April, 2020 | Cadence Recordings

THE TREBLE’S ANTICIPATED FULL-LENGTH RIVALS OUT NOW

April 24, 2020 by Cadence Recordings

80's Inspired Music Video, Annie Lennox, DEVO, George Michael, No Secret (There For You), Rivals, Ryan Worsley, Talking Heads, The Treble, WHAM

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“NO SECRETS (THERE FOR YOU)”

(Toronto, ON – April 24, 2020) – Today, alt-rock group The Treble are celebrating the release of their anticipated full-length album Rivals. The band have been teasing tracks from the album since last year, and today fans can finally listen in its entirety here.

The Treble are also excited to share the self-produced official video for their new single “No Secrets (There For You)”. The video sees the band recreating 45 iconic music videos from the 80s including clips from DEVO, Talking Heads, George Michael and many more. “The video is a hilarious shot for shot remake of a bunch of our favourite videos from the 80s.” says the band. “We had started the project pre-quarantine, but thankfully the concept made it something we could continue during the lockdown. We each filmed separately on green screens to complete the project and came out with one of the most fun videos we’ve worked on to date!” Check it out here and see how many videos you can spot: https://youtu.be/Xcu1_zuI8fI

On the inspiration behind the track, “My friend and his girlfriend broke up because she thought he was stepping out. He was actually too embarrassed to tell her he was playing Pokémon Go. “No Secrets (There For You) is a song about trust. It’s about being so afraid to be yourself around someone, that you drive them away because you’ve become someone else. We are afraid to show people who we are, but when we don’t, we can become the worst of the little pieces that we give them. Love is a risk.”

Rivals, produced by Ryan Worsley and the band, follows The Treble’s 2018 releaseModernaires. The band’s tracks have been streamed over 1.7 million times and have been featured on some of Spotify’s biggest playlists including Rock Favourites, Ready To Rock, Indie Favourites, Alternative Generation and Rock Your Block. They also recently performed at The Edge’s Sugar Beach Sessions and forIndie88’s Black Box session. Be sure to watch the band’s recent videos for “Eyes On Us,” “Fix of You” and “Saturday Night”.

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THAD COCKRELL MAKES ATO RECORDS DEBUT WITH THRILLINGLY UNPREDICTABLE IF IN CASE YOU FEEL THE SAME OUT JUNE 26TH

April 21, 2020 by Cadence Recordings

Devon Gilfillian, If in Case You Feel The Same, Joseph, Joy Williams, LEAGUES, Mathew Caws, Nada Surf, Shawn Everett, Thad Cockrell, Tony Berg

PRODUCED BY TONY BERG (PHOEBE BRIDGERS, ANDREW BIRD), ALBUM FEATURES CONTRIBUTIONS FROM BRITTANY HOWARD, BLAKE MILLS, CHRIS DAVE, MATT CHAMBERLAIN, ETHAN GRUSKA

AND IAN FITCHUK

HEAR FIRST SINGLE “SWINGIN” HERE

(Toronto, ON – April 21, 2020) – Thad Cockrell will release his ATO Records debut If in Case You Feel the Same on June 26th. Produced mainly by Tony Berg (an industry veteran who’s worked with everyone from Phoebe Bridgers to the Replacements), If in Case You Feel the Same taps into the tremendous depth of expression Thad has brought to co-writing for such artists as Joy Williams (on her GRAMMY-nominated 2019 album Front Porch), Joseph, Devon Gilfillian and Mathew Caws of Nada Surf, as well as his much-beloved band LEAGUES. Buoyed by the support of Brittany Howard, whom he first met over a 4 a.m. pitcher of homemade margaritas, Cockrell set to work on his first solo effort in over a decade: an album that exposes his deepest insecurities and weaknesses, all for the sake of creating a transcendent connection with the audience.

Mixed and engineered by Shawn Everett (Vampire Weekend, Beck, The War on Drugs), the album features an all-star backing band appearing on various songs throughout – Howard (backing vocals on album standout “Higher”), Blake Mills (guitar), Chris Dave (drums), Matt Chamberlain (drums), Ethan Gruska (piano, synths), Ian Fitchuk (multiple instruments). If in Case You Feel the Same pushes beyond the understated country of Cockrell’s earliest work to illuminate his more idiosyncratic impulses. In dreaming up the album’s thrillingly unpredictable sonic palette, Cockrell built off a batch of recordings he’d self-produced in Nashville with the help of some of his closest musician-friends. Upon heading to Berg’s L.A. studio (then to the legendary Sound City) to complete the production process, he then took care to preserve the intimacy of those original recordings, lending the album a raw vitality that exponentially magnifies its emotional power.

