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Why Dappled Cities ‘Suck’

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On the back of new album Lake Air and currently in the middle of a tour, Dappled Cities' Tim Derricourt has told Inpress, that his band kinds of sucks at… well, being a band.

Speaking to the paper recently he said, “We are this odd band that kind of suck at being a band.”

He continued, “We're good friends and we play good shows but at the same time I don't think we've ever been good at being that kind of band that puts everything into the one record, and comes out with this complete vision. We're always learning, and I think that's the opposite to a lot of bands that come out strong and maybe fall away after a while.”

To the external observer, Sydney's Dappled Cities have something of an on-off nature. But from the inside its evident that that's not for lack of creativity.

“Honestly, I could make a Dappled record right now,” Derricourt said, “and I'll make another one after that. We've just never been creatively stifled. We just always feel like we've got more in us.”

Read the full interview here.

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