Billy McCarthy, Augustines (Photo: Andy Crossland for Live4ever Media)
We Are Augustines, having returned to their original, shortened name Augustines, are back with the new single ‘Cruel City‘.
The track is streaming via Soundcloud below, and foreshadows the band’s upcoming self-titled second album, which was recorded earlier this summer. The LP follows 2011’s superb ‘Rise Ye Sunken Ships‘ debut, one of Live4ever’s chief essential albums of that year.
Speaking to Live4ever in an exclusive interview last year, the band told us what music had been inspiring them as they began to write new material.
“I know that we’re very big on the Charles Bradbury record that came out,” frontman Billy McCarthy said. “He’s an old soul man that just made his debut record. 62 or 63 and it’s his first record. He’s done music with the Daptones in Brooklyn. It’s an amazing story. He was a cook in a diner, and he walked into a label and said, ‘I heard you were looking for a singer’.”
“I’m currently in a phase of not listening to other stuff. You go through phases,” Eric Sanderson added. “Sometimes I devour stuff, then months will pass when I’ll be processing our own music or working on something and I don’t really want to dive into other music. I know that’s not the funnest answer for your question.”