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When it comes to some indie music these days, it is getting quite complicated to find artists or bands that have creative substance & originality, as well as ones who are actually any good to begin with.
In this case, I happened to stumble upon Brass Bed on Bandcamp, which also led me to believe there are still some artists/bands out there who are not only good, but are still coming up with fresh or unique ideas.
Brass Bed "The Secret Will Keep You", fulfills this promise.
Coca Cola used to come in sleek green glass bottles back in the day and not these plastic impostors that now line dusty shelves of convenient stores the world over. Like Coke, Brass Bed "is the real thing," straight up quality, and so it's fitting to have the vinyl of their new album don the same color as those bad-ass, collectable curvy beverage containers.
12 inches of vinyl goodness here, folks, with the sounds of Brass Bed's 'The Secret Will Keep You' resting in the grooves! Comes with a download code! You straight up want it!
Thanks for your support!
Includes unlimited streaming of The Secret Will Keep You
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
ships out within 10 days
Purchasable with gift card
$15USD
Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album
Pop this baby in your Discman or throw it in the nearest cd-rom drive, import the songs into iTunes and get your rock on. Player's choice!
Includes unlimited streaming of The Secret Will Keep You
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
ships out within 10 days
Purchasable with gift card
$10USD
Streaming + Download
Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
Purchasable with gift card
$8.99USD
T-Shirt/Apparel
So, you've already got "The Secret Will Keep You" and just need a Brass Bed t-shirt on its own. All good. We've got you covered!
Shirt Information:
American Apparel 100% fine jersey cotton short sleeve tees. The color for both a mens and womens shirt is ash grey sea foam. Both come in your choice of a pink or dark green design.
Mens Sizes: S, M, L, XL
Womens Sizes: S, M, L
ships out within 10 days
Purchasable with gift card
$18USD
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
BOOM! A Brass Bed t-shirt and 'The Secret Will Keep You' on 12" coke bottle green vinyl with download code in one handy bundle!
Shirt Information:
American Apparel 100% fine jersey cotton short sleeve tees. The color for both a mens and womens shirt is ash grey sea foam. Both come in your choice of a pink or dark green design.
Mens Sizes: S, M, L, XL
Womens Sizes: S, M, L
*Vinyl and shirts ship separately.
Includes unlimited streaming of The Secret Will Keep You
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
"'A Bullet for You,' the title track from Brass Bed's new three-song 7", is their best yet: a smoke-wreathed piece of pleading, romantic rock that explodes into a gnashing guitar solo redolent of post-Yankee Hotel Foxtrot Wilco." SPIN
"Although Brass Bed is from the region that’s known for Cajun fiddling, zydeco washboards, and, of course, jazz, the group practices rock-and-roll music with a neo-psychedelic bent." THE NEW YORKER
"Brass Bed’s brand of reverb-drenched, slow-burning guitar rock is a pure thrill to take in." PASTE
Listen through the ethereal haze that Brass Bed has created on The Secret Will Keep You, and you will find a soulful band suspended in a moment of frustration and anxiety. It's the sort of frustration that comes from growing old and realizing that the light at the end of the tunnel may just be the remnants of some dying star. You were a kid once. Maybe you're dad put you on his knee and said "Kiddo, you sure are handsome, smart, and talented. The sky is the limit if you set your mind to it!" Well the truth is, that was kind of bullshit. Chances are, you were only one of those things if any of them at all, and you'll spend your life amid the great unwashed, grasping at whatever straws you can to express a promised individuality that's slowly turning out to be lie. They also didn't tell you that your dream job, your dream girl, your dream you, were really all just that: dreams. The Secret Will Keep You is a cold awakening from that fever dream sound.
After two album cycles playing studio maestros and pop aficionados, the Louisiana quartet found itself confused. On the one hand, it had cultivated an image of playful poppiness, a kind of 21st century mop topped fuzz rock that sought to dilute the dourness of their records lyrics with saccharine pieces of earcandy. Sent through the band's itchy live energy, the songs became faster, trashier, and splendidly erratic, creating a disconnected identity between studio and stage. As they settled down to make their 3rd LP, they were determined to ditch the obtuse lyrics, playground song craft, and squeaky precision and bare their teeth, plaque and all. The result is maddening blend of swirling, biting psychedelia, at one as pensive as a black hole and explosive as a dying star. A universe of guitar feedback and deconstructed keyboard beds pulling the listening apart in the gravity full analog stereo.
The band recorded The Secret in a single 10 day session with Danny Reisch at Public Hi Fi Studios in Austin, Texas, putting everything down live to tape. The compressed schedule and quick change recording methods helped Brass Bed capture the anxiety, humor, and honesty that is the molten core of this record and also the spirit of the band at the time of its creation.
From the wry and acerbic indictment of faith in "Cold Chicory" to the pleading lonesomeness of "I Guess I'll Just Sing" to the outright romantic frustration of "A Bullet For You," the album invites listeners to join the band as they traverse what lies between joy and regret, bliss and distress. These creations are still living, breathing things and that Brass Bed will only inject.
credits
released April 23, 2013
Performed live to tape at Public Hi Fi Studios in Austin, TX by the following four gentlemen:
Produced by Brass Bed and Danny Reisch
Engineered by Danny Reisch
Additional Engineering by Brad Bell
Mastered by Jeff Lipton at Peerless Mastering in Boston, MA
Assistant Mastering Engineer: Maria Rice
Package Design by Peter DeHart + Allison Bohl DeHart of Makemade
Brass Bed would like to thank our friends and families,
Jim Eno, Nathan Walker, Michael Leahy, Greg Edwards,
Jordan Korn, Stevan Alcala, Zach Gonsoulin, Jon Harter,
Lizzy LaPointe, Allison Bohl DeHart, and Kat Gardiner
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