Throughout If in Case You Feel the Same, Cockrell reveals his rare ability to create songs that instantly hit on a visceral level, yet subtly invite intense contemplation. Cockrell even created an inadvertent anthem for our current pandemic-focused lives with the album’s heavy-hearted yet triumphant lead single “Swingin’,” which features Gruska on synths. The song swells into its wildly defiant chorus, where Cockrell sings “If I’m gonna go down/I wanna go down swingin’.” “What more fitting time than now to bring people together with a sense of feeling the same,” says Cockrell. “And we’re gonna get through this together by fighting for each other. If we’re gonna go down, let’s go down swinging.”

There’s a palpable sense of communion that infuses all of If in Case You Feel the Same, including Cockrell’s collaborations with Howard. An ardent fan of the Alabama Shakes frontwoman, Cockrell first linked up with Howard thanks to a wholly unexpected introduction from his dear friend, singer/songwriter Becca Mancari. “I never wanted Becca to feel like a pass-through, so I put it out into the universe that if I was meant to meet Britt, it would just happen someday,” says Cockrell. One very late night while hanging out with Howard, Mancari shared some recordings of Cockrell’s songs, which then prompted Howard to hijack Mancari’s phone and send Cockrell a text professing her love for his music. “Twenty minutes later they’re walking into my house, and I’m making mezcal margaritas and playing Britt songs from the new album,” says Cockrell. “At some point she said me, ‘I never like anything, but I love all of this.'” Soon enough, Howard had sent Cockrell’s demos to ATO Records general manager Jon Salter, thus paving the way for his signing to the label.

With its subtle suggestion of emotional risk and possible reward, the album’s title came to Cockrell as a sudden revelation while walking through Nashville’s Shelby Bottoms in the middle of the winter. “I was looking for a concept that was big enough to house all these different songs and ideas, and when that title struck me I got chills,” he says. “I love the inclusivity of it: how it holds space for oneself, but also holds space for others.”

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CHICANO BATMAN RELEASE “BLANK SLATE”

April 21, 2020 by Cadence Recordings

ATO Records, Blank Slate, Chicano Batman, Dance Jam, Funk, Invisible People, Psych-Funk, Shawn Everett

NEW ALBUM INVISIBLE PEOPLE OUT MAY 1

ON ATO RECORDS

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(Toronto, ON – April 21, 2020) – Today, Chicano Batman releases “Blank Slate” from their forthcoming album Invisible People set for a May 1st release via ATO Records. With a Rick James-esque thumping bass line and a Daft Punk mono synth inspired guitar solo, the track finds the perfect harmony between modern and 80’s funk.

Listen/share: https://youtu.be/v0otjCuTcI8

“It was the first song that we dug our heels into,” Martinez says about the track. “It was our Blank Slate…so I also approached the lyrics from that angle but applied it to my personal life at the time to create the typical love song dance jam.”

NICK HAKIM SHARES NEW SONG “CRUMPY” FEATURING MAC DEMARCO ON GUITAR

April 21, 2020 by Cadence Recordings

ATO Records, Best New Track, Crumpy, Mac DeMarco, Nick Hakim, Pitchfork, QADIR, Will This Make Me Good

NEW ALBUM WILL THIS MAKE ME GOOD

OUT MAY 15TH VIA ATO RECORDS

“CRUMPY”

LISTEN: https://youtu.be/Li1aCaoAnCw

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(Toronto, ON – April 21, 2020) – Today, Nick Hakim shares a new song from his forthcoming album WILL THIS MAKE ME GOOD out May 15th via ATO Records. “CRUMPY” walks through Hakim’s mind as he pleads with a lover to return home with him before it slowly fades out into a beautiful instrumental soundscape. The track features additional guitar from Mac DeMarco and is the second offering from the album following the heart of the album “QADIR,” which came with a Nelson Nance-directed visual and was named Best New Track by Pitchfork among other critical praise.

