Benzos: release Coup d’état EP for free
Benzos has decided to treat their fans with a free download of Coup d’état. This marks their first independent release. Benzos has also posted two remixes from Branches on Myspace that are well worth checking out.
Coup d’état was written while they were on tour, supporting their recent release of Branches, and they “decided to slip it into a set in August at the Knitting Factory.” The crowd response persuaded Benzos to keep the song in their set-list.
Instead of waiting to record the song, Benzos placed the microphones and arranged the tracks and made it available as a free download. Two b-sides were added to the mix, We Have Names and Blue & White, and released it as the Coup d’état EP.
“The Band recently had the idea to ‘clean out the vault’, so-to-speak, and make these 2 b-sides that were cut from Branches available to fans for free. Putting out this new track, Coup d’état, was the perfect time to couple these all together. And with the holidays coming up it seemed appropriate to do it this way, giving the fans a little gift. Both of these songs are very different tracks. We Have Names is more rock oriented, while Blue & White plays with trip hop beats, stripped down instrumentation and soulful vocals.”
Click here for the exclusive download.
Coup d’état Tracklisting:
1. Coup d’état
2. We Have Names (branches b-side)
3. Blue & White (branches b-side)
Benzos – Coup d’état
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