Corduroy Cape Mixtape - Being, Soaked Oats, Ha The Unclear

Being., Soaked Oats and Ha the Unclear are celebrating the release of their new joint release Corduroy Cape: A Persnickety Mixtape with a four-date circus in May across Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, and Dunedin.

The Corduroy Cape Mixtape is a peep into each band's sock drawer, lint filter and vacuum bag. A potpourri of songs containing covers, unreleased material and special demo cuts, a whiff of the familiar and a niff of new noises. It is pop-hearted and indie-scum, hard cheese and the morning muesli, all glued together with a collegial spirit and a like-minded lilt.

The seed for the split was sown during an overzealous post-show conversation when everybody involved shared a bill at Auckland's Whammy Bar. Composed mostly of hand gestures, yelling and disproportionate body language it was ordained and somehow communicated that said split release should contain both a cover (LCD Soundsystem, Best Coast, Split Enz) and an original from each band. The Corduroy Cape Mixtape was conceived.