Correct. are again with a brand new album, The Nice American Novel, through Father/Daughter Data and Massive Scary Monsters (U.Okay./Europe).
Vocalist Erik Garlington spoke at size concerning the which means behind — and the significance of — the brand new report in a press launch.
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The Nice American Novel is an idea album about how Black genius, particularly my very own, goes ignored, is relentlessly contested or simply will get utterly snuffed out earlier than it will possibly flourish. This report is an idea album that’s meant to learn like a guide. Each music is a chapter following the protagonist by way of their 20s. Think about a queer, Black Holden Caulfield-type arising within the 2010s.
On the finish of the day, what I needed to do with this report is take Correct. in a path that might shock folks on first hear, however find yourself making full sense on the second or third hear. I feel lots of bands are inclined to go extra pop, however I needed to make one thing each difficult and undeniably catchy.
All of it goes again to Black genius and the way it’s ingested by the predominantly cishet, white male crowd. In the event that they’re going to be a voyeur to the Black expertise, I needed to strip away all of the cheeky music titles, lyrical inside jokes and optimistic singalongs. I would like them to listen to this report and study our id crises, our aimlessness, what number of family and friends we all know which are useless or in jail by 25. How, at 8 we had been informed we had been gifted however by 11 we had been informed we’re harmful.
Bartees Unusual produced the 15-track report, and Brian DiMeglio combined and mastered it.
Hearken to The Nice American Novel beneath.
