THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Sacred Paws have a natural inclination not to take things too seriously. You can hear it in conversation with guitarist Ray Aggs and drummer Eilidh Rodgers, as they punctuate their words with rolls of giggles and thoughtful pauses. And you can hear it in the light touch they bring to their music, a jangly blend of indie-pop full of fizzing world rhythms and bright horns.
Shimmering guitar riffs dance between snappy beats and swooning melodies that will have crowds committing to far more than a simple head-bob. “I think we’d get bored if it was too slow,” Eilidh says. “We’d never want to play something live that people couldn’t dance to. It would feel really strange to us. It’s kind of the whole point.”
Jump Into Life, their lush and layered new album, takes the roots of the project and breathes fresh life into it as it blossoms into something even more colorful than before — a skewing of the duo’s recognizable sound that feels wildly thrilling. With their signature sense of fervor, Sacred Paws continue to hurtle forward, jumping into life, embracing that forward motion rather than lingering in the shadows of life’s messiness. Full of endearing energy and buoyed by new sounds, textures, and character, Jump Into Life is a callback and an evolution, unafraid to reveal its warm and heavy beating heart, even with all the anxiety that entails.”
