New York, NY (Top40 Charts) The Chicago-based group COURSE released their new single "None Of Us Are Good Enough." The latest track to release off their upcoming album Tight Feathers (out October 20th), "None Of Us Are Good Enough" stands in defiance of fears and insecurities leveled by the outside world with acceptance and the strength to overcome.
"Kyle (our producer) and I wrote this song over Zoom one day last summer," stated singer/songwriter/guitarist
Jessica Robbins. "He came up with a beat and I came up with the verse and Kyle came up with the chorus. It was one of the most seamless collaborative writing sessions I've had. It was just like 'yep, that's it, we got it.' The song is about the fears and insecurities we each hold inside. We all feel doubt. But it's also acceptance, and having the strength to overcome. We all have fear about not being good enough in a world that continues to raise the bar to levels seemingly unattainable to most.
"None Of Us Are Good Enough" follows the release of COURSE's frenetic lead single "Too Busy For Feelings," along with the Severance-inspired official video, directed by
Maria Belafonte and featuring actor Katy Fullan among other special guests. Atwood Magazine called it "A welcome and wondrous return...a churning, aching, synth-driven fever dream that finds COURSE ready to blast off."
The anticipated follow-up to their critically acclaimed debut, COURSE presents a more ornately developed, atmospheric sound to accompany their characteristically narrative anthems. Produced by Nashville indie-electropop wizard Kyle Andrews, each track on Tight Feathers incorporates carefully layered instrumentation (modular synths, analog drum machines, acoustic and electric guitar, bass), blooming with new textures as each musical line unfolds. The album features contributions from a rotating cast of top-tier musicians, most notably vocalist Jamie Semel, who's ethereal, rich harmonies offer the perfect foil to Robbins' subtle force.
Tight Feathers balances a series of delicately contradictory emotions, both buoyant and foreboding. More elaborate than past COURSE releases, it's laced with sharply written reflections on embracing the chaotic onslaught of life, savoring its complexities, while protecting your inner self. The resulting album demonstrates a particularly relatable kind of existential anxiety—hovering tone-wise between carefree and swamped, happy and overwhelmed, light-as-a-feather and unavoidably ominous. At times, the album drifts into nostalgic territory in the vein of acts like
Best Coast or Tennis, but the songs are never saccharine: There remains a familiar hint of anxiety at the root of each track, grounding the music firmly in the modern confusion of the real world.
Melding an enchanting mix of bedroom-pop, alt-electronic and indie-rock, COURSE made their auspicious debut in 2021 with their full-length album A Late Hour featuring the "optimistic" (Consequence) breakout single "Sixteen." Fronted by Robbins, the dreamy synth-pop collection of intricate, collaborative narratives pulled from both imagination and real life experiences, produced by Dan Dusinsky and featuring fellow
Chicago artist
Kevin Prchal. The album was met with critical acclaim including American Songwriter, Under The Radar, and
Chicago Tribune who called it "a body of work that stands strong" while Atwood Magazine named the band an Artist to Watch in 2021. A Late Hour was also accompanied by a collection of short stories, one for each song on the album, written by Robbins called Nickels Under Your Porch.
Track Listing:
1) None Of Us Are Good Enough
2) Too Busy For Feelings
3) I Called You Late Last Night
4) Back Of The Car
5) Make Up And Roses
6) Somewhere Up Ahead
7) The Leaver
8) Gonna Get Out Of Here
9) Awake In The Darkness
10) Fur Coats In Bars
