DESERT KITES
‘ALL YOU WANT IS MORE’
NEW SINGLE/EP OUT 3/11/23
Desert Kites are an alt-rock band from Dundee. Their songs are heavily influenced by 90s grunge and indie rock in terms of sonic quality, but there is a dash of shoegaze and a definite nod to classic and prog rock along the way. Their songs reflect the lives they’ve led. Sometimes angry, sometimes sad, sometimes indifferent, always poetic. They prefer imagery over narrative, creating lyrical montages that provide askance views into the human experience all wrapped up in solid melodic structures.
With 2 previous singles to-date; ‘Coming Home To You’ and ‘Solstice’, both released in 2022, the band released their 3rd single ‘Restless Mind’ in May, their first since joining the Reaction roster, and it became their most streamed single to-date, picking up a significant amount of airplay and launching themselves onto a bigger platform. Follow-up singles ‘Something Dark’ and ‘Sorry Ass’ surpassed all expectations and were picked up by stations across the globe. New single ‘All You Want Is More’ is also the title of the band’s debut EP which is a collection of their previous singles.
“Restless Mind listens like a road-trip, feels like a friend you haven’t met yet, with their soundscapes they paint images, lyrical montages and views we had not yet discovered” – Discovery Scotland.
New single ‘All You Want Is More’ will be released 3/11/23
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All You Want Is More,is a single and an EP at the same time. The single is a grungy effort that lyrically takes aim at fame and fortune and the endless unsatisfying cycle of ‘more’ that is at the heart of our late capitalist western lifestyle. There are references to pop culture (music and TV) throughout the song, highlighting that it is all pervasive. It’s in everything we do, everything we see and everything we consume. The rest of the tracks on the EP are versions of the three songs we’ve released with Reaction Management so far. And as the lead single is about wanting more, we decided to give our fans the non-radio versions of Something Dark, (which has a whole extra verse) and Sorry Ass, with its original radio unfriendly lyrics, rather than just package up our previous releases.” – Shaleph O’Neill
Tracks written by Shaleph O’Neill
Tracks Produced by Desert Kites and Stuart Hanna
Recorded at Stage 2000, Dundee
Mixed & Mastered by Stuart Hanna
Single artwork by Shaleph O’Neill
Musician credits:
Shaleph O’Neill – Vocals/Guitar
Michael Szeremt – Drums
Stuart Hanna – Bass
