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Friday, March 25, 2022
Sixth full-length from “impressively hooky” (American Songwriter), “relentlessly catchy” (Under The Radar) artist The March Divide out June 10.
Jared Putnam’s powerful rock single “I’m Not Perfect”
is “love letter for 1990s rock bands like Gin Blossoms, Counting Crows with a
hint of Cheap Trick.” +++
Jared
Putnam of The March Divide as photographed by
Short Eared Dog Photography. +++ PLAY, POST & SHARE
The March Divide | “I’m Not Perfect”
[STREAM]: https://Fanatic.lnk.to/TheMarchDivide-ImNotPerfect “Fort Worth-based Jared
Putnam has a soft spot for ’90s pop rock,” says Central Track in its
premiere coverage of “I’m Not
Perfect,” the first single from Lost Causes, the sixth album by Putnam’s project The March Divide (June 10th,
Slow Start Records). “The 10-song Lost Causes finds Putnam backed by bassist Ernie Garcia and drummer Jason West. Together with noted
producer Mike Major, they made a
love letter for 1990s rock bands like the Gin
Blossoms, Counting Crows, Tonic and Sister Hazel with a hint of Cheap
Trick.” “I’m Not
Perfect” might be an open nod to the
1990s rock that was on the radio a lot after Kurt Cobain died, but it doesn’t sound like a retread. Compare it
with songs from August and Everything After (Counting Crows) or New Miserable Experience (Gin Blossoms) and it sounds inspired,
but not taking direct lifts from those records.” “This song came out completely different that I had
initially imagined,” Putnam
explains. “Writing mellow sad songs about utter loneliness, for whatever
reason, comes very naturally to me. Over the years, I’ve developed a following
that has a huge appetite for these songs. These songs are very therapeutic for
me to write and it means the world to me that they connect so strongly with so
many people.” “‘I’m Not Perfect’ was going to be one
of those songs,” Putnam continues. “I
tracked a very rough demo version of what I had and sent it off to Mike Major and he heard it as a full on
rock song, which was the opposite of where I had intended to take it. When I
realized I wasn’t seeing the forest for the trees, it just totally clicked from
there.” +++ The March Divide | In The Press
“Impressively hooky.” — American Songwriter “Relentlessly catchy.” — Under The Radar “Bittersweet beauty.” — Impose “Putnam’s vocals pop.” — PopMatters “Hits the mark again and again.” — The Big Takeover +++ The March Divide Lost
Causes (Slow Start Records) June 10th, 2022
Track Listing: 01. I Wanna Hate You 02. Tension in the Air 03. I’m Not Perfect (STREAM) 04. Dover Cir 05. Corduroy 06. Giving Up 07. Virginia (STREAM) 08. Mont Del Dr 09. King of the Lost Cause 10. This World is Gonna End +++ The March
Divide | Live 03/25/2022: Cibolo, TX @ 1908 House of Wine & Ale 03/26/2022: San Antonio, TX @ Fralo’s 03/27/2022: Corpus Christi, TX @ Executive Surf Club 04/01/2022: Plano, TX @ Terra Mediterranean 04/02/2022: Harlingen, TX @ Hop Shop 04/03/2022: San Antonio, TX @ Fralo’s 04/08/2022: Tyler, TX @ ETX Brewing 04/09/2022: Cibolo, TX @ 1908 House of Wine & Ale 04/14/2022: Wichita Falls, TX @ The High Dive 04/15/2022: Plano, TX @ Terra Mediterranean 04/16/2022: Wichita Falls, TX @ Iron Horse Pub (w/ Brannon Oliver) 04/23/2022: Coleman, TX @ Coleman Film Festival 04/27/2022: Clovis, NM @ Bandolero Brewery 04/28/2022: Albuquerque, NM @ Canteen Brewhouse 04/29/2022: Madrid, NM @ Mineshaft Tavern 04/30/2022: Prescott, AZ @ The Raven Cafe 05/01/2022: Salt Lake City, UT @ The Beehive 05/03/2022: Carson City, NV @ Shoe Tree Brewing 05/04/2022: Sparks, NV @ Elbow Room (w/ Blunderbusst) 05/05/2022: Mindon, NV @ Shoe Tree Brewing 05/06/2022: Ashland, OR @ Art Walk (w/Blunderbusst)
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Musiclandria (w/ Blunderbusst) 05/14/2022: Landers, CA @ Giant Rock (w/ Blunderbusst, Ryan Traster) 05/15/2022: Vista, CA @ Aztec Brewery 05/17/2022: Phoenix, AZ @ Rhythm Room 05/20/2022: Bisbee, AZ @ Bisbee Grand Hotel 05/21/2022: Alamogordo, NM @ 575 Brewing Company 05/22/2022: Silver City, NM @ Little Toad Creek 06/02/2022: San Antonio, TX @ Fralo’s 06/03/2022: Cibolo, TX @ 1908 House of Wine & Ale 06/05/2022: San Antonio, TX @ Fralo’s 06/11/2022: San Antonio, TX @ The Point Park 06/17/2022: Fort Stockton, TX @ Zero Stone Park 06/18/2022: Wichita Falls, TX @ O’Briens 06/23/2022: San Antonio, TX @ Fralos 06/24/2022: Fort Stockton, TX @ The Old ‘76 06/25/2022: Clovis, NM @ Red Door Brewing 08/05/2022: Corpus Christi, TX @ Art Walk 08/28/2022: Cloudcroft, NM @ Cloudcroft Brewing +++ PLAY, POST
& SHARE The March
Divide | “Virginia”
[STREAM]: https://fanatic.lnk.to/TheMarchDivide-Virginia “‘Virginia’
is the first song that I wrote and recorded for the album and it set the tone,”
says Jared Putnam of The March Divide about Lost
Causes, his sixth album, out June
10th on Slow Start
Records. “This album is an intentional tribute to 90’s indie-rock. I barely
touched my electric guitar in years, but this album seemed to demand it. It
