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Now a trio, Pulled Apart By Horses have confirmed the release of their new record Reality Cheques on September 30th.
Sessions took place at the The Nave in Leeds with producer Matt Peel and an eye on some more classic rock influences for the band than may have been cited in the past.
“Our musical tastes change monthly, never mind over the course of the years, so we are never going to be the kind of band who’d do the same album every time,” Tom Hudson says.
Okkervil River‘s Will Sheff has announced the details of his debut solo album Nothing Special.
“When I was just a kid, I got caught up in the dream of being a rock and roll star,” he says, alluding to the album’s title.
“Like so many other young people, I fell in love with the idea of being called to this glorious path outside of ordinary life. And I ended up in a band with people who felt this same call – especially our brilliant drummer Travis Nelsen, who was like a brother to me.”
Jesse Tabish has released Da Da from his forthcoming Cowboy Ballads Part 1 LP which is due on October 21st.
This is the second taste of the album and sees the Other Lives frontman reflecting on, ‘the absurdity of the American dream’.
“The Dada movement of the early 20th century was about absurdity,” he says. “This song was inspired by the next four years to come after the 2016 American election.”
The Lounge Society have premiered the video for their new single Upheaval with debut album Tired Of Liberty set for release on August 26th.
Ahead of the album’s release, the band were in conversation with Live4ever for our recently published big read when inspirations, labels and ambitions were all topics of conversation.
“The themes of lockdown, or at least what that does to your mentality, inevitably feed into the record,” they told us.
Sports Team have released The Drop from their second album Gulp! which is now due on September 23rd.
The video was directed by A.T. Mann, who embraced the theme of living in the present: “When I stepped through the sonic journey of The Drop I dreamed of a poet caught in his own urban web of city lights, stuck there as the mind is being lost, knowing there is only one way out – letting it all go.”
“Letting all the nonsense boundaries drop, taking the one leap into the unknown like the soul of the acrobat about to fly – or fall – stepping along the highwire of the one important quest – Creation. This reminded me of a beatnik poem by Laurence Ferenghetti called ‘Constantly Risking Absurdity’.”
