“It mirrors the lack of control I feel in my life. There is a sensation of floating while everything melts around us.” Watch “Distant Lawns” now!
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Loose Wing (L-R): Claire
Tucker, Jack Peters, Bill Patton, Aimee Zoe. Photo
credit: Joshua Simons
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Loose Wing | “Distant
Lawns”
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“[Loose Wing’s]
shimmering jangle-pop [is] reminiscent of early R.E.M. and The Church. Like
hearing new wave morph into college rock in real time,” says
Treble in its premiere
coverage of the “Distant Lawns”
music video by Loose Wing. Read more
here.
“When I wrote this song, I had an image of a quiet
suburban house, with sliding glass doors leading into a well-maintained
backyard. Just being in that backyard on a summer night, and hearing a party
going on down the street, or maybe people arguing, kids playing, and feeling
safe but totally separate from all these people who are physically so close.
“For the video, (Director)
Marcy (Stone-Francois) presented us a ‘psychedelic wonderland’ concept, and
it was a perfect fit with these themes. The video mirrors the lack of control I
feel in my adult life, despite the knowledge that my own choices have led me to
my current circumstances. There is a sensation of floating, in a holding
pattern, while everything melts around us. But it’s also an upbeat pop song!” —
Claire Tucker, Loose Wing
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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
“Spunky, danceable, and grooving.” — Glide
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Loose Wing
Miracle Baby
(Drums & Wires Recordings)
Out Now
Streaming Link:
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 (VIDEO)
09. Saucer Eyes
10. Elements
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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 Miracle Baby (Out Now, 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 is out now via Drums & Wires Recordings.
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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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“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”
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Loose Wing | Links
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Josh Bloom at Fanatic Promotion | Contact
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