Tallies New Single

Toronto-based four piece Tallies have announced that their self-titled debut album will be released on January 11 via Fear Of Missing Out Records. New single, ‘Beat the Heart’, is inspired by dreamy yet straightforward performance videos of the late ‘80s by bands like The Sundays and Cocteau Twins. Tallies is Sarah Cogan (vocals, rhythm guitar), Dylan Frankland (lead guitar), Cian O’Neill (drums), and Stephen Pitman (bass). Cogan says the infectious and charging track laments “the lack of empathy that exists so strongly today.”

Cogan started music lessons at a young age, learning simple piano melodies and guitar chords that she could sing and write lyrics over. Frankland has also been immersed in music for most of his life, growing up with a music-obsessed father who introduced him to greats like The Smiths, The Sundays, Aztec Camera, and Cocteau Twins. He subconsciously carried these influences into Tallies, which is evident in the Johnny Marr stylings of his guitar riffs and the Robin Guthrie-tinged shoegaze textures of his production. “While writing this album, we were listening to The Sundays Reading, Writing and Arithmetic a lot,” says Frankland, adding, “Harriet Wheeler’s soft-spokenly sweet melodies has a major influence on where Sarah sometimes takes her writing to.”

The album was co-produced by Frankland and Josh Korody at Toronto’s Candle Recordings, a hot spot where locals like Metz, Dilly Dally, Austra, and Weaves have made indie classics. It’s also where Frankland works as an engineer/producer. With upbeat percussion, melodic bass riffs, and magnetic guitar leads, Tallies puts one-of-a-kind melodies to the universal impact of adulthood hitting you square in the face.

Tallies track list:

1. Trouble

2. Mother

3. Midnight

4. Have You

5. Not So Proud

6. Trains and Snow

7. Beat the Heart

8. Eden

9. Giving Up

10. Rocks

11. Easy Enough