While WILL THIS MAKE ME GOOD is distinctly Nick Hakim, it does represent a tonal shift from 2017’s Green Twins that reflects the ideas with which he grappled while making the record. To prepare listeners for the experience, Hakim shares the following statement about the record:

“I feel the people simmering, on our way to the boiling point. There’s a lot of madness going on around us and this world can feel so cold. It can get hard to remember what makes it worth it. The people around me and the music I love helps.

For a while, I couldn’t write. I worked on new music but couldn’t find the right words. But that time was just a build-up to the three months of expression that led to this album. I hope this music will raise awareness about where we are right now. About how we are living on this planet. About how we treat our neighbors. About community. About depression. About what can heal us and what can’t. About overmedication, overstimulation and manipulation. About respecting and loving the people around us, because one day they won’t be here-or you won’t.

But it’s also true that I’m still trying to figure this record out. People have told me that it’s confusing or that it’s messy-that’s fine. There’s so much pressure on artists to commit to being one thing, or to restrict an album to exploring just one subject or sound. But my life isn’t like that, and so my music can’t be like that either. I’m not thinking about this music as a product to be bought and sold, or how I’ll buy your interest. This is my world; a lot of friends touched this record, and that makes me feel lucky and proud. These songs are glimpses into my community. I’m exploring, but I’m not alone. It’s a journey in progress; it’s an experiment, every day.”

WILL THIS MAKE ME GOOD also follows his contribution on Lianne La Havas’ forthcoming album and his songs with Anderson .Paak (“Headlow”), frequent collaborators Onyx Collective (“My Funny Valentine”), Sporting Life (“Approach”), and IGBO (“Titas (Beloved Ones)”) and his feature on Nappy Nina’s “What You Want” with Ambrose Akinmusire and Slingbaum’s “Strangers” alongside FKA Twigs and Oumou Sangaré.

Listen to “CRUMPY” above, see album details below, and stay tuned for more from Nick Hakim coming soon.

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WILL THIS MAKE ME GOOD

ATO Records

May 15, 2020

1. ALL THESE CHANGES

2. WTMMG

3. BOUNCING

4. LET IT OUT

5. QADIR

6. ALL THESE INSTRUMENTS

7. DRUM THING

8. VINCENT TYLER

9. CRUMPY

10. GODS DIRTY WORK

11. SEEING DOUBLE

12. WHOO

About Nick Hakim:

Confusion. Repetition. Musical hypnosis and drum patterns. Hope. Cities underwater. Kindness. The texture of a community. Care. For the last couple years this is some of what’s occupied Nick Hakim. The New York-based musician works out of a pleasantly cluttered loft studio in Ridgewood, and like so much of the city, it’s a neighborhood of deep history that’s in flux; if you spend even a little time there you might start to wonder about what the future holds, and what it means to be someone’s neighbor. Hakim’s been wondering about it, and his new album WILL THIS MAKE ME GOOD is something like a response.

In 2017, Hakim’s debut album, the critically acclaimed Green Twins, announced the singer-songwriter as an idiosyncratic talent, making music that resists genre classification. You could work a song of his into an HBO original series, as Insecure did; you could smoke to it and wonder about your ego; you could slow dance with the person you love-it’s not versatility, so much as a lack of boundaries and a strong sense of intuition. It drew on the music Hakim listened to growing up in Washington D.C. with his older brother and parents, who emigrated to the States from Peru: American soul music and political folk from South America; Go-go and hardcore.

The time since Green Twins has been complicated; you can hear it in the swirling sprawl of his sophomore release WILL THIS MAKE ME GOOD. Hakim lost a notebook of new songs during a trip overseas not long after Green Twins came out. He tried to recall from memory those drafts and the fight to do so resulted in writer’s block. Musical ideas still came and he worked with his peers, some including Onyx Collective, Anderson .Paak, Jesse and Forever, Lianne La Havas, and Slingbaum-but when it came time to write his own songs, lyrics eluded him. Then a childhood friend passed away.

“He was a little younger than me, but we had a similar path,” Hakim says. “We both had trouble in school and switched schools a lot. He was the youngest in his family and his older sisters asked me to watch out for him.” Affected deeply by his passing, Hakim struggled to articulate his feelings in the wake of the tragedy.

