New York, NY (Top40 Charts ) Nashville quintet Los Colognes will release their third album The Wave on May 12th via Big Deal Media / Thirty Tigers. Relix just premiered "Molly B Good," the second track released off the album. The band explains that the song "is about the pull between the demands of society, of cultural acceptance, and what is ultimately a higher ideal: presence within oneself and truly 'knowing' those around you." The band has a run of shows in the US, including opening slots for St. Paul and the Broken Bones and an appearance at Sasquatch Festival.
Stream or embed "Molly B Good" via Soundcloud:
https://soundcloud.com/los-colognes/molly-b-good
One of the highest and rarest aspirations in popular music is to reach for the transcendental, to access the spirit. On The Wave, Los Colognes succeeds at this - in breaking through the confines of everyday pop song lyricism to tell a holistic story. It's not a concept piece, but it's a brooding and joyful song cycle filled with philosophical rumination, effortless hooks, inspiring musicianship, and expansive arrangements. It's an album perfectly suited of the current zeitgeist of unease and hope.
Stereogum announced the album in January with a premiere of "Flying Apart." Guitarist/singer Jay Rutherford opines in the song - "Nobody believed / We're all just hoping / Floating down streams." It's a song that invokes "the wave" metaphor of the album's title, while churning through its own sonic sea of shimmering keyboards and guitars anchored by drummer
Aaron Mortenson. The music evokes any of the best moments of late seventies or mid eighties FM radio while never being weighed down by the specter of influence. Los Colognes are a young band who have managed to forge their own sound while channeling the best sonic worlds of the decades past.
Unlike the live approach used to record the group's previous records, The Wave was built from the ground up with attention to each part. There is a certain economy of space in the songs that feels deliberate, while never ceasing to be warm and inclusive. Guitar and keyboard lines drift off each other in between lyrical exchanges while Mortenson propels the beat, sometimes meditative, sometimes driving.
The journey to finish recording The Wave was its own quest for Rutherford and Mortenson, a more deliberate process of creation and craft that shows a band becoming fully aware of its voice and its vision. Los Colognes have given us a singular collection of quietly anthemic tunes held together by philosophical reflection and damn fine rock and roll chops. The Wave is coming.
The Wave is out May 12th, preorder the album HERE.
Read the full bio by
William Tyler HERE.
Tracklisting:
1. Sneakin' Breadcrumbs
2. Flying Apart
3. Unspoken
4.
Molly B Good
5. Forever In Between
6. The White Whale
7. Man Over Bored
8. Hope Not Too Long
9. A-OK
10. Can You Remember?
Tour dates:
3/16 Charleston, SC @ Charleston
Music Hall *
3/17 Charleston, SC @ Charleston
Music Hall *
3/18 Columbia, SC @ St Pat's @ 5 Points *
3/23 Orlando, FL @ Beacham Theater *
3/24 St. Petersburg (Tampa), FL @ Jannus Live *
4/1 New Orleans, LA @ Hogs for the Cause Festival
4/28 Winona, MN @ Midwest
Music Festival
4/29 Yorkville, IL @ Law Office Pub &
Music Hall
5/06 Nashville, TN @ Rock Out East Nashville Festival
5/20 Richmond, VA @ Dominion RiverRock Festival
5/25 Seattle, WA @ Tractor Tavern
5/26 George, WA @ Sasquatch Festival
6/03 Atlantic Beach, NC @ Crystal Coast
Music Festival
7/21 Brevard, NC @ Burning Can Festival
8/24-08/27 Arrington, VA @ Lockn' Festival
*with St Paul & The Broken Bones
"it's the band's ability to seamlessly shift between these referential sounds and
tighten it all into an accessible package of smooth tunes that makes
Los Colognes who they are." - Consquence of Sound
"between booming snare and sustained high notes, Los Colognes pack in hazy guitar solos and tropical keyboards that interlock into a tight groove." - Stereogum
