Keep Calm Carry the Monkey

Keep Calm and Carry the Monkey is the second album by Australian rock band Skipping Girl Vinegar.

Keep Calm Carry the Monkey
Studio album by
Skipping Girl Vinegar
Released7 May 2011 (Australia)
RecordedVarious locations, Victoria, Australia
Nashville Tennessee 2010–2011
GenreIndie rock, acoustic, folk
Length33:17
LabelSecret Fox (Australia), Popboomerang, MGM
ProducerGreg Arnold, Caleb James, Nick Huggins, Mark Lang
Skipping Girl Vinegar chronology
Sift the Noise
(2009)		 Keep Calm Carry the Monkey
(2011)		 'The Great Wave'
(2015)
Singles from Keep Calm Carry the Monkey
  1. "One Long Week"
    Released: 11 March 2011
  2. "Wasted"
    Released: 1 May 2011
  3. "You Can"
    Released: 14 July 2011
  4. "Chase the Sun"
    Released: 22 October 2011

The first single from the album, "One Long Week", was released in March 2011. This heralded a harder and more dynamic sound.[1] The song was playlisted by Triple J and other Australian radio stations.[2] The album was released two months later.

Skipping Girl Vinegar opened the 2011 Splendour in the Grass festival.[3] Days after the festival the band released another single, "Wasted". This also achieved widespread radio airplay [4] and heralded the beginning of their Drown It Out tour, as did following singles "Chase the Sun", and "You Can", taken from their third album "Keep Calm Carry the Monkey". [5]

In March 2012, the band performed on the Australian television programme Adam Hills' In Gordon Street Tonight with their single "Chase the Sun".[6]

Chase the Sun filmclip

The music video for single Chase the Sun involved a toy monkey the band found in hard rubbish and creating a small spacecraft made from foam, gaffa tape and a weather balloon. The monkey (Baker) was sent into the atmosphere with an onboard camera, reaching 110,000 feet and the resulting footage was incorporated into the filmclip.[7]

Reception

Reviews for the album were uniformly positive, with many noting the guest appearance of Canadian singer-songwriter Ron Sexsmith on the closing track 'Heart Does Ache'.[8][9][10][11]

The national 'Drown it Out' tour followed, promoting the album.

Track listing

All songs written by Skipping Girl Vinegar

  1. Chase the Sun
  2. You Can
  3. Hand To Hold
  4. Central Station
  5. Hell Out Of Town
  6. Moose Took Me Deep
  7. Castles Full Of Storms
  8. One Long Week
  9. Wasted
  10. Slow Steady Hand
  11. Here She Comes
  12. Heart Does Ache

References
  1. "One Long Week". Retrieved 27 February 2013.
  2. "J Play". Retrieved 27 February 2013.
  3. "Skipping Girl Vinegar rises from the mud to kick off Splendour in the Grass". Retrieved 27 February 2013.
  4. "J Play". Retrieved 27 February 2013.
  5. "Skipping Girl Vinegar get Wasted and Drown it Out". Retrieved 27 February 2013.
  6. "Special Guest: Season 2". Retrieved 27 February 2013.
  7. "Interview with Mark Lang from Skipping Girl Vinegar". Retrieved 27 February 2013.
  8. "Skipping Girl Vinegar: Keep Calm, Carry The Monkey". Beat Magazine. Retrieved 27 February 2014.
  9. "Skipping Girl Vinegar: Keep Calm, Carry The Monkey". The AU Review. Retrieved 27 February 2014.
  10. "Skipping Girl Vinegar: Keep Calm, Carry The Monkey". ABC Media. Retrieved 27 February 2014.
  11. "Skipping Girl Vinegar: Keep Calm, Carry The Monkey". AUM. Retrieved 27 February 2014.
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