Release Date: 06.10.07

New Zealand five-piece The Checks deliver their debut album 'Hunting Whales' which has already produced two cracking singles 'What You Heard' and 'Take Me There' - the likes of which caught the ears of Oasis and REM to make these prodigious talents already crowned NZ Breakthrough Artist Of The Year and an NME favourite. Lauded "Full of dirty slinky rhythm and blues rock" by Rolling Stone and one of "The two best bands in Britain" by Noel Gallagher (the other being Kasabian), 'Hunting Whales' is an album from the ones to watch.

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The road from the squeaky-clean world of the Barbershop quartet to the gravel-throated, primal howl of the blues is perhaps one less travelled, but it's what's led scarily-young Auckland, NZ five-piece The Checks to the precipice of success in 2007. Since forming at the grand age of fifteen (they all hover between nineteen and twenty now), the band have had a meteoric rise in their native New Zealand,...

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