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| Single Mothers at Baby's All Right in 2014. |
Holiday Friday
It's a long weekend. The cooldaughters have a half-day at school today. CoolAunt is bringing her kiddos down from Buffalo. I'm going to see the Yankees tomorrow. It's our wedding anniversary on Sunday. The weather sucks! Yeah! Memorial Day Weekend 2017!
Here's a bunch of stuff that came across my virtual desk this week, from some of my current favorites.
Cayetana, "Bus Ticket"
Earlier this month, Cayetana released the follow-up to their much-loved debut album Nervous Like Me. New Kind of Normal finds the Philly trio coping with the idea of pursuing their dream as a band, while people around them "grow up" and start doing adult-type things like getting engaged.
Single "Bus Ticket" is ultimately inspiring. Singer / guitarist Augusta Koch sings of hitting rock bottom before finding that she has the strength and toughness to turn things around.
Director Adam Peditto uses the metaphor of having the band play through a rainstorm that ultimately gives way to the sun, and the clip looks beautiful.
New Kind of Normal is out now on Cayetana's own Plum Records.
White Reaper, "The World's Best American Band"
Louisville's White Reaper just released the Simon Young-animated video for the hyperbolically-named title track from their latest album, The World's Best American Band. The song opens with the sound of a cheering crowd; and the band lay all of their stadium-sized, classic rock influences out there.
Having seen the band play to about 12 people at Asbury Lanes and, maybe, 212 people at Barracuda in Austin, TX, I can attest to the fact that they do play every show as if they're in front of a stadium full of adoring fans.
The World's Best American Band is out now on Polyvinyl.
Single Mothers, "Leash"
London, Ontario's Single Mothers didn't even have any songs when they decided to start recording their sophomore LP, Our Pleasure. Songwriter / vocalist Drew Thomson and drummer Brandon Jagersky booked studio time on a whim, assembled a band, wrote and recorded a new record which comes out on June 16th via Dine Alone Records.
The latest single from Our Pleasure is "Leash." It's more melodic -- with a sing-along-able chorus -- than lots of Single Mothers' other stuff, but it retains the edge that permeates many of Thomson's musings. He sings of being tethered to events from the past, being the subject of someone's grudge, maybe. "That was just so long ago, man. I thought that you could let it go, man."
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