Pink Car

by racecar in Edinburgh, United Kingdom

We did it
On 21st April 2023 we successfully raised £21,231 with 110 supporters in 32 days

Help us to make our second album, Pink Car, all that it can be!

by racecar in Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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Izzy, Robin and Mason have been making music together since childhood. In 2018, we began writing for racecar, setting out to combine our favourite elements of music with a dedication to detail and unconstrained creativity.

In 2021 we recorded Orange Car; our debut album and the culmination of three years' songwriting, released in June 2022. Orange Car has since received an overwhelmingly positive response (to our delight!). We have toured the album around Scotland and Ireland, recorded live sessions for The Scotsman and featured in Scots Whay Hae and Fiona Liddell/ BBC Rapal's best music of 2022 features.

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“Mining from every corner of contemporary pop[...] racecar make it sound almost effortless, leading us to question why anyone would contrict themselves to just one style or genre anyway” Tallah Brash, The Skinny

“Orange Car is a confidently ambitious debut from a band who show no signs of slowing down” Scottish Music Network

“[Orange Car] boasts moments of love larger than any worldly objects, and tiny pulses of the heart that could destroy entire sound systems. Simultaneously the most consistent, confident, and fresh-sounding album of its year” JoLeKosovo, rateyourmusic

Our debut single, Flood, was chosen on release as BBC Introducing's Track of the Week. [spotify link]

Follow up Better Than You Know was chosen as BBC Scotland The Afternoon Show's Track of the Week [spotify link]


We are now thrilled to be working on our second album, Pink Car!

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We self-financed the creation and release of our first album at a personal cost of approximately £7,500.

Despite being very proud of Orange Car, we were ultimately limited by financial constraints. The Pink Car demo tracks that we have already recorded show huge promise and we believe that this music deserves to be realised to its full potential and are asking for your help to make this a reality!



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We are delighted that our project is part of the 2023 Creative Scotland Crowdmatch competition. Creative Scotland will match individual pledges from the crowd up to £10,000, and will match any individual pledge up to £250 like-for-like. So if you donate £20 to our cause, your donation will be matched with a £20 pledge from Creative Scotland, effectively doubling your donation!

Building a Pink Car

In creating Pink Car, we want to be able to work with a variety of local musicians and creators, and pay them all fairly for their work. We will therefore use any money raised for the following:

Studio time: we recorded Orange Car in Izzy’s mum’s living room but this time would like to take advantage of the superior equipment and expert input available in a professional studio. Estimated cost: £2,000.

Session musician hire: we would like to include more musicians on this second album, including a full brass band(!) and a string section. Estimated cost: £2,000.

Mixing and mastering: the more we raise, the more time we can spend in the studio making sure the album sounds as good as possible. Estimated cost: £2,500.

Promotion: once we have created the album, we want to make sure as many people as possible get to hear it, which means paying for professional promotion as well as our own efforts. Estimated cost: £4,000.

Music videos: we would like to make our first music videos to accompany the six singles we have selected from this album, hiring videographers and filmmakers. Estimated cost: £7,500.

Album launch: We would like to work with a variety of musicians and engineers to create our most ambitious set yet at the album launch, and to bring the songs of Pink Car to life in a live setting. Estimated cost: £2,000.



Help us to realise Pink Car and receive fabulous rewards!       

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Rewards

This project offers rewards in return for your donation. Please select a reward below.

£5 or more

Pink Car Credit

Thank you so much for donating your money to help us make this album! We will list you in the credits on our physical Pink Car USB sticks, and we are eternally grateful you chose to donate.

£10 or more

Pink Car Digital Download

One high fidelity digital download of Pink Car, sent to you before the album is available on streaming platforms.

£20 or more

Pink Car Physical and Digital Download

A pink car-shaped USB stick containing a high fidelity copy of Pink Car and bonus content, plus one early access digital download of Pink Car.

£30 or more

Pink Car T-shirt

One Pink Car t-shirt, with embroidered logo, in your chosen size.

£50 or more

Pink Car plus Album Launch

A car-shaped USB stick containing a high fidelity copy of Pink Car and bonus content, plus one early access digital download of Pink Car; also, and a slot on the guestlist to the Pink Car album launch (date and venue TBC).

£50 or more

Pink Car Merchandise Package

For those who can't make our gig, but love swag, here's a NEW tier offering the full merchandise range, including a car-shaped USB stick containing a high fidelity copy of Pink Car (and bonus content), a beautifully embroidered PK T-shirt, and a cool PK patch!

£75 or more

Pink Car, Merch and Album Launch

Both physical car-shaped USB stick and digital copies of Pink Car, one t-shirt with embroidered racecar logo in your chosen size, and a slot on the guestlist for the Pink Car album launch (date and venue TBC).

£100 or more

Pink Car, Merch, Album Launch and After Party

An early access download of Pink Car, a Pink Car USB containing the album, one t-shirt with embroidered racecar logo in your chosen size, a slot on the guestlist to the album launch, and a ticket to the Pink Car after party! (date and venue TBC)

£250 or more

The Pink Car Package

A custom-made Pink Car USB stick, personalised with your name, an early access high fidelity digital copy of Pink Car, one t-shirt with embroidered racecar logo in your chosen size, an invitation to an intimate listening party for Pink Car (with refreshments!) prior to the release of the album, a slot on the guestlist for the Pink Car album launch and a ticket to the after party (date and venue of all events TBC).

£300 or more

Dare Us!

Pick a dare for us and we will do our best to complete it! (racecar will not engage in illegal, violent, impossible or otherwise unacceptable dares)

£500 or more

Live Show

Book racecar for a 45-minute full band live show in a venue of your choice. (Shows reserved to within 150 miles of Edinburgh; racecar reserve the right to refuse gigs depending on date and venue).

£200 or more

5 of 5 claimed

racekarts

Come go-karting with us! We will go on a day out go-karting, and the winner gets a pink car cup with their name on reg plate plus physical and digital copies of Pink Car. We will find out who the true racecars are.

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