Maria came together right before we recorded it. I had recently finished watching Michaelangelo Antonioni’s film The Passenger for the 2nd or 3rd time. There is this scene in the end that played over and over in my head – Jack asking Maria “What can you see now?” I lifted the dialogue and fit it into a melody that popped up from the keyboard parts I was fiddling with, and a few days later we were tracking the song with Jherek Bischoff. It became the most collaborative song on the record — Luke Fasano had input on how and when the keyboards shifted – Jen Goma wrote the little guitar lick – James Rickman, Jherek and I worked on the funky bass line – it was real fun! Zelda Maria sounds best when you play it super loud – like most things.”

Coinciding with the EP release, People Get Ready have premiered a video to accompany the track. Watch it below.

Last month Brooklyn based quartet People Get Ready teased their eponymous debut album with the catchy first single ‘Windy Cindy’.
With less than a week to go before the album drops via Brassland, they are keeping us excited about it with the brand new single ‘Middle Name’.

In the words of founding member Steven Reker, “‘Middle Name’ imagines what Joan of Arc and Nikola Tesla have in common. And the structure of the song was inspired by Arthur Russell’s ‘Nobody Wants a Lonely Heart'”.

Listen to ‘Middle Name’ below. The single is free to grab and you can also stream the whole album via People Get Ready’s bandcamp.

Steven Reker, Luke Fasano (ex-Yeasayer), James Rickman (ex-Lizzie Trulie, ex-Slow Gherkin) and Jen Goma (A Sunny Day in Glasgow) make up Brooklyn based outfit People Get Ready.
The quartet are set to release their self-titled debut album on October  22nd via Brassland. The album was recorded last year in an old farm house in New York by songwriter, producer and composer Jherek Bischoff.

‘Windy Cindy’ is the first catchy taste lifted from People Get Ready’s upcoming album. Founding member Steven Reker, who has previously toured with David Byrne as a guitarist and dancer, said this about the single:

“‘Windy Cindy’ was inspired by Cindy Sherman’s pictures, her Untitled Film Stills. I spent a long time looking at those pictures, and then I got so into them, I mean really in to them. I found myself wanting to see things from the perspective of the characters she had made. So the song is basically me having this desire to take over her spot in the picture – forever. It’s a dialogue. I try to do it, it’s fine for a bit, but I end up getting super tired because I can’t hold the pose as long as she can. And then I imagine I’d rather be an inanimate object. Like I’d rather just be her dress or the glass that she’s holding, the match that she’s striking, the book she is getting off the shelf, and stuff like that. All these objects are endowed perfectly by her, the way she handles them. It’s very romantic to me, not in a lovey-dovey way at all but in the way the work feels…livable. It’s a livable world she made.”

Listen to ‘Windy Cindy’ below.