Forward of the 30 June launch of their upcoming album, ‘You Are By no means Alone’, by means of Vfib Recordings, Bicentennial Drug Lord mix forces with Alex Farrar (MJ Lenderman) on their new single, ‘Iggy Pop’.
Out of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Bicentennial Drug Lord includes three songwriters and longtime pals, John Daniels, Rick Donner, and Alan Weatherhead. The trio’s sound combines their love for indie rock, Americana, and Echo & The Bunnymen – particularly their Ocean Rain period.
‘Iggy Pop’ isn’t a lot concerning the legendary singer, however quite holding onto the issues that you simply bear in mind by listening to the music of Pop and/or his band, The Stooges. The topic of the music is feeling their age, they’re too previous to get away with carrying a Catholic college skirt anymore, they’ve received youngsters of their very own and so they really feel like they need to be a bit extra accountable. Reduce on the smokes, in the reduction of on the drink, cease the medication, and so forth. However then, you’ve received the music and the recollections, so that you placed on an Iggy Pop report, and, simply each infrequently, get pleasure from taking a while out to relive the way it was once.
The band’s strummed guitars, the sleek drums and percussion, and the vocals – lead and harmonious backing vocals – work collectively to deliver a nostalgic vibe to ‘Iggy Pop’. It doesn’t sound a lot like Iggy himself, however quite Elvis Costello, or The Automobiles. There’s a stretched out outro that echoes lengthy after the instrumentals stop, virtually lengthy sufficient for the musicians to have already packed up and left the studio. However this can be a nice alternative to shut your eyes, and lose your self within the recollections of these days long gone.
Lose your self to ‘Iggy Pop’. You possibly can stream and obtain it right here, and discover out extra about Bicentennial Drug Lord and their music on-line on Bandcamp, Fb, and Instagram.
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