Tess Parks is a young musician and photographer. Born and raised in Toronto (Ontario, Canada), she's the granddaughter and daughter of musicians, and dropped out of art school at the age of 17. She immediately moved to London to study photography and to pursue music. Playing solo, she gt so lucky to make friends with Alan McGee (359Music's CEO, and one-time venue owner in London), and the likes of Dandy Warhols. Then Tess studies were over, but she stayed beyond her official permit because she loved the place so much. Taking advice from one of her heroes, she eventually did return to Toronto after all, and immediately set forth seeking out the psychedelic musicians she needed. Having found guitarist Andrew McGill, bassist Thomas Huhtala, and multi-instrumentalist and record producer Thomas Paxton-Beesley in late 2012, she packed 'em together as her backing band The Good People.
A first self-funded EP, entitled Work All Day/ Up All Night, was released in late February 2013, preceded (in mid January) by a digital mini-album with demo versions of songs of which later would end up on her debut album. When it comes to describing the music...perhaps it's better to just used her own words, eh? (cited from the info sheet we got along with the download promo copy of the album): “I was brought up on Bob Dylan and Nirvana and The Beatles and Rolling Stones and Zeppelin and all that good shit...I love Oasis, Jesus And The Mary Chain, My Bloody Valentine...”, and well, now...if you take the calmer side of the latter two, but with a guitarist who's flippin' all the time, and throw in a female singer whom seems to be either on Valium, or on marihuana, then you might get a picture of what to expect here! Somehow Tess stayed in touch with her London buddies, and from the connection with McGee inevitably came a deal for the release of this full-length album.
You can find Tess at (www.) facebook.com/tessparks, and from there find the video for the track “Somedays” (album opener), and links to the band's iTunes and Amazon pages...but those will only give you 30-second samples of the album's 11 tracks. Better then, to go listen to some full-length versions of the songs on the EP. None of those 6 tracks made it to the album, but scrolling down the page you're enabled to log onto the January 2013 demos page, and the songs “This Time Next Year” and “Refugee Camp” díd make it to this album, see!? Well, at any rate...enjoy the offering! I mean, if what you read so far has pleased you, then I'm sure you will like the actual music too!