New York, NY (Top40 Charts) New Jersey trio Cold Weather Company premiered a new single "
Brothers"today via GLIDE Magazine - share via Soundcloud - prior to its release this Friday, October 26, to announce their third album, Find Light, will arrive January 25, 2019. The band will perform next, November 16 in New York, atRockwood, 8pm.
Discussing his inspiration for the single, guitarist/vocalist Jeff Petescia stated: "
Brothers" came to me last winter when I was not having the best day. I stopped at a coffee shop called You Need Coffee, right on the side of a dismal looking stretch of highway called Route 22, looking especially dismal in winter. While waiting for the coffee, the barista started to strike up a conversation, which briefly put me in a good mood. But, in that exact moment of feeling a little bit better, he cuts himself off mid-sentence and points outside as two birds were in the middle of the road about to get hit by a car. Sure enough, we watch as a car hits and kills one, while the other gets away. So, the song is mostly about that strange and sort of ironic event, how in an instant you can start feeling a bit better, but also in that exact instant, something really awful can happen somewhere else that makes you shrug and go, "man, life is weird." The 'brothers' aspect refers to the employees because I thought the barista I was speaking to and this other worker I normally see were brothers since they look alike, but it could also refer to the two birds. There's other elements to the song too about wasting your days, finding yourself feeling negative, etc., but overall, it's sort of just a journal entry of a weird day that has a positive message that encourages you to keep going.
Petescia with guitarist/vocalist Brian Curry and pianist/vocalist Steve Shimchick met at Rutgers University, self-releasing two full-length albums and building an ever expanding fanbase through performances along the eastern seaboard. With Find Light, "We wanted to open up and find our unique sound. And now we're going to places in songs we never thought we could go," says Shimchick. Recording with producer Pat Noon (River City Extension, The Front Bottoms, Brick + Mortar) and Grammy-winning engineer Alan Douches (Sufjan Stevens, Beirut, Grizzly Bear), the group expands mightily on their core of two guitars and a piano, joined by a number of friends and contemporaries on percussion, bass, cello, violin, trumpet, flute, sax and clarinet, creating a soundtrack that moves far beyond the band's lean sounds of 2015's Somewhere New and 2016's A Folded Letter.
With three songwriters contributing material, Find Light is impressively hard to classify. Each member of the band coming from their own perspective, training and influences Yet there is perhaps an unexpected cohesion to the songs, and a central theme about rising above, reclaiming your life, working through conflict and seeing the bigger picture - finding light in the darkness. Exemplified in "
Brothers", along with three singles previously released in the past year... "Clover", which already has over 150k plays on Spotify, "Old but True" and "Reclamation".
