Los Angeles-based pop band’s latest single is likely
first ever to reference Pretenders’ Chrissie Hynde by name.
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“Should’ve become a household name a
long time ago.” – USA Today
“L.A. has
not produced a band as capable of both My Bloody Valentine miasma and Nick Drake quietness.” — Andy Gill,
Gang of Four
John Andrew
Fredrick, a prolific songwriter and
author – he has published three comic-literary novels and is about to release a
book on the early films of Wes Anderson
– announced that his long-time,
critically revered band (referred to as “a national treasure” by LA Weekly), the black watch would tick no more following the release of the
band’s Sugarplum Fairy, Sugarplum Fairy album in early 2015.
As it turns out, this retirement has lasted less than
a year.
Set for release on December 4th, Highs & Lows is the band’s 13th
release in 27 years and is one of its best. An early review from the venerable
magazine The Big Takeover calls the
album “high art,” and notes that Fredrick
“plies the refined, crafted spaces of post-Velvets
pop like Go-Betweens/Orange Juice/Smiths/c86.”
Produced by Rob
Campanella of Brian Jonestown
Massacre, the first single from Highs & Lows is “Pershing/Harvard Square,” which Frederick believes to be the first song
to ever mention Pretenders
frontwoman Chrissie Hynde by name.
“I jotted down the whole thing early one morning after
coffee,” he says.” I often think about the sort of person you meet in Los
Angeles who, as the line in the song goes, thinks they’re Chrissie Hynde or something just because they ‘say strange things’
to people, at parties or wherever.”
Highs
& Lows, the latest album from
the black watch, arrives on December 4th, 2015 via Pop Culture Press Records. John Andrew Fredrick is available for interviews. Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic for more information.
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Highs
& Lows
(Pop Culture Press Records)
Dec. 4th, 2015
Track Listing:
01. Beautiful Sleeper (VIDEO)
02. Quondam Redhead
04. There’s No Fucking Way
05. A Sort of An Overture
06. Love’s Fever Dreams
07. She’s A Mess
08. If Upon A Time That Never Happened
09. He Must Needs Go That The Devil Drives
10. Eleanor’s Not Hiding
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Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic Promotion
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