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💿 The Dirty Clergy - In Waves

The Dirty Clergy - In Waves

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Door de Corona pandemie kwam deze release The Dirty Clergy bijna tussen wal en schip. Nu zijn de promocds eindelijk opgedoken en kunnen jullie wederom weer fijn genieten van een geweldige Alt /Garage/Vintage Rock band. De band bestaat sinds 2009 en dit is hun vierde en eerste album voor Cornelius Chapel Records.

The Dirty Clergy komt uit het dorpje Winfield in Alabama. Hun muziek daarentegen lijkt uit de grote stad te komen. Hun nieuwe plaat In Waves roept sterke herinneringen op aan de Velvet Underground. Veel feedback, gitaartapijten, soms diep weggestopte zang. Maar altijd zijn er ook de liedjes met een hoofdletter L, altijd is er een fraaie melodie te ontdekken. In Waves opent met een van de beste singles van de afgelopen tijd: de instant klassieker Trials. En ook daarna blijft het hoogtepunten regenen. Voor Lou Reed-, Jesus & Mary Chain- en Dinosaur Jr.-fans. Maar vooral voor iedereen die van onvoorspelbare prachtmuziek houdt

 

Tracks:

1. Trials
2. Born To Lose
3. Young Lovers
4. Wonderland
5. Homesick
6. West Coast
7. Lucy
8. Whiplash
9. Parades
10. Dead To Me
11. Dreaming
12. Too Good To Last


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Vacillating between shoegaze-esque ruminations on love and struggle and more straightforward
garage numbers that surge into ecstatic cacophony all accented by eerily laconic vocals,
Alabama's The Dirty Clergy (featuring vocalist/guitarist Brian Manasco, bassist Ky Carter and
drummer Cody Moorehead) are looking to expand their already respectable discography with
their upcoming full-length, the aptly titled
In Waves.
The 12-song collection represents the band's second collaboration with producer Les Nuby
(Verbena, Holiday Gunfire and co-owner of Ol' Elegante Studio in Birmingham), who had
engineered the Clergy's previous album, 2016's
Rattlesnake, a release which would go on to be
nominated for "Indie/Alt Album of the Year' at the 2016 Independent Music Awards, get played
on LA's legendary KROQ station and Alice Cooper's Nights with Alice Cooper, receive multiple
accolades from AL.com and land the band two placements for the songs “Decades” and
“Strange Love” on the tenth season of SHOWTIME's
Shameless.
After having a couple of other singers in the tenure of the band, founder Manasco uses this
latest record to give his own voice to the lyrics and melodies that he has crafted.
"Everything was different because we had a different lineup," Manasco recalls. "I wrote all of the
new songs and when we started rehearsals, the former singer had wanted to rewrite the lyrics.
But we had already recorded all of the music. I was then talking to Anton Newcombe from The
Brian Jonestown Massacre and he said 'tell that dude to hit the road.' And Les was aware of all
this stuff. I had to go back and redo all of the songs in terms of tempo and key to accommodate
a new singer. I was not planning on singing the songs myself, but ultimately I didn't have a
choice."
"That's what the band wanted from the start," Manasco continues. "They wanted me to sing
from the beginning. Everything sputtered a bit at first, but I knew the sound I was trying to
achieve once started singing because it was something I always wanted to do."
These sudden rearrangements helped the Dirty Clergy develop a record that sounds truly
unique. Beginning with the fuzz and percussion-drenched introduction of opening track and first
single "Trials", the Dirty Clergy immediately draw in the listener for an emotional and visceral
journey of an album. One of the standout tracks in the album's first half ("Young Lovers"
featuring guest vocals from Cameron Lane) brings the trio's instrumentation into true focus with
a lengthy section of hard-hitting drums, throbbing bass and an iconic guitar solo which
seamlessly reconvenes with an excellent interplay between the singers. The synth-heavy and
dreamlike "Homesick" focuses on the prevalence of school violence in today's society.
"The shooting at Parkland High School is one that I really focused on for that song," Manasco
said. "I was just trying to put myself in their shoes. We recorded it a few months after it
occurred."
Songs like "Wonderland", "West Coast" and "Whiplash" continue to build on the band's sonic
evolution. Even though the band hails from the small town of Winfield, AL, the tunes do not
really contain any indication of the music that one might expect from the state, instead exuding
a vibe in line with some of the experimental indie rock found in the epicenters of both US coasts.
Despite the title of the record's last track "Too Good to Last", the Dirty Clergy are here to stay
with a collection of tracks that will linger in your mind long after the final note.

The Dirty Clergy will release In Waves on digital platforms and CD on XX-XX-2020 as one of the
newest signings of Birmingham's Cornelius Chapel Records.

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