took me a little while to get reacquainted with my Telecaster, but I loved doing
it.” +++ The March
Divide | About
I wanna hate you. I’m not perfect. Giving up. King of
the lost cause. This world is gonna end. Jared Putnam is a funny guy. No, really, he is. Don’t let the
negative words above, which comprise five of the ten song titles on Lost
Causes (oops, he did it again!), Putnam’s
sixth album as The March Divide,
fool you. Being able to laugh at yourself is one of the tenants
of comedy and Putnam’s greatest
strength has always been to take his everyman, self-effacing character and wrap
it in urgent melodies backed by just-slick-enough production to draw you in and
keep you there. It’s why over the years music critics have called his
songs “impressively hooky” (American
Songwriter) with “classic pop hooks” (The
Big Takeover) where his “pop sensibility comes entirely to the forefront” (Under The Radar). As a next-door neighbor who you would actually like to
know, Putnam doesn’t try to overstay
his welcome, either. Even though he is a prolific songwriter, after the release
of his appropriately titled fifth album cinc in April of 2021, he figured he
was tapped out of ideas for a while. Instead, he started making the best distillation of
his talents to date. As Putnam tells
it, inspiration returned as he was just out doing Dad stuff. “I was driving my kid to school and Gin Blossoms came on the radio. I’m a
forever fan of Gin Blossoms, but
this was ‘Hey Jealousy,’ which
commercial radio has been running into the ground for 30 years. “But in that moment, it was the greatest thing I’d
ever heard! The hooks, the subject matter, and all the rest were as they’d
always been, but I was struck by how it was put together. In that moment,
that’s what made the song great.” Putnam has spent years deconstructing pop songs in an
attempt to discover the formula. This “Hey
Jealousy” epiphany may have been destined, because the blueprint of the
connection Putnam realized while
just doing Daddy duty allowed him to build Lost Causes. “I’ve always been fascinated with dissecting what
makes a song great and trying to find the catalyst for the chemical reaction
that emotionally connects us to where a handful of tunes are run into the
ground for 30 years,” he says of the rarefied air that a timeless hit song
occupies. Joining Putnam
under The March Divide banner for Lost
Causes are friends Ernie Garcia
(long-time player with El Vez and Javier Escovedo) on bass and Jason West on drums. “Our mutual love of Cheap Trick has always made Jason
the perfect drummer for my songs,” Putnam
says. Lost Causes was mixed and mastered by Mike Major (At The Drive-In,
Coheed and Cambria.) “Mike also
produced a lot of great bands around the southwest,” Putnam explains. “It wasn’t lost on me that Gin Blossoms are from Tempe and have a very staple southwestern
sound. Mike knew what I was going
for.” Lyrically, the songs on Lost Causes pick up where
the last single from Putnam’s
previous album left off. At the time, he had started to write in a more stream
of consciousness style, even making a promise to himself not to change his
words. “It’s pretty satisfying to just say what you want to
say, without worrying about how cool it sounds,” he said at the time. This is why Putnam’s
humor shines brighter than ever on Lost Causes. I wanna hate you. I’m not perfect. Giving up. King of
the lost cause. This world is gonna end. We have all felt these things, but putting them in
song, or voicing them at all could seem whiney or at least cynical and
pessimistic. Not so, with Putnam,
who has become a master of this somewhat sarcastic craft. Instead, these songs
are relatable confessions in a candy coating. “Writing sad songs about utter loneliness comes very
naturally to me,” he says. “These kinds of songs are very therapeutic for me to
write.” These sad songs are the ones that most connect with Putnam’s growing audience, especially
those overseas that have propelled tunes such as his 2019 release “Secrets,” to just-shy of a million
Spotify spins. “I’m Not
Perfect,” the first single from Lost
Causes, started out as one of these “downer” tunes, but in sharing his
early demo with his collaborators, Putnam
was pushed to make it more, while keeping what makes it The March Divide. The tune opens Lost Causes and is a
total success. “Even though writing these types of songs is therapeutic
for me, it’s also a rut,” Putnam
says. “Emotionally, I got so much more out of working on ‘I’m Not Perfect’ by working with others. I’m hopeful that the fans
who crave these songs from me will too. Maybe we can all get out of our sad
bastard rut together.” He’s a funny guy. Lost Causes,
the sixth album by The March Divide,
arrives on June 10th via Slow Start Records preceded by the
singles “I’m Not Perfect” (March 18th), “Tension In The Air” (April 8th), “I Wanna Hate You” (April 29th), and “King of The Lost Cause” (May 20th.) Jared Putnam of The March
Divide is available for interviews. Contact Josh
Bloom at Fanatic for
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