Winnipeg, MB (Top40 Charts/ Green Light Go Entertainment) Winnipeg's up and coming power pop group, Enjoy Your Pumas will take another step toward going worldwide when they release their debut album, Commonality. To celebrate the release, they'll be at The Park Theatre on January 30th, playing tracks off the hook-filled record and showing off their signature sound dichotomy: lilting and ethereal/aggressive and rhythmic.
Commonality is great hooks, layered guitars, a tight, poppy rhythm section and Rosie Blais' strong diverse vocals, and is sure to remind listeners ofMetric, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Bloc Party. The album was recorded primarily at Private Ear Recording Studio in Winnipeg. Death Cab for Cutie, Matt Epp, and The Waking Eyes have all recorded there. Enjoy Your Pumas appreciated the relatively lengthy time they were allowed to spend recording (six days) and put it to good use. Working on the band for five straight days was like a vacation. A working vacation. It was a pleasant taste of what music as a career would be like," says Janzen. Josh Benoit felt the album reflected this time well spent, It sounds like a band that has put time and thought into the execution of their music."
Enjoy Your Pumas has enjoyed a few other pleasant tastes of the music business in 2010. They made national headlines when they won theOurStage.com contest to open for Bon Jovi and Kid Rock on the Regina, Saskatchewan stop of their world stadium tour. The lead single fromCommonality ,Weight of the Circles" reached the Top Ten on Winnipeg indie station Kick FM and has received heavy airplay on Winnipeg stations Curve 94.3, Hot 103, as well as CBC Radio.
Praise for Enjoy Your Pumas
On Ink:The EP
"It's good. Really good... the soundtrack to your dreams... a dynamic and diverse recording" - Jared Story, Uptown Magazine, Dec/09
"Vocalist Rosie Blais is diverse as they come, with a huge voice." - Cdbaby.Com Music Discovery Podcast, Dec/09
On Live Performance
"Blais' stream-of-conscious lyrics add evocative brush strokes to the band's sinewy, polyrhythmic indie rock...Infinitely listenable"- Ourstage.Com Music Blog
Time for atmospheric music to reach a new level... a bunch of energetic and passionate artists who love to take their listeners on a unique journey."
- Cendrine Marrouat,
Winnipeg Art Examiner, Examiner.Com, Sep/10
Enjoy Your Pumas Celebrate the Release of Commonality at The Park Theatre January 30th "...an ambient brand of pop-rock inspired by the likes of Radiohead and Sigur Ros." -Darryl Sterdan, Winnipeg Sun
Enjoy Your Pumas Record Release Party
Sunday, January 30th
The Park Theatre
698 Osborne St., Winnipeg, MB
Doors: 7:00 PM
Show: 8:00 PM
$10 advance tickets/ $15 at the door
With: Canoe and Robbed in Tuxedo
