Hey There Golden Hair

VINYL FORMAT. It's been three years since the release of Robbers on High Street's second LP. Now, with a new line up, some time off and a third album in the can, the band has grown into themselves - confident and unabashed in their grasp of late-60s Anglophilia a la the Pretty Things, and the brassy romp of early '70s AM rock. It's a new sound for the band that, if anything, hearkens back to the rough, instantaneous pop appeal of their Peter Katis (Interpol, The National) produced 2005 debut album, Tree City. But much has changed for group the since they were traveling the country with the likes of Hot Hot Heat, Cake, Fountains of Wayne and Brendan Benson in support of that album.

Returning to Brooklyn in 2008, the band took a needed breather, but new songs and rehearsals emerged following the New Year. Recording started on their third album, Hey There Golden Hair, in October of 2009 on the boys' newly purchased Tascam MS-16 1" tape machine, which was lovingly dragged to several studios across Northwest Brooklyn before settling at Tommy Brenneck's (Budos Band, Menahan Street Band) Dunham Studio for mixdown this past May. Produced by Trokan with engineer Matt Shane (Flight of the Conchords, Rosanne Cash) this was the current line-up's first foray into a proper recording session, drawing little help from the outside save that of a horn section borrowed from Daptone Records.