Brooklyn-London based indie duo The King Canutes have released “Seymour Stein (for Earle Holmes),” the first single from their debut album ‘Eastern Seaboard, Perfect Summer’ arriving November 21st via Magic Door Record Label. This marks their first release since their 2008 debut EP ‘Last Callers and Losers,’ a 17-year gap that makes this return all the more significant. Keir Woods brings a sonorous true folk voice of Northern England on vocals and guitars while Richard Alwyn Fisher delivers scrappy Replacements-style Midwestern energy, the two having met in Brooklyn in the early 2000s within NYC’s cosmopolitan pop and indie rock scene. Written by Keir after moving from NYC to Paris, the song captures the elation of freedom and release mixed with bittersweet frustration of starting the artistic journey again and the fear that maybe this is as far as it goes, dedicated to club owner and friend Earle Holmes who gave Keir his first Paris bookings.
Produced, recorded, mixed and mastered by renowned producer Ray Ketchem at Magic Door Recording Studio, the track features stellar horns from the iconic Mac Gollehon, plus Ketchem on percussion and keyboards, bassist Dave Derby, drummer Kevin March, and Jessie Kilguss on backing vocals. The King Canutes make intelligent, skewed pop with echoes of early 80s and 90s Australian and Scottish pop, British folk and Midwestern indie rock, with their music sitting somewhere between The Go-Betweens and The Postal Service. Some fifteen years in gestation and three years in the making, their coming album features contributions from a veritable who’s who of the indie scene including Kendall Meade, Mike Dillon, John Leon, David Nagler, Doug McEachern, Renée LoBue and Verena Wiesendanger.