New music video from “Wild Places” LP is “Last Resort,”
cleverly illustrating its narrator’s chaotic mind using machine translation
software. Watch here!
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Vincent
Sinex of The Late Innings as photographed by Dan Battista.
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The Late
Innings | In The Press
“Sinex
comes up with a whole slew of songs that should be hits. An incredible knack
for coming up with cool melodies.” — Babysue
“Glistening synths waves, grounded by sonorous
trumpets. Irresistibly catchy.” — Glamglare
“Beulah, if
they were really into early Elvis
Costello records.” — Austin Town
Hall
“A sound as elusive as it is compelling. It’s a
welcome blast of new wave nostalgia, DIY college rock unconformity and
synth-pop elation.” — The Southern
Sounding
“Packed with entertaining lyrics.” — Imperfect Fifth
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PLAY, POST
& SHARE
“Last Resort” (Music Video) & “Our Secret” (Music Video) & “Tonight” (Single) by The
Late Innings
Visit Austin
Town Hall or the link below to see the “Last Resort” music video by The
Late Innings. Vincent Sinex
explains, “I ran the lyrics through machine translation software, from English
to other languages and back to English again. I wanted the constant churn of
languages on the screen to reflect the racing thoughts in the mind of the
narrator. In addition, the images of archaic technology (like telephone
switchboards and computer tape drives) are intended to be a reflection of the
fact that the rock star in the center of the story sees himself as a relic.
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“I think of this track less like a ‘song of the
summer’ and more like a ‘song of the bummer,” jokes Vincent Sinex about “Our Secret.” “The
song is about a guy who returns to his favorite vacation spot, only to find
that it is now overrun by tourists.” See the video now at Imperfect
Fifth or the link below. Sinex
made the clip using screen captures from United States Geological Survey
topographical maps that illustrate not only the lyrics of the song, but also
the types of places (beaches, coves and bays) the traveler encounters in the tune.
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“Connecting the glistening AM radio pop of the late
‘70s to the shivering synth atmospheres of new wave,” says The
Southern Sounding about “Tonight,” which Vincent Sinex explains is about “being
willing to exposing your secrets. In the song, a reclusive film director, lured
out of seclusion to receive a lifetime achievement award in front of a room
full of Hollywood luminaries (and a giant television audience at home) throws
away his prepared speech, and instead pours out his heart to tell a story about
a lost love.”
[STREAM | MP3]: https://fanatic.lnk.to/TheLateInnings-Tonight
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The Late Innings
Wild
Places
Out Now
(The Late Innings Company)
Streaming Link:
Track Listing:
01. Last Resort (STREAM | MP3 | VIDEO)
02. Our Secret (STREAM | MP3 | VIDEO)
03. The Name Above The Door
04. Tonight (STREAM | MP3)
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
is out now, featuring the singles “Our Secret,” “Last Resort,”
and “Tonight.” 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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