Monday, July 15, 2019

Is Vincent Sinex a pseudonym? Los Angeles native’s upcoming “Wild Places” album rides late 70s / early 80s time when pop became new wave.

Inspired by landmark 1982 concert film ‘Urgh! A Music War,’ The Late Innings channels energy, intensity of the era. Hear “Our Secret”single now.

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Vincent Sinex of The Late Innings as photographed by Daniel Lennox.

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About | “Our Secret” by The Late Innings



 “Glistening synths waves, grounded by sonorous trumpets. Irresistibly catchy,” says Glamglare in its premiere coverage of “Our Secret,” the lead single from the upcoming new album by The Late Innings. Listen here or at the link below!

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“Our Secret,” the first single from the upcoming new album by The Late Innings, sounds straight out of the era of high-waisted pants, even higher hair, and Day-Glo-decorated keytars, but the message is darker. “Our Secret” is a song about a guy who returns to his favorite vacation spot, only to find that it is now overrun by tourists.

“I think of this track less like a ‘song of the summer’ and more like a ‘song of the bummer,” Vincent Sinex of The Late Innings half-jokes. Sinex recalls, “We went to a beach that seemingly no one knew about, and we had the whole place to ourselves that afternoon. After that trip, I thought, ‘The next time I want to go back there, will it still be a secret, especially since in the age of social media, nothing is a secret anymore?”


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The Late Innings
Wild Places
Sept. 6th, 2019
(The Late Innings Company)
  

Track Listing:

01. Last Resort
02. Our Secret (STREAM | MP3)
03. The Name Above The Door
04. Tonight
05. It’s Not Over
06. Stand By My Side
07. Slip Out Of Your Fingers
08. Long Way From Home
09. You Got Me All Wrong
10. Blue Skies Every Day

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About | The Late Innings

Is Vincent Sinex a pseudonym?

It may be hard to convince you otherwise after listening to Wild Places, Sinex’s upcoming new solo album as The Late Innings, out Sept. 6th. The album’s lead single “Our Secret” is streaming everywhere now. The Los Angeles native’s music sounds like his name. It rides that edge of time when the late 1970s became the early 1980s. When pop became new wave. When AM became FM.

“I have been recording since my early 20’s when I first got a four-track cassette recorder, a couple of guitars and a drum machine,” Sinex says. “I was inspired by the performances in the 1982 concert film ‘Urgh! A Music War,’ which captured the energy, intensity, and diverse sounds of 80’s new wave bands.  When I saw groups like XTC, Magazine, and Echo and The Bunnymen in that film, it made me want to pick up a guitar and try to make that kind of music myself.”

Based on those incredible influences, Sinex went on to teach himself some recording basics, knock out a few cover tunes, write and record some songs of his own, and ultimately form a short-lived band. Then, a ten-year detour into a more institutional type of education followed, earning Sinex a Master’s degree in Computer Science, but keeping him from music, and the march of technology.

“Once I had my degree, I returned to working on music, but technology had changed a lot,” he remembers. “Even though I had new gear, I initially struggled to write any new material.”

The dedicated science student that he is, Sinex decided to take an analytical approach to writer’s block.

“I had to teach myself the craft of song construction, so I got a bunch of songbooks by people I admired, and I started studying how their songs were put together,” he explains. This exercise led Sinex out of his slump and to the writing and recording of his debut album Arrived and Departed, released in 2015.

For Wild Places, Sinex performs everything you’ll hear, including the meticulously layered background vocals. The album explores themes that are particular to today’s cultural challenges, mostly relating to privacy in a society where almost nothing is private anymore.

Well, almost nothing. Because if Vincent Sinex really is a pseudonym, that secret is still safe.

Wild Places, the latest album by The Late Innings arrives on Sept. 6th, preceded by the single “Our Secret,” streaming now. Vincent Sinex of The Late Innings is available for interviews. Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic for more information.

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