Autori: Fernando Wolinsk Miklos De Noronha Dale, Laila Wayans, Nicolas Brunstein, Samuel Slocum, Skyler Knapp
Etichetta:
Genere: Alternative
BEEN STELLAR
L'ALBUM D'ESORDIO
SCREAM FROM NEW YORK, NY
IN USCITA IL 14 GIUGNO SU DIRTY HIT
IL NUOVO SINGOLO
"PASSING JUDGMENT"
ASCOLTA | GUARDA IL VIDEO
IN ITALIA PER UN'UNICA DATA:
19 MARZO - MILANO, MEDIOLANUM FORUM
(OPENING ACT DEI THE 1975)
Been Stellar have announced their highly anticipated debut album, Scream From New York, NY, out June 14th via their new label home Dirty Hit. Lead single “Passing Judgment” is a heart-racing post-punk barnstormer, a masterful deployment of unbearable pressure and violent relief that clearly reveals the band’s years of playing together. Later this month the band will embark on a European tour supporting The 1975.
Scream from New York, NY is a remarkably brutal debut – bruised and volatile, it captures an image of ‘20s New York that’s unrelenting and harsh, where tenderness is a finite resource burned up by the machinery of the city and human connection is a luxury product. Leaving behind the driving shoegaze of their early recordings, the NYC-based five-piece tap into the disaffected sound and spirit of New York luminaries like Sonic Youth and Interpol, as well as the nihilistic, yearning cool of Iceage and Bends-era Radiohead, striking upon a sound that’s fearsome, buffeting and beautiful at the same time – a tidal wave as viewed from underneath.
“We were finishing “Passing Judgment” in the midst of our first tour in the UK. Playing through it a bit differently each show, we were learning to look at the song from different angles. The recording feels live because of this process — there’s a chaotic feeling in the drums and bass that wouldn’t be there if we hadn’t finished writing it live,” shares lead vocalist Sam Slocum, “Lyrically I was thinking about why we judge the world around us, and how passing judgment on someone or something is usually rooted in being unsure in oneself.”
WATCH “PASSING JUDGMENT” VIDEO
After a surprise NYC headline last week, the band will depart for Europe later this month, where they’ll support labelmates The 1975 on a run of stadium and arena shows. Tickets available HERE.
Tour Dates and locations removed for privacy reasons.
Tracklist:
01 Start Again
02 Passing Judgment
03 Pumpkin
04 Scream From New York, NY
05 Sweet
06 Can’t Look Away
07 Shimmer
08 Takedown
09 All In One
10 I Have The Answer
As its wry title implies, Scream from New York, NY, is a record about what happens when language fails – between friends, partners, a city and its citizens – and the primal scream you might let out when words just don’t work anymore.
In many ways, the band formed to fill a need: by the time Been Stellar found themselves in New York, the last vestiges of the city’s famed 2000s and 2010s DIY underground had been ground down to nothing. The scenes that did exist felt impenetrable. So the band put on their own shows, renting spaces and collaborating with friends to build the world they wanted to inhabit.
Determined to break new sonic ground, the band embarked on a relentless practice schedule. After befriending him at SXSW, the band tapped producer Dan Carey to help coalesce the disparate elements of their sound that had been percolating: forceful, driving physicality; pop classicism; gnarled beauty; and a rich emotional core. The resulting 10-song album announces Been Stellar as gimlet-eyed chroniclers of contemporary youth, staring through noise and confusion into the dark heart of modern life. These songs embody the spirit of a city that makes and breaks its inhabitants on a daily basis - an irony befitting the album’s tone: Been Stellar’s preternatural ability to capture the disconnection that haunts New York with photorealist detail might just be the thing that vaults them into its pantheon.
Ilaria
L'ALBUM D'ESORDIO
SCREAM FROM NEW YORK, NY
IN USCITA IL 14 GIUGNO SU DIRTY HIT
IL NUOVO SINGOLO
"PASSING JUDGMENT"
ASCOLTA | GUARDA IL VIDEO
IN ITALIA PER UN'UNICA DATA:
19 MARZO - MILANO, MEDIOLANUM FORUM
(OPENING ACT DEI THE 1975)
Been Stellar have announced their highly anticipated debut album, Scream From New York, NY, out June 14th via their new label home Dirty Hit. Lead single “Passing Judgment” is a heart-racing post-punk barnstormer, a masterful deployment of unbearable pressure and violent relief that clearly reveals the band’s years of playing together. Later this month the band will embark on a European tour supporting The 1975.
Scream from New York, NY is a remarkably brutal debut – bruised and volatile, it captures an image of ‘20s New York that’s unrelenting and harsh, where tenderness is a finite resource burned up by the machinery of the city and human connection is a luxury product. Leaving behind the driving shoegaze of their early recordings, the NYC-based five-piece tap into the disaffected sound and spirit of New York luminaries like Sonic Youth and Interpol, as well as the nihilistic, yearning cool of Iceage and Bends-era Radiohead, striking upon a sound that’s fearsome, buffeting and beautiful at the same time – a tidal wave as viewed from underneath.
“We were finishing “Passing Judgment” in the midst of our first tour in the UK. Playing through it a bit differently each show, we were learning to look at the song from different angles. The recording feels live because of this process — there’s a chaotic feeling in the drums and bass that wouldn’t be there if we hadn’t finished writing it live,” shares lead vocalist Sam Slocum, “Lyrically I was thinking about why we judge the world around us, and how passing judgment on someone or something is usually rooted in being unsure in oneself.”
WATCH “PASSING JUDGMENT” VIDEO
After a surprise NYC headline last week, the band will depart for Europe later this month, where they’ll support labelmates The 1975 on a run of stadium and arena shows. Tickets available HERE.
Tour Dates and locations removed for privacy reasons.
Tracklist:
01 Start Again
02 Passing Judgment
03 Pumpkin
04 Scream From New York, NY
05 Sweet
06 Can’t Look Away
07 Shimmer
08 Takedown
09 All In One
10 I Have The Answer
As its wry title implies, Scream from New York, NY, is a record about what happens when language fails – between friends, partners, a city and its citizens – and the primal scream you might let out when words just don’t work anymore.
In many ways, the band formed to fill a need: by the time Been Stellar found themselves in New York, the last vestiges of the city’s famed 2000s and 2010s DIY underground had been ground down to nothing. The scenes that did exist felt impenetrable. So the band put on their own shows, renting spaces and collaborating with friends to build the world they wanted to inhabit.
Determined to break new sonic ground, the band embarked on a relentless practice schedule. After befriending him at SXSW, the band tapped producer Dan Carey to help coalesce the disparate elements of their sound that had been percolating: forceful, driving physicality; pop classicism; gnarled beauty; and a rich emotional core. The resulting 10-song album announces Been Stellar as gimlet-eyed chroniclers of contemporary youth, staring through noise and confusion into the dark heart of modern life. These songs embody the spirit of a city that makes and breaks its inhabitants on a daily basis - an irony befitting the album’s tone: Been Stellar’s preternatural ability to capture the disconnection that haunts New York with photorealist detail might just be the thing that vaults them into its pantheon.
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