He recalls advice from a close collaborator, Andrew Sarlo, who told him during this difficult period, “Pretend there’s no audience. Don’t think about an outside perspective.” By turning inward, Hakim found a way to express himself and the first song that emerged addressed his departed friend. “QADIR” is the longest song in Hakim’s catalogue; it’s the heart of WILL THIS MAKE ME GOOD, originally an 11-minute epic that builds to a shattering vocal performance accompanied by a ten-person chorus. “If I really sink into a recording, I don’t want it to end,” Hakim says. “It’s repetitive and hypnotizing, like a trance-that’s intentional. The song is my ode to him. It’s my attempt to relate to how he must have been feeling.”

He sings about how “there’s a complexity to being kind”-to yourself, to your space, to your community. “That’s a direct reflection of the neighborhoods that I’ve experienced across the East Coast, from Washington D.C. to Baltimore to Philadelphia to New York to Boston-all places I have ties to,” he explains. Accepting everyone around you is a daily task; it’s also a reminder to keep close the people you love, because nothing is promised. “When I heard of Qadir’s passing I hadn’t checked in on him in a while,” Hakim admits. “I say ‘we’ in the first verse of ‘QADIR’ but I really feel like I’m talking to myself.”

WILL THIS MAKE ME GOOD is a question Hakim has asked himself since he was young and struggling in school, when he was prescribed medication in an attempt to correct his wayward attention. It’s a question he still wonders about, and if the album sounds messy, it’s because there are no easy answers to its query. “I’m still trying to figure out what the record is about,” he says. One thing’s for certain though-it is a reflection of what’s happening in his head as he sorts through his life and the tumult around the globe that can’t help but seep in. WILL THIS MAKE ME GOOD articulates a sense of confusion alongside a desire for hope and clarity. Another bravura epic, “Bouncing” describes sleepless nights spent looking for some calm. “It’s such a dark climate these days,” Hakim says, “with what’s going on politically and how immigrants are being treated here in the US. The travel ban, the camps.”

“Sinking down these thoughts at night,” he sings on “BOUNCING” over heavy drums and distortion, his voice a pinched whisper. Across the album, Hakim treats his voice like an instrument to be played in various ways. “All These Instruments,” which was written with his brother, Danny, is a moment where his vocals rings clear. Hakim sings over delicate acoustic guitar about the “strange powers” musical instruments have. “It’s been so damn hard to find some peace/In a world that’s so damn cold and mean,” he sings.

If there’s any possibility of reprieve from that coldness and meanness, it’s in fingers on guitar strings, in the voice of someone you love, close to your ear. That’s something that could make any of us good, if only for a spell.

Rodrigo y Gabriela Release New Single “Gamma State”

April 15, 2020 by Cadence Recordings

Best Contemporary Instrumental Album, Gamma State, Grammy Award Winner, Mettavolution, No Depression, NPR, Pitchfork, Rodrigo y Gabriela

Playing YouTube Live Stream Concert This Thursday April 16

Grammy Award-Winning Album Mettavolution Out Now on ATO Records

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“Rodrigo y Gabriela has a hard act to follow every time they release an album: themselves… Their career offers insight into how creative you can be with just two guitars.” – NPR

“Mettavolution reassures that for as long as they’re around, Rodrigo y Gabriela will be echoing their influences as only they can.” – PITCHFORK

“Beauty, anguish, and euphoria, it’s all here, wrapped up in a visceral earthly music struggling toward enlightenment.” – NO DEPRESSION

(Toronto, ON – April 15, 2020) – World-renowned acoustic guitar duo Rodrigo y Gabriela won the Grammy for Best Contemporary Instrumental Album earlier this year for their virtuosic fifth record Mettavolution, and today they share their thrilling new single “Gamma State.” Originally written during the Mettavolution sessions, the track is now streaming across all platforms. Listen to “Gamma State” HERE.

Rodrigo y Gabriela have been keeping busy in quarantine in their Ixtapa, Mexico studio, performing for their fans on Instagram on a daily basis. They recently covered Rage Against The Machine’s “Killing In The Name Of” and launched a Dua Lipa Cover Song Challenge, covering the pop star’s smash hit “Don’t Start Now”and challenging their friends and fans to record their own versions of the track and tag @rodrigoygabriela on Instagram. “The idea is to bring fresh music performances into our world today no matter what so we can enjoy and heal at the same time,” they say.

