The Hard Quartet, med blandt andet Stephen Malkmus og Matt Sweeney, debuterer med album
The Hard Quartet – der består af Stephen Malkmus, Emmett Kelly, Matt Sweeney og Jim White - annoncerer i dag deres selvbetitlede debutalbum, som udkommer den 4. oktober på Matador Records / Playground Music. Samtidig udgiver bandet singlen ’Rio’s Song’ med en dertilhørende video, der kan ses her.
Om videoen fortæller The Hard Quartet:
“The “Rio’s Song” video is The Hard Quartet’s homage to street rock in the hot afternoon & clowning around with lifer friends in downtown New York City. Director Jared Sherbert shot it guerrilla style on St Mark’s Place and in The International Bar on July 15, 2024. It features local NYC-artists, musicians, activists, skaters and icons who are dear to the band.”
Bandet er blevet først spottet filme i en opgang til en bygning på Manhattan. The Hard Quartets eksistens blev senere officielt bekræftet den 30. juli med bandets første single ’Earth Hater’, og den tilhørende video instrueret af EYEDRESS. Se videoen her.
GQ har skrevet en kort, introducerende profil af bandet:
"Soon, the whole group is reflecting and laughing and offering a window into the free-wheeling process that informs their proudly leaderless new collaboration: an idea first proposed by Sweeney over the phone to Malkmus during the early days of the pandemic. After collaborating in various permutations and running into each other frequently on the road, the idea of making music together—by nobody’s rules but their own, distinct from any industry trends or standards—felt like a no-brainer. Sweeney looks back in awe at the Hard Quartet's first week of working together, during which they quickly amassed nearly an album’s worth of songs and settled into an identity that felt distinct from any of their previous projects. (“This is not a project—it’s a band,” Malkmus says firmly. Sweeney responds with a triumphant, guttural, “Yeeeah!”)”
The Hard Quartet består af:
Emmett Kelly, sangskriver, guitarist og vokalist, bedst kendt for sit arbejde i The Cairo Gang og The Double, og i selskab med kunstnere som Bonnie ”Prince” Billy, Ty Segall, Rob Mazurek og mange andre.
Stephen Malkmus, sangskriver, guitarist og vokalist, kendt for sit arbejde med Pavement, the Jicks, Silver Jews, Straw Dogs og i eget navn.
Matt Sweeney, sangskriver, guitarist, producer og vokalist, bedst kendt for sit arbejde med Chavez, Superwolf, sin musik til Red Dead Redemption 2, og sit guitararbejde med kunstnere som Fuided by Voices, Cat Power, Johnny Cash og Adele.
Jim White, trommeslager og sangskriver, kendt for sit eget arbejde, samt sit arbejde med Dirty Three, Xylouris White og for sit arbejde med kendte navne som Guy Picciotto, Bill Callahan og Venom P Stinger.
TRACKLIST
1. Chrome Mess
2. Earth Hater
3. Rio's Song
4. Our Hometown Boy
5. Renegade
6. Heel Highway
7. Killed By Death
8. Hey
9. It Suits You
10. Six Deaf Rats
11. Action For Military Boys
12. Jacked Existence
13. North of the Border
14. Thug Dynasty
15. Gripping the Riptide