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[misplacednewyorker]

Party is over, that’s me back.

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Total Slacker is working hard at being great

On a recent Friday—August 19, to be exact—Tucker Rountree’s band Total Slacker released their third album, Parallels. By Saturday, Rountree was in Montauk. He likes escaping the bustle of New York City from time to time, to wander in nature a bit. The weather was nice, and he attended the East Hampton Artists & Writers Charity Softball Game. Paul Simon was rumored to be playing.

Rountree never really thought about the day following an album release as one with any significance; he thinks of it as the closing of one chapter. Rountree thrives on progression. It’s visible on Parallels, where he employs subtle experiments, modulations, and unexpected key changes that don’t necessarily trick your ear but offer a surprise. He’s already onto writing the fourth LP, honing his craft of trying to write a truly great pop song.

“I enjoy the challenge of writing in the pop form,” Rountree told me. “It’s a form that many people have used for 80 years in western pop culture, but it’s still a challenge to see what you can do with it.”

Parallels, while not exactly pop in the strictest sense, aims to bridge the tendencies that have traditionally marked Total Slacker—a Brooklyn trio who describe themselves on Facebook as “slimegaze”—and the accessibility of, say, Katy Perry. “Don’t Want To Be Alone” shares the narrative of a kid begging for a late-night companion over a Police-like chord progression; a fast and shoegazey opening guitar phrase on throw-caution-to-the-wind-and-overcome track “Olympus Hills” features Nick Kelvin from Sunflower Bean on guitar. Glittering synths and a New Wave guitar outro on “Want It That Way” skew more 80s teen movie soundtrack than stoner rock. The production is crisp and clean even when melodies are plodding and guitars fuzzed.

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This story originally appeared on Noisey on September 9, 2016

[solmarie]

Total Slacker - Don’t Ever Fade Away 

[misplacednewyorker]

You’re so cool.

Gold.

[rollingstone]

Watch Total Slacker escape the dungeon at Claustrophobia in Brooklyn.

[musicalhitchhiker]

Total Slacker - Turn On the Lights

Brooklyn çıkışlı garaj/saykodelik rock grubu Total Slacker, 2010 yılından beri aktif olduğu müzik kariyerindeki 3. stüdyo albümü Parallels’ı 19 Ağustosta piyasaya sürecek. Grup lideri Tucker Rountree’ye göre, kendini incelemek ve sevdiğin kişi hakkında daha derin anlamlar aramak sözlerini konu edinen Turn On the Lights kaydı duyuruldu. 

Albümün şarkı listesi:

01. Turn On The Lights 02. Vision 03. Community College Hero 04. Don’t Want To Be Alone 05. Olympus Hills 06. Telephone Your Soul 07. Don’t Ever Fade Away 08. Want It That Way 09. Erased Your Number 10. Lost In Your Eyes 11. Journeys Ahead

[avivbrooklyn]

4/8/16

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