This Thursday, April 16, Rodrigo y Gabriela will be performing a concert from their studio on YouTube Live. The show starts at 4pm EDT / 1pm PDT / 9pm BST and will be streaming HERE.

Three years in the making, Mettavolution brings together Rodrigo y Gabriela’s passionate interest in Buddhism, the history of human evolution and the liberation of the potential we have as a species; all expressed through the medium of two acoustic guitars. The album features six original tracks and an incredible 19-minute cover of Pink Floyd’s “Echoes” and was recorded with Grammy-winning producer Dave Sardy (Oasis, LCD Soundsystem). It debuted at #1 on Billboard’s Americana/Folk Albums chart upon its 2019 release, also arriving at #2 on Rock Albums and #10 on Top Album Sales. The record received praise from NPR, The New York Times, Rolling Stone, Pitchfork, and more, and the duo performed on Jimmy Kimmel Live and BBC’s The One Show before their triumphant Grammy win in February. Listen to Mettavolution HERE.

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FOUR-TIME GRAMMY® WINNER BRITTANY HOWARD RELEASES SPOTIFY SINGLE

April 15, 2020 by Cadence Recordings

ATO Records, Brittany Howard, Electric Lady Studios, Funkadelic, Spotify Singles, Stay High, You And Your Folks Me And My Folks

Howard Offers Fresh Takes On Her No. 1 Hit, “Stay High,” And Funkadelic’s “You And Your Folks, Me And My Folks”

(Toronto, ON – April 15, 2020) – Brittany Howard has recorded a new version of her No. 1 AAA radio hit, “Stay High,” for the Spotify Singles program. Produced by Spotify’s William Garrett and recorded with her full band and background vocalists, the track is brimming with warmth and joy. The B-side is Howard’s powerful interpretation of Funkadelic’s “You And Your Folks, Me And My Folks.” The song – which originally appeared on Funkadelic’s classic 1971 album, Maggot Brain– takes on fresh urgency as a call to trust and provide for one another. Released today, the single is now available for streaming here.

Driving more than three billion streams since the program began in 2017, Spotify Singles was created to give artists an opportunity to record new versions of their own songs, and the songs of the artists they love. While the majority of the Singles are recorded at the legendary Electric Lady Studios in NYC, Brittany’s was recorded at East West Studios in LA. The Singles scope includes a unique version of each artist’s own song (Side A) and a cover song of their choosing (Side B). To date, there have been over 300 Singles recorded as part of the program.

“Stay High” was the first single from Jaime, Howard’s debut solo album. The trackspent three weeks at No. 1 on Billboard’s Adult Alternative Songs chart and was Public Radio’s Most Popular Song of 2019. Views of the official video, which stars Terry Crews (“Everybody Hates Chris,” The Expendables films, Deadpool 2), have surpassed eight million.The New York Times hailed “Stay High” as “blissful” and Pitchfork noted,”her easygoing warmth makes ‘Stay High’ worth repeating.” Refinery29 said, “This feel-good gem will get you through any rough times and slap a smile back on your face.”

Jaime was awarded four stars by Rolling Stone, MOJO and Q and named the Best Album of 2019 by NPR. It is up for the Libera Award for Album of the Year, presented by the American Association of Independent Music, and earned Howard a GLAAD Media Awards nomination for Outstanding Music Artist. The track “History Repeats” received two GRAMMY nominations.

Howard won four GRAMMY Awards in her role as lead vocalist/guitarist for the chart-topping band Alabama Shakes. She has performed everywhere from the Obama White House to the main stage at Lollapalooza, where she sang with Paul McCartney at his invitation.

