BRET KOONTZ & TRUANCY CLUB – “GLOAMING, NIGHTSHADE”
A SPILL EXCLUSIVE VIDEO PREMIERE
Bret Koontz & Truancy Club (ft. members of Fran, Famous Laughs) recently announced a brand new LP, A Sparkle Road Cult, out November 18 via Earth Libraries. The sound at the center of A Sparkle Road Cult is Bret’s voice. It’s an idiosyncratic writer and composer’s voice that has shades of the outsider sounds of Robert Wyatt, Syd Barrett, and Arthur Russell. The accompanying arrangements bring to mind the songcraft of the Carpenters and Prefab Sprout-esque