After dropping two shut mates inside the span of six months, indie rock band Close to Beer finds a solution to have a good time their mates in a "rock and roll grief track" that helped them discover closure.
A ceaseless beat kickstarts “Lifeless Drummers,” the brand new single from Close to Beer. The track is the third single heralding their self-titled album, out July 15 on Double Helix Data. Because the beat ushers within the track, an electrifying guitar riff from guitarist/vocalist Joey Siarra crashes down from the heavens. Bassist Jeremy Levy joins Brent Stranathan’s beat whereas lending his vocals for a tribute to “the scenes we lived between / the chums we shared, and misplaced, and met once more.” It’s a tribute to the useless drummers, each metaphorical and literal.
“This one was the final tune that we recorded,” Joey tells HollywoodLife. “The document had been completed for over a 12 months and mastered and the whole lot — however with a unique tracklist. Our buddy, Ethan, who produced the document, was transferring into a brand new studio and wanted a band to check out the brand new area, so we had been his guinea pigs. “Lifeless Drummers” was the track we did, considering it’d both be only a demo or perhaps a standalone single. However as soon as we acquired into it, we simply felt like this track belonged on the album.
“So we completely rearranged the tracklist, remastered the whole lot, and now it anchors the primary half of the document. I’m glad it ended up there. It was speculated to be the primary single. However Taylor Hawkins from the Foo Fighters died a few weeks earlier than we had been going to place it out, and it simply didn’t really feel proper to launch it so quickly afterward. Granted, it's a tribute to mates and bandmates we misplaced over the past couple of years, however once more, it simply didn’t really feel proper at that second. So we made a band choice to bump this to our third single out of respect.”
“Typically songs take ceaselessly, and I'll nit-pick and tinker with lyrics and preparations,” Joey says when discussing how exhausting it was to channel these feelings right into a track. “However this one got here collectively fairly quick. Form of. It’s sophisticated.”
“Two completely different dudes who I’d been in bands with through the years died inside like six months,” he continued. “One was a buddy of mine from previous highschool bands, and one was a man who performed in a ton of LA and Fresno bands and was a fixture of our little music scene — Eli. He drummed for this band we did referred to as The Canine Creeps, however we solely performed like three exhibits. Anyhow, there was a Canine Creeps track that has the opening guitar riff of ‘Lifeless Drummers’ and it was Eli’s favourite of our songs. However I by no means had lyrics or a refrain that I liked.”
“After Eli’s memorial service, which was tremendous transferring and a strong, heartfelt tribute to the man, I felt like I lastly had this one in me, so I introduced that previous guitar riff again,” says Joey. “However now I had one thing extra substantive to sing about. And the lyrics got here out quick. Warts and all. It’s a rock and roll grief track and, yeah, a tribute to the parents we’ve misplaced over the previous couple of years. The track was recorded and completed within the studio earlier than we’d ever performed it stay in entrance of individuals, however now that now we have, it does really feel cathartic each time.”
NEAR BEER goals to determine this new band as an indie punk rock powerhouse. The band boasts a pedigree, with members enjoying in teams like Fakers, The Henry Clay Folks, and I Make The Sound. Close to Beer arrives “10 years to the day for the reason that final full-length of my previous band got here out,” Joey tells HollywoodLife. That document was referred to as Twenty-5 for the Remainder of Our Lives and was all about quitting music and attempting to be okay with that call.”
“So, I'm excited that this NEAR BEER document is type of the reply to Twenty-5…,” he provides. “We had even joked about calling it Thirty-5 for the Remainder of Our Lives as a result of it felt very very like a doc of my thirties — and thematically picked up the place the earlier document left off, however with the burden of a very unusual decade in between. I really feel like a unique individual now, however nonetheless a variety of the songs and themes have a pleasant continuity from the previous band to the brand new band. And I’m very comfortable that I nonetheless have music in my life. I get pleasure from it an excessive amount of to simply stroll away. So, I'm very proud that NEAR BEER helped me make peace with the truth that I'm all the time going to have music in my life in some type.”
NEAR BEER arrives on July 15.