OTHER LIVES RELEASE DEVASTATING NEW SINGLE “WE WAIT” + ITS TRAGIC BACKSTORY

April 6, 2020 by Cadence Recordings

ATO Records, Consequence of Sound, Folk Rock, For Their Love, Homage to a Close Friend, KCRW, MTV, New York Times, Other Lives, The Guardian, We Wait

NEW ALBUM FOR THEIR LOVE OUT APRIL 24

VIA ATO RECORDS

photo by: Michael Mackay Valentine

“A band without limits.” – The Guardian

“A lush, intricate sound… charismatic and emotional.” – New York Times

“Majestic, pastoral folk-rock.” – KCRW

“Full of layers and rich atmosphere, a beautiful partnership between folk and classical music.” – MTV

“Dynamic and expansive.” – Consequence of Sound

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(Toronto, ON – April 6, 2020) – Today Other Lives release their new single “We Wait,” the latest preview of their forthcoming new album For Their Love, due out April 24 on ATO Records. It is also the most intimate song frontman Jesse Tabish has ever written. An homage to a tragically lost close friend, “We Wait” finds Tabish confronting one of the darkest corners of his past for the first time. Tabish shared the track’s devastating backstory and how it shaped his musical career in a statement:

When I was 15, I formed the All American Rejects. This was my high school band. Always there in our everyday life were Tommy and Jennifer, a member’s older sister and brother-in-law. Tommy was the older brother I never had. Kind and wise, he was my mentor and family to me.

Tommy was shot and killed at the age of 25, on the morning of 30th November. Jennifer, his wife, had hired his murderer.

This event completely devastated and shattered my reality. I quit the Rejects and was very lost. I soon found the piano and started moving towards a deeper place inside, artistically, which has shaped me to this day. For many years, I had avoided this trauma and couldn’t touch the subject. I pushed it out, only for it to haunt me more recently.

Writing this song is the way for me to heal and remember my old pal, Tommy.

For Their Love is due out April 24 and is available for pre-order HERE. Don’t miss the previously released videos for “Lost Day” and “Hey Hey I,” both filmed in the A-frame home studio in the Oregon mountains where the band recorded the album. American Songwriter calls “Hey Hey I” “a great remedy for the quarantine blues… A song about hard times, but expressed in a joyous and communal spirit.”

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When Other Lives emerged from Oklahoma, their sweeping, cinematic arrangements and haunting, wistful melodies had an extra side effect: the uncanny ability to evoke big skies and broad horizons, as if the band’s DNA was the wide-open space of their home state’s prairies. Breaking through with their 2011 album Tamer Animals, MOJO labelled Other Lives, “The next must-have pastoral American sensation”, and judging by their new album, For Their Love, Other Lives have continued to grow: it’s their most evocative, awestruck and intimate record yet, invested with a new vein of poetic thought addressing the individual and society in these turbulent times.

The album takes its name from one of the earlier tracks written for the album. “Something about the title feels both inclusive and also of a larger scene,” explains Other Lives’ creative lynchpin and frontman, Jesse Tabish. “The song also embodied the direction we wanted to take.”

In terms of Other Lives’ narrative, the direction For Their Love followed is partly a return while embodying a new chapter. The story began in the town of Stillwater in 2009, with Other Lives’ self-titled debut, produced by Joey Waronker (Beck, R.E.M, Atoms For Peace), followed by Tamer Animals, broadening their horizons with dazzling orchestration and instrumentation that reflected Tabish’s love of minimalism, neo-classical music and soundtrack genius, Ennio Morricone.

The band’s core trio of Jesse Tabish (piano, guitar, lead vocals), Jonathon Mooney (piano, violin, guitar, percussion, trumpet) and Josh Onstott (bass, keys, percussion, guitar, backing vocals) then moved out west to Portland. “Stillwater is a college town and being perpetually surrounded by 21-year-olds eventually got to me,” Tabish recalls. “And we’d always liked Portland and its politics.”

In their new north-western base, the band made their third album, Rituals, released in 2015. The exquisitely ornate 54-minute, 14-track opus further pushed the boundaries of the band’s compositional ambitions, infusing a subtle use of electronics. At the same time, “working with a computer means you can layer parts forever,” Tabish reflects. “I’d forgotten how to pick up a guitar and sing a song, to be more physical and primal with the music. On For Their Love, we’re playing again as a band, with a clear definition of parts.”

It helped that the band had reconnected again with rural life when Tabish left Portland, renting a friend’s beautiful A-frame house in Oregon’s Cooper Mountain region, surrounded by towering trees and no neighbours in sight. In this bucolic setting, the trio set about making For Their Love.

