“Put on your dancing shoes,” as vet songwriters Kate
Tucker, Ross Flournoy team up for collection of pop tunes “with the ability to
part the clouds.”
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Little
Reader (L-R): Kate Tucker, Ross Flournoy.
Photo credit: Dan Long.
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The Big Score by Little Reader (produced
by Mark Watrous of The Shins) is out today. Stream it at Spotify!
Grab a four-track Little
Reader album sampler “Selected
Readings From The Big Score” at Noisetrade!
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“Put on your dancing shoes and go on the
trip of a lifetime.” — Conan
O’Brien Presents: Team Coco
Go
to Iceland with the footwork of Shan Turner-Carroll in the music video for “Speed
of Light” now!
[YOUTUBE]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXkd9CnIfbg
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“Did you know we had a song on Brooklyn Nine-Nine?! Neither did we ;) Catch ‘Speed of Light’ in Season 4 Episode 16.”
– Little Reader
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“All praise the pop song with the ability to part the
clouds.” — Buzzbands.la
“Little Reader
have laboriously cemented their sun-bleached version of pop.” — Popdust
Little
Reader is Nashville-based
singer-songwriter Kate Tucker’s new and
unexpected pop music collaboration with Los Angeles-based songwriter and
guitarist, Ross Flournoy, late of Merge Records bands The Broken West and Apex Manor. The duo’s debut album The
Big Score, produced by Mark
Watrous of The Shins, is out
today. Stream The
Big Score at Spotify here.
The world is quickly discovering the pop songwriting
superpowers of these two, with Conan
O’Brien’s Team
Coco premiering the addictive music video for Little Reader’s first single “Speed
of Light” (featuring the life-affirming dance moves of Shan Turner-Carroll cutting a rug in Iceland), and the song recently surprising
the duo by popping up in an episode of Fox’s
award-winning sitcom hit “Brooklyn Nine-Nine.”
The fun vibes of Tucker
and Flournoy’s songs reflect their
personalities, as heard in this
Spotify playlist of “Pajama Jams” that they listened to while making The
Big Score, and as
seen in the first edition of their “Real
Talk With Little Reader and The Big Score” YouTube series.
“Kate lives in Nashville. Ross lives in LA. Communication is key,
so they talk every day” explains the premise of their
daily Skype interactions, which they record, edit, and then share. How did they arrive at the name Little Reader,
and how did they choose to call the album The Big Score? All is revealed in the first episode!
In addition to working on their own projects, Tucker and Flournoy have both found success writing for others in recent
years. If you’ve watched Jake Tapper’s
CNN show, then you’ve heard Flournoy’s theme music, and Tucker has found herself on stage at
the Sundance Film Festival for her
work in film scoring and soundtracks. Between the two of them, dozens of
television shows have used Tucker
and Flournoy’s songs.
So, when these two met for the first time, in the
hills over Los Angeles, it was merely to try writing together at the request of
their publisher Rough Trade, or as Tucker jokes, “It was basically as
blind a date as a co-write can be.” But, as we now know, the pair ultimately
decided to take it all the way, and soon, Flournoy
was in Nashville recording with Kate and her mates.
The Big Score by Little Reader is out
today. Little Reader is available
for interviews. Contact Josh Bloom
at Fanatic for more information.
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Little Reader
The
Big Score
Out Now
Track Listing:
01. Speed of Light (SOUNDCLOUD
| SPOTIFY | MP3
| VIDEO)
02. Running Toward the Sun
03. Burn Eternal (SOUNDCLOUD | SPOTIFY | MP3)
04. Give It
05. Light as a Feather
06. Disappearing One (SOUNDCLOUD
| SPOTIFY | MP3)
07. Love Lust Life
08. Strange Lightning
09. Best Regret
10. Here Forever
11. Point of No Return (Bonus Track)
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Little Reader Links
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Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic Promotion
