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New Music Reviews (2/22) KEXP
Each week, KEXP’s Music Director Don Yates (joined this week by DJ Alex) shares brief insights on new and upcoming releases. See what s coming up this week below, including reviews for new releases from
The Hold Steady,
This Brooklyn-via-Minneapolis band’s excellent eighth studio album is their strongest since 2008’s
Stay Positive, featuring an expansive, dynamic and revitalized sound on richly detailed songs with soaring guitars, bright keyboards, punchy horns and more accompanying some of Craig Finn’s more captivating narratives of characters surviving on society’s margins, with the album’s main themes revolving around power, wealth and mental health. DY
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Portland indie duo, Corvair has released a new video for “Green (Mean Time).” The track, is from their self-titled, debut LP, drops February 19th via Paper Walls in the US and WIAIWYA in the UK. The clip was directed, shot and edited Corvair member Brian Naubert. Filmed in the Wallowa Mountains of Oregon over New Year’s weekend 2021.
About the song Corvair’s Heather Larimer says, “The song was written deep in the eerie spring of 2020 when COVID was first hitting hard.” She adds, “Things were sprouting to life but the world was shutting down. The title alludes to that tension, and also to Greenwich Mean Time, the standard time zone for the globe, as the singer declares that no matter where she runs, she will be setting her clocks to one specific place and person forever.” “Green (Mean Time)” follows a series of track releases from Corvair’s forthcoming release. Singles “Sailor Down” and “Sunday Runner” are available to stream now at Band