“My wife, Kim, and I moving to this house and making a new life and music together was a huge part of this record,” Tabish says. “I found there was too much distraction in Portland, but here we could dedicate ourselves to work. I found that I returned to my music vocabulary in a natural way, using certain types of chords or keys, and also the way I sing. Living with roommates in Portland, I was too shy to sing in front of them. But here, I felt free.”

The sense of freedom and togetherness carried over to the way For Their Love was made: from start to finish, it’s Other Lives’ most collaborative album. This includes the contributions of Rituals drummer, Danny Reisch and of Kim Tabish, whose layered backing vocals amplify the album’s cinematic aura. “We really set out to make a band record,” Tabish says. This extended to self-producing for the first time since 2006 – Mooney also engineered the album.

As For Their Love came together, the band avoided re-working and refining tracks (as they had on Rituals), choosing instead to record different arrangements of songs, “to capture the vibe of something more instant,” Tabish explains. “We were adamant that For Their Love would have no tricks, and nothing to hide behind, which we’d been doing psychologically as well as musically. We wanted ten songs that held up by themselves.”

Part of Tabish’s personal efforts to emerge from ‘hiding’ was re-engaging with the outside world, “getting real with myself,” as he puts it. A tight band of friends, the band had many conversations about the current state of affairs; to that end, For Their Love’s lyrics “question, observe, lament and hopefully find the slightest hope in the individual and in ourselves. Characters sometimes venture into spiritual, religious or institutionalised endeavours – though I’ve personally found that self-worth is more important than any teachings or preaching.”

‘Sound Of Violence’, the opening track, is one of the album’s most vivid laments, recalling the awestruck Wild West aura of Tamer Animals highlight ‘For 12’ but with a more sobering lyric: “There is no room for an individual outcry in order to exist in the current way of life,” Tabish says. The exquisitely desolate ‘Dead Language’ makes Tabish’s resignation even more palpable. “I feel like I’m an outsider these days,” he admits. “Though that’s not always bad, because you can observe and judge by your own morals.”

But by the band’s own morals, the current world feels bereft. ‘Hey Hey I’ is the sound of Other Lives at their most upbeat and liberated but the lyric addresses, “the paradigm of the downtrodden working class. The American Dream is dead. You bought into the system but it does not pan out.” The emotion driving ‘Who’s Gonna Love Us’ is one of seeking community and security in this increasingly unstable world. ‘Lost Day’ is similarly unmoored, written on tour, “when we were on the road forever, and we didn’t feel human anymore.” As Tabish developed the lyric, more feelings of dislocation merged: “My fear that the intellectual is dying out, and religion is rising.”

Yet the album’s darkest hour is the penultimate track. ‘We Wait’ is inspired by a real incident, when 17-year old Jesse was a founding member of emo rockers All-American Rejects, and his best friend was murdered by someone within the band’s inner circle. “It’s been haunting me for the last decade,” Tabish admits. “It’s part of my larger narrative of dealing with troubling stuff in my life.”

With Tabish and Other Lives as a whole re-centring their lives and music, For Their Love suitably ends on a note of hope. A serene ballad, ‘Sideways’ is an acknowledgement that the world is dark but light exists. “It was the first song we wrote at this house, for Kim, when she was abroad,” says Tabish. “It’s good to leave on something more positive, less cynical.”

Out of personal and creative uncertainty and recalibration, Other Lives have re-emerged, a must-have pastoral sensation reborn.

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KING GIZZARD & THE LIZARD WIZARD ANNOUNCE CHUNKY SHRAPNEL CONCERT FILM AND ACCOMPANYING DOUBLE LP LIVE ALBUM

April 3, 2020 by Cadence Recordings

Chunky Shrapnel, Double LP, Feature-Length Motion Picture, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, Live Album, Musical Road Movie

ALBUM AVAILABLE DIGITALLY ON APRIL 24

AND PHYSICALLY ON MAY 29 AT U.S. RECORD SHOPS & RETAILERS

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FILMED AND RECORDED DURING 2019 EUROPEAN TOUR

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(Toronto, ON – April 3, 2020) – King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard are excited to announce Chunky Shrapnel, a feature-length motion picture that follows King Gizzard’s adrenaline-inducing onstage performances from the perspective of the band. The film is accompanied by a double LP featuring the music from the film, which was recorded throughout the band’s 2019 European tour. The film will premiere on Friday, April 17 via an online live-stream — watch the trailer and purchase tickets to the premiere HERE. The film’s accompanying double LP will be available for pre-order next Friday, April 10, before its digital release on April 24.

