La Santa Cecilia Release Grief-grappling Emotional Jewel, "I've Been Thinking"

New York, NY (Top40 Charts) "I've Been Thinking," the emotional centerpiece of Grammy-winning "hometown heroes" (LA Times) La Santa Cecilia's upcoming LP 'La Santa Cecilia' (10/18, Universal/Rebeleon), produced by Sebastian Krys, is out today.

A revolving chorus of mothers, fathers, sons, and daughters sing along to La Marisoul's bluesy, impassioned cry for the comfort of a lost loved one: "Hold me tight, don't let me go - I don't want to be free." The video is the five stages of grief in miniature, an ultimately-hopeful tribute to the band members' fathers, three of whom passed in the last year. It's the third single off the new album - a deeply personal, tragedy-inspired-but-not-tragic "guisado" bicultural stew of Nicaraguan, Mexican, and Venezuelan folk influences melded to the punk, surf, blood, sugar, sex, and magik of LA - and NYC fans can hear it live when the band plays an early record release show at The Gramercy Theatre on October 14th.

Already receiving praise from NPR Music ("La Santa Cecilia is the rare act that earns words like delightful"), KCRW, WNYC, Billboard, Rolling Stone, The LA Times, and more, the new music is the band's most honest and emotionally intimate to date - it's no coincidence that their seventh album is self-titled. And in addition to their NYC record-release show, you can hear the band on the road this fall.

About La Santa Cecilia
Blessed by their namesake La Santa Cecilia (the patron saint of music), accordionist and requinto player Jose "Pepe" Carlos, bassist Alex Bendaña, percussionist Miguel "Oso" Ramirez, and La Marisoul cut their teeth busking on LA's Olvera Street, and have since collaborated with Elvis Costello, Los Lobos, and John Paul Jones, won the GRAMMY for Best Latin Rock Album, and played the likes of the Hollywood Bowl and Walt Disney Concert Hall.