Produced by Zach Shipps of Electric Six, new album
features one “urgent and harmonious” tune after another. Hear single
“Daily Routine” now.
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Handgrenades
(L-R): Andrew Pawelski, Joel Sanders, Nick Chevillet, Jesse Shepherd-Bates,
Joby Kaslowski. Photo credit: Doug Coombe.
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Handgrenades
was formed by high school friends Andrew
Pawelski and Nick Chevillet in
“Downriver,” the unofficial name of a collection of suburban cities south of
Detroit. Bonding over a shared love of The
Beatles, the pair began performing together in 2008 as The HandGrenades (“The band wasn’t a joke, but the name was,” says Pawelski.)
A variety of additional musicians came and went
(including Andrew’s brother, Tom Pawelski, who was key in developing
the band’s signature vocal style), until the band added drummer, Joby Kaslowski, and released a debut EP
in 2011. A full-length was released in 2012, produced at Ghetto Recorders in Detroit by Jim
Diamond, best-known for his work on the first two albums by The White Stripes, and a second EP
followed in 2014.
Now, a more refined, five-piece version of Handgrenades has arrived, including
Detroit-based guitar stalwart, Jesse
Shepherd-Bates, and another Detroit-area veteran, keyboardist, Joel Sanders. This evolution of the
band is not only noted in the sleeker presentation of the its name, but also in
the sound of Tunnels, the second full-length Handgrenades album, scheduled for release on Nov. 4th, 2016.
Produced by Zach
Shipps (Electric Six), the songs
on Tunnels
could only have emerged from this veritable cauldron of the Detroit music
scene, simmering for a decade, and now boiling over with one catchy tune after
another.
For the recording of Tunnels, with three
singers and three writers now in the band, the members of Handgrenades knew they’d need a strong leader in the studio, not
only to fulfill the potential of the songs, but also to retain the distinctive
elements that the guys had honed over the years. For this, they turned once
again to Shipps, who had produced
the most recent Handgrenades EP.
“It doesn’t sound like a rehash of someone else. Zach made this record sound like us,” Sanders says.
Shepherd-Bates adds, “Zach
brings a lot of insight, and he really improved the structure of our songs. We
adhered to a philosophy when making this record: Every idea, we’re going to see
through, every idea, it will be attempted. These songs are a group effort, and
nobody ever got shot down.”
In addition to the Beatles-esque melodies, three-part vocal harmonies, guitar rock
edges, and Motown flavors that Handgrenades had already established as
part of its music identity, Tunnels shows off modern influences
such as The Flaming Lips, Radiohead, Jeff Buckley, and The
National.
Oh, and David
Lynch.
“A lot of David
Lynch was watched,” Chevillet
says of the inspiration for “Daily
Routine,” the lead single from Tunnels. “I’ve never really liked
anything creepy or dark before Lynch,”
he explains. “This was the first time I’ve been able to avoid direct lyrics
like ‘I love you,’ and ‘You broke my heart.’”
The term “dark” becomes pretty relative when listening
to the upbeat, silvery vocals on the upcoming new album from Handgrenades, anyway. What you’ll hear are five good guys who are,
essentially, the mitten state’s most energetic group of ruffians.
Tunnels arrives on Nov. 4th, 2016, preceded
by the lead single “Daily Routine.”
Members of Handgrenades are available for interviews. Contact Josh Bloom at
Fanatic for more information.
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Handgrenades
Tunnels
Nov, 4th, 2016
Track Listing:
01. Settle For You
03. The Watcher
04. Denial
05. Suffocating
06. A Heart Like Yours
07. Interloper
08. In Absentia
09. Wrapped In Plastic
10. Daydream
11. Green Eyes (Bonus Track)
12. See You Around (Bonus Track)
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Handgrenades Links
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Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic Promotion
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