Happenings: Tipsy Eyes remix Ricochet from Supercaan’s sophomore album, A Tiger Walks the Street

Birmingham-based indie/post-punk outfit Supercaan released their eponymous debut album back in 2019. 2024 sees A Tiger Walks the Street hit the shelves and airwaves, and our good friend Tipsy Eyes (Matt Smith) has teamed up with the band to remix featured track Ricochet.

Tipsy Eyes takes Supercaan’s dark wave indie anthem and flips it into a choral drenched soundtrack epic. “I was lucky enough to be standing right next to Supercaan at the Radio Wigwam awards as they won Best Song back in January. They’re such lovely guys and very deserving of the accolade. On hearing Zoetrope, I really wanted to make a remix for them and they let me take Ricochet somewhere completely different,” says Matt.

A Tiger Walks the Street sees the band come face to face with their biggest anxieties. The record’s title stems from a line in their existential, glitchy anthemic set closer Nagoro, which shares its name with an eerie rural Japanese village where faded handmade scarecrow dolls have replaced a population drawn to the brighter lights of the cities.

“I saw that village as a metaphor for the cost of progress,” says lyricist Tom Whitfield. “The album represents a children’s book with each track manifesting as a fable. We’re not young men anymore, we have families, and this album is written for them.” says Whitfield. “There’s a slightly naïve wisdom in those tracks that conjures up the idea of a fable.”

Frontman Greg Milner, who is a photographer by day, carries the metaphor through into the album’s artwork featuring painted wooden toy blocks that create a paradox by evoking both childhood innocence and the rigid structure of society.

You can pick up the vinyl edition of A Tiger Walks the Street on Bandcamp and Norman Records. You can also keep up with the latest news from Supercaan by following them on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter.