Violent Femmes drop new song with Tom Verlaine on youtube
Aug 3, 2019 23:37:54 GMT
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Post by petrolino on Aug 3, 2019 23:37:54 GMT
For anybody interested, here it is ...
"Violent Femmes recruited iconic Television guitarist Tom Verlaine for their surreal new song “Hotel Last Resort.” The five-minute track appears on the folk-punk band’s 10th LP of the same name, out July 26th via PIAS.
Throughout the winding cut, guitarist Gordon Gano unfurls a series of intriguing lyrical vignettes (“I don’t change the chords anymore/The chords change themselves”; “I’ve become invisible because one is not divisible”) over droning acoustic strums and Verlaine’s textural lead lines.
Bassist Brian Ritchie — who first met Verlaine while working as a rock journalist during Television’s final tour in 1978 — initiated the collaboration and heard back with a “yes” within minutes. “We didn’t really give him much instruction, but he did exactly what we hoped he’d do,” Ritchie said in a statement of Verlaine’s part. “He clearly has an affinity for the song. He must’ve really clued in on the lyrics, and he really interpreted them with a guitar.”
Gano added, “One of the greatest thrills of a long recording career is getting Tom Verlaine to play on one of our songs. It’s just amazing to hear that sound.”
The 13-track Hotel Last Resort, which follows 2016’s We Can Do Anything, includes two left-field cover tunes: a version of Greek rock band Pyx Lax’s “I’m Not Gonna Cry” (featuring Gano’s newly translated lyrics) and a stripped-down adaptation of Irving Berlin’s “God Bless America” (fleshed out with an improvised free-jazz coda)."
Throughout the winding cut, guitarist Gordon Gano unfurls a series of intriguing lyrical vignettes (“I don’t change the chords anymore/The chords change themselves”; “I’ve become invisible because one is not divisible”) over droning acoustic strums and Verlaine’s textural lead lines.
Bassist Brian Ritchie — who first met Verlaine while working as a rock journalist during Television’s final tour in 1978 — initiated the collaboration and heard back with a “yes” within minutes. “We didn’t really give him much instruction, but he did exactly what we hoped he’d do,” Ritchie said in a statement of Verlaine’s part. “He clearly has an affinity for the song. He must’ve really clued in on the lyrics, and he really interpreted them with a guitar.”
Gano added, “One of the greatest thrills of a long recording career is getting Tom Verlaine to play on one of our songs. It’s just amazing to hear that sound.”
The 13-track Hotel Last Resort, which follows 2016’s We Can Do Anything, includes two left-field cover tunes: a version of Greek rock band Pyx Lax’s “I’m Not Gonna Cry” (featuring Gano’s newly translated lyrics) and a stripped-down adaptation of Irving Berlin’s “God Bless America” (fleshed out with an improvised free-jazz coda)."
- Ryan Reed, Rolling Stone
'Hotel Last Resort' - Violent Femmes
