Olympians stream their ‘Dance Like Everybody’s Watching and They Hate You’ EP

The latest EP from Olympians ‘Dance Like Everybody’s Watching and They Hate you’ is released on Monday through Barely Regal Records, but if you simply can’t wait that long, you can stream it now via Musical Mathematics.

Following up from 2013’s ‘Adventure Gun’, ‘Dance Like Everybody’s Watching…’ sees Olympians at their dreamy, evocative best and is available as a digital download or a limited edition print, designed by Olympians’ drummer, Michael Parkin. Later this year, the band will be releasing their currently untitled debut album.

Speaking to Musical Mathematics, the band say, “About 18 months ago we decided that with Parkin in the band we should probably stop fucking around and make an entire album of songs. Firstly this went exceptionally badly as we hadn’t really written together in a room for a while, and it took ages for us to make about 5 songs. It was no small wonder that we managed to finish one of them, ‘Brunch Cannon’, and then release it into the world. After that happened though, something magic happened, we suddenly forgot to be really bad at actually getting round to making music and so by default accidentally got really good at actually doing it and wrote about 20 songs of varying quality. This collection of eight songs are the melty synth ones of the bunch, and mostly the earlier ones we wrote, and sort of thematically floated away from the rest to become their own little thing. There will be a real full-length album soon. At the moment it’s a lot more sad and angry and loud.”

Olympians are also heading out on a European tour with Theo and the dates are below.

March.

27 – Lille, France

April

01 – Amsterdam, Netherlands

02 – Potsdam, Germany

03 - Prague, Czech Republic

04 – Lausanne, Switzerland

06 – Porrentruy, Switzerland

07 – Milan, Italy

08 – Turin, Italy

09 – Paris, France