“John Stewart (director of Chunky Shrapnel) followed us around for a few weeks through Europe,” says the band’s Stu Mackenzie. “It was fun and funny and wild and weird. Sometimes an inconspicuous fly on the wall, sometimes an intrusive camera man one inch from my face. Always exciting though. Chunky Shrapnel was made for the cinema but as both concerts and films are currently outlawed, it feels poetic to release a concert-film digitally right now.”

The band has also rescheduled its 2020 North American tour, including their three-hour, career-spanning marathon sets at The Greek Theatre in Berkeley, CA and Red Rocks in Morrison, CO. The new dates begin on October 3 in Berkeley, CA, before taking them across the continent and concluding on October 30 in St. Paul, MN. All headline dates feature support from Leah Senior. See below for the full North American tour itinerary. Tickets are on sale now.

King Gizzard will also engage with fans during a Reddit AMA before the film’s premiere on April 17, beginning at 12pm PST. Stay tuned for more details.

A musical road movie dipped in turpentine, Chunky Shrapnel is a point of view / on stage experience from the perspective of King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard. Once a song begins, just like the band, you’re stuck in the adrenaline-fueled quicksand that there is no escape from. The film’s contention is clear from the outset, it’s going to be a “journey” not a “lecture”, an incurved experience rather than a linear one.

The band, nor the film-makers, were interested in making a self congratulatory “behind the scenes expose” film. It was a direct decision to keep the inner workings of the band’s personality at arms length, it is the music they were interested in exploring. The approach was taken that the film’s protagonist should be the “on stage” performances, that was the focus. With this, they abandoned multiple cameras and cross cutting during performances, turning the camera into a vehicle for the audience to experience the show through, rather than placing them in a crowd or side of stage. At 96 minutes, Chunky Shrapnel more than earns its length. At times gently holding your hand and at other times smashing a bottle over your head and dumping your body in a heaving crowd. There is an inevitability to the film, a driving, ever accelerating spiral that climaxes in a 15 minute medley that spans four countries.

Chunky Shrapnel is directed by John Angus Stewart and scored by Stu Mackenzie.

Chunky Shrapnel album track list:

1. Evil Star

2. The River (Live in Luxembourg ’19)

3. Wah Wah (Live in Madrid ’19)

4. Road Train (Live in Manchester ’19)

5. Murder Of The Universe (Live in Utrecht ’19)

6. Quarantine

7. Planet B (Live in London ’19)

8. Parking (Live in Brussels ’19)

9. Venusian 2 (Live in Milan ’19)

10. Hell (Live in Milan ’19)

11. Let Me Mend The Past (Live in Madrid ’19)

12. Anamnesis

13. Inner Cell (Live in Utrecht ’19)

14. Loyalty (Live in Utrecht ’19)

15. Horology (Live in Utrecht ’19)

16. A Brief History Of Planet Earth (Live in London, Berlin, Utrecht and Barcelona ’19)

KING GIZZARD AND THE LIZARD WIZARD LIVE 2020

10/3 – Greek Theatre – Berkeley, CA &

10/5 – Moore Theatre – Seattle, WA

10/7 – Roseland Theater – Portland, OR

10/9 – Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival – Indio, CA

10/12 – Red Rocks Amphitheatre – Morrison, CO &

10/13 – Red Rocks Amphitheatre – Morrison, CO &

10/16 – Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival – Indio, CA

10/18 – Shaky Knees Festival – Atlanta, GA

10/19 – The Anthem – Washington, DC

10/22 – Franklin Music Hall – Philadelphia, PA

10/23 – Kings Theatre – Brooklyn, NY

10/25 – L’Olympia – Montreal, QC

10/27 – Queen Elizabeth Theatre – Toronto, ON

10/28 – Masonic Temple – Detroit, MI

10/29 – Radius – Chicago, IL

10/30 – The Palace Theatre – St. Paul, MN

& – Marathon Set shows

All headline dates w/ Leah Senior

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