“Unnatural” single drops as band announces trio of east coast dates in support of new album recorded at Bear Creek Studios (Big
Thief’s U.F.O.F.)
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Loose Wing (L-R): Bill
Patton, Claire Tucker, Aimee Zoe, Jack Peters. Photo
credit: Joshua Simons.
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Loose Wing | East Coast
Dates
11/08/2023: Philadelphia, PA @ Ortlieb’s (w/
Sean Danger Smith, Broke Brothers) (8PM, $10)
11/09/2023: Jersey City, NJ @ The Pet Shop
(w/ Commons 2, Desert Sharks) (8PM, Free)
11/10/2023: Queens, NY @ The Windjammer (w/
Girls on Grass, Laughing Stock) (Info)
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Loose Wing | In The Press
“Gritty and defiant.” — Various Small Flames
“Highly accomplished.” — When You Motor Away
“Poignant grace.” — Atwood
“Authenticity that shines.” — The Wild Is Calling
“Soulful melodies and raw emotions.” — Last Day Deaf
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Loose Wing | “Unnatural”
Listen to “Unnatural” by Loose Wing at The Big Takeover or at the link above!
“‘Unnatural’ is about a few things, but mainly about how so many aspects of being alive — even including death — are so weird. Just being human is weird! This song is about reckoning with mortality... a poppy reckoning with mortality.” — Claire Tucker, Loose Wing
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Loose Wing
Miracle Baby
(Drums & Wires Recordings)
Nov. 10, 2023
Track Listing:
01. Capital Alphabet (STREAM)
02. Skirts
03. Bleeding My Arms
04. Unnatural (STREAM)
05. Country Numbers (STREAM)
06. Kneeling Angelica
07. Dragging Days
08. Distant Lawns
09. Saucer Eyes
10. Elements
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Loose Wing | “Capital Alphabet”
[STREAM]: https://fanatic.lnk.to/LooseWing-CapitalAlphabet
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“She sings it with such beauty and gusto, it’s hard not to believe for the duration of a three-minute pop song that anything is possible.” — For The Rabbits
“It’s a gritty and defiant indie pop song that rallies against the soul-sucking drudgery enforced on many by the capitalist overlords.” — Various Small Flames
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Loose Wing | “Country Numbers”
Legendary journalist Greil Marcus stays true to his reputation as a scholar of modern rock’s intersection with rock history when noting in a 2019 Rolling Stone column that “some of the same dirt rubbed off” in regard to how Seattle foursome Loose Wing picked up mess from fellow Emerald City singer Merilee Rush, best-known for her 1968 hit “Angel of the Morning.”
Loose Wing hasn’t cleaned up completely since its critically
praised debut album — “Loose Wing
are serving as an example that the area’s still got it,” says UPROXX. Instead the band, led by
songwriter Claire Tucker, has further
focused its pounding and present sound via the upcoming Miracle Baby (Nov. 10, Drums & Wires Recordings.)
Miracle Baby delivers an even more potent version of Loose Wing’s ability to capture themes of “isolation, intimacy, and
teen angst that has yet to be outgrown” (The
Big Takeover), recalling Neko Case
or Low — Tucker recently organized
a benefit concert to benefit Low’s
surviving member Alan Sparhawk following
the untimely passing of Mimi Parker
— set loose through the lens of Throwing
Muses.
Fans of PJ
Harvey, Kate Bush, and Guided By Voices will also understand.
Much of Miracle Baby was recorded at Bear Creek Studios in Woodinville, WA
where another sonic touchstone — U.F.O.F. by Big Thief — was produced. Being at Bear Creek made an impression on Tucker, and on the record.
“It felt like a great place to immerse ourselves in
the recording process and to find inspiration,” Tucker members. “It was a bit of a rock and roll vacation. The
studio has a little apartment area, where we would work on overdub ideas on the
grand piano, vintage pump organ, and other instruments. Or we would soak in the
hot tub by the creek.”
Things are looking up for the company
They’re gonna buy the moon
Things are looking up for the company
We’ve got a flash sale on single use plastics
These lyrics are taken from “Capital Alphabet,” the lead track and first single taken from Miracle
Baby. “I had a web development job I hated,” Tucker explains. “I was in way over my head and having panic
attacks while driving to work.”
“Capital
Alphabet” is a perfect example of Tucker’s ability to make plain complex feelings
of anxiety about consumerism, and the rest of Miracle Baby repeats that
tension, albeit around more personal reflections on Tucker’s sense of “contemporary humanity.”
While Tucker
claims that Miracle Baby is “sort of a grab-bag,” thematically, the album holds
together quite well, even with its divergent styles that shouldn’t work on one
album, but do.
“We like to keep things interesting,” Tucker (Guitar, Vocals, Keys) says of
her bandmates, Jack Peters (Bass), Aimee Zoe (Drums, Percussion,) and Bill Patton (Guitar, Pedal Steel,
Vocals, Keys.) “I think we influence each other, and maybe that explains why no
two songs on this album sound alike.”
Maybe Greil
Marcus’ “dirt rubbed off” reference subconsciously makes Miracle
Baby what it is.
Miracle Baby, the second album by Seattle foursome Loose Wing arrives Nov. 10
via Drums & Wires Recordings.
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Loose Wing | Links
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Josh Bloom at Fanatic Promotion | Contact
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