It was six months ago that State first stumbled across Take The Money And Run in their second home of the Spirit Store in Dundalk, eventually running out of winners of the battle of the bands that we had found ourselves judging. Their reward was time in the venue’s Tumbleweed Studio, the results of which are due to see the light of day this spring in their shape of their debut EP. Branching out from their Blondie influenced power pop origins to explore the delights of a more bipolar approach – including strings, pianos, flutes, cornets and even the odd banjo.