“Wild Places” by The Late Innings mixes late 70s /
early 80s energy with themes particular to today’s cultural challenges. Hear “Last Resort”
single.
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Vincent
Sinex of The Late Innings as photographed by Dan Battista.
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“Last Resort” by The Late
Innings | Premiere
Hear “Last
Resort” by The Late Innings now
courtesy of Spill
Magazine or the link below. The song is taken from the Los
Angeles-based artist’s upcoming new album Wild Places, out Sept. 6th.
[STREAM | MP3]: https://fanatic.lnk.to/TheLateInnings-LastResort
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“Last Resort” by The Late
Innings | About
“‘Last Resort’
is about the manager of a rock star who needs to extricate his client from a
precarious situation,” says Vincent Sinex
of The Late Innings about his latest single. Sinex continues, “The long-suffering
manager, who has come to rescue of the rock star time and time again, is once
again put to the test when the police call upon him to deal with the star, a
just-past-his-prime rocker who has holed himself up in the top floor suite of a
building that is set to be demolished. Like he has done many times before, the
manager works his magic to bring his client to his senses (or some semblance
thereof) and get him to safety, aware from the prying eyes of the paparazzi who
have gathered on the street below.”
Sinex says this about the origins of “Last Resort,” explaining, “The song came from the idea of a
once-legendary building that’s about to be demolished to make way for something
new. I started thinking, ‘OK, but where is the drama in that scenario?’ And
then I thought, ‘because there’s someone inside the building who refuses to
leave.’ Once I figured out that person was an aging rock star, the pieces fell
into place and the song essentially wrote itself. The rocker sees an affinity
between himself and the building – both are symbols from another time who are
seen as past their peak.”
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The Late
Innings | In The Press
Venerable music criticism website Babysue raves
about the upcoming Wild Places by The Late
Innings!
“Recording and releasing music under the moniker The Late Innings, Sinex comes up with a whole slew of songs that should be hits. Wild
Places spins like a best of collection. And by many other artists, it
would be. The tracks on this album have an overall light and airy feel. And the
songs are immediately catchy and friendly. This talented fellow uses ideas and
sounds from his favorite bands as a diving board to create his own upbeat
feelgood musical universe. Sinex has
an incredible knack for coming up with cool melodies. The more we spin this one
the more absorbing it becomes.”
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The Late Innings
Wild
Places
Sept. 6th, 2019
(The Late Innings Company)
Track Listing:
01. Last Resort (STREAM | MP3)
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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The Late
Innings | About
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 singles “Our Secret,”
and “Last Resort”. Vincent Sinex of The Late Innings is available for interviews. Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic for more information.
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The Late Innings | Links
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Josh Bloom at Fanatic
Promotion | Contact
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