- 2024-08-22
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MUSIC
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Dawes Releases New Song “Still Strangers Sometimes”
Los Angeles-based rock band Dawes, consisting of Taylor Goldsmith (guitars/vocals) and Griffin Goldsmith (drums), released the second single called “Still Strangers Sometimes” from their upcoming ninth studio album “Oh Brother” on August 21, 2024.
The new album is set to be released on October 11, 2024. It is their first album in two years since the 2022 album “Misadventures of Doomscroller”.
The track was written by Taylor Zachary Goldsmith. The accompanying music video was directed by Robin Gonsalves and Brynn Osborn.
The band leaed singer Taylor Goldsmith said of the song, “A song about the spiritual investigation of long term relationships. How a part of ourselves will be unknowable forever, despite our deep connections and intimate understandings of each other.”- The album “Oh Brother” comprises a 9-track, produced by Dawes.
It is the first release after the departure of bassist Wiley Gelber and keyboardist Lee Pardini.
Taylor Goldsmith said of the album, “All you can really do is find out what are the most essential, truest, and idiosyncratic parts of yourself. And I like the fact that Griffin and I are kind of clinging to each other and holding on to each other more than we ever have. We’re grateful for each other in a new way. But we’ve also been through a lot.”
He continued, “It feels like we’re reborn in a way, and I mean that with so, so much love and gratitude to everyone we’ve ever played with before! This is what it means to be a lifer, to have iterations. It means having phases and chapters, and this is a very clear delineation as to the beginning of a new one. So Oh Brother feels like a ninth record, but it also feels like a first record.” -
The band shared on social media, “Every Dawes record is a reaction to the one before it. Luckily, we’re still proud of each of them, so it’s not like said reaction is some kind of course correction. It’s more like a slow assimilation. We take whatever new flavors that an album has introduced to the catalogue and bring that into whatever new direction we’re heading in. All this hopefully makes our recent work the best encapsulation of the whole journey up to this point. And this has never felt as true as it does with Oh Brother. In some ways it feels like the first step after Misadventures of Doomscroller and in some ways it feels like the lost cousin of North Hills. In some ways it sounds like a 9th record and in some ways it sounds like our 1st...” - source : Apple Music
