New Bums: "Black Bough"
Ben Chasny (Six Organs of Admittance) and Donovan Quinn (Skygreen Leopards) are releasing a collaborative new effort as New Bums. The album is called Voices in a Rented Room and is slated for release in February of 2014 via Drag City. A new single, "Black Bough," has surfaced and it sounds like dudes drunk on Blue Moon making Mazzy folk. You can check it out here:
All info comes courtesy of Rarely Unable.
BEN CHASNY OF SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE + DONOVAN QUINN OF SKYGREEN LEOPARDS ARE NEW BUMS! DEBUT ALBUM, VOICES IN A RENTED ROOM, OUT FEBRUARY 17, 2014 ON DRAG CITY
New Bums is the grudging match-up of Donovan Quinn (Skygreen Leopards) and Ben Chasny (Six Organs of Admittance, Comets on Fire, 200 Years, Rangda and who's hiring?). They didn't like each other at first, but now make sweet and sour music together over the light of the magical Sterno. The ideas go back and forth between the two in what seems to be a true partnership. Their songs are all that: songs, with lyrics set in a space to speak to the human buried in you. People's music, with all the stark confessions, tall tales, bleak humours and punch lines the people can bear. The voices are two, spinning harmonies, both heavenly. Behind the acoustics and voices is lots of space, but there are a few extra instruments that come and go as the boys move from stately processional to street corner sing-around to bluesy weeper to low-rolling rock ‘n roll and back again. This is guitars music - slide-guitar lines erupt in the dark night air and classical-tinged filigrees curl around the tarnished and rusting edges throughout.
Picking their direction and floating along on a pair of acoustics, New Bums are the sound of Old Drunk America, dancing out of the shadows, coming forth again to stand in the light, in the hopes of re-populating those sad old single-occupancy hotels before they're all torn down. After releasing the “Slim Volume” single earlier this year, the duo is set to release debut full-length, Voices in a Rented Room, on February 17th, 2014 via Drag City Records. Preview New Bums’ sharp-cornered clarity below via Voices In A Rented Room’s opening track, “Black Bough”
https://soundcloud.com/drag-city/new-bums-black-bough/
Voices In A Rented Room tracklisting:
01. Black Bough
02. Pigeon Town
03. Your Girlfriend Might Be A Cop
04. Sometimes You Crash
05. The Killers and Me
06. Your Bullsh*t
07. It’s the Way
08. Welcome to the Navy
09. Burned
10. Town on the Water
11. Mother’s Favorite Hated Son
12. Cool Daughter
Sincerely,
Letters From A Tapehead
All info comes courtesy of Rarely Unable.
BEN CHASNY OF SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE + DONOVAN QUINN OF SKYGREEN LEOPARDS ARE NEW BUMS! DEBUT ALBUM, VOICES IN A RENTED ROOM, OUT FEBRUARY 17, 2014 ON DRAG CITY
New Bums is the grudging match-up of Donovan Quinn (Skygreen Leopards) and Ben Chasny (Six Organs of Admittance, Comets on Fire, 200 Years, Rangda and who's hiring?). They didn't like each other at first, but now make sweet and sour music together over the light of the magical Sterno. The ideas go back and forth between the two in what seems to be a true partnership. Their songs are all that: songs, with lyrics set in a space to speak to the human buried in you. People's music, with all the stark confessions, tall tales, bleak humours and punch lines the people can bear. The voices are two, spinning harmonies, both heavenly. Behind the acoustics and voices is lots of space, but there are a few extra instruments that come and go as the boys move from stately processional to street corner sing-around to bluesy weeper to low-rolling rock ‘n roll and back again. This is guitars music - slide-guitar lines erupt in the dark night air and classical-tinged filigrees curl around the tarnished and rusting edges throughout.
Picking their direction and floating along on a pair of acoustics, New Bums are the sound of Old Drunk America, dancing out of the shadows, coming forth again to stand in the light, in the hopes of re-populating those sad old single-occupancy hotels before they're all torn down. After releasing the “Slim Volume” single earlier this year, the duo is set to release debut full-length, Voices in a Rented Room, on February 17th, 2014 via Drag City Records. Preview New Bums’ sharp-cornered clarity below via Voices In A Rented Room’s opening track, “Black Bough”
https://soundcloud.com/drag-city/new-bums-black-bough/
Voices In A Rented Room tracklisting:
01. Black Bough
02. Pigeon Town
03. Your Girlfriend Might Be A Cop
04. Sometimes You Crash
05. The Killers and Me
06. Your Bullsh*t
07. It’s the Way
08. Welcome to the Navy
09. Burned
10. Town on the Water
11. Mother’s Favorite Hated Son
12. Cool Daughter
Sincerely,
Letters From A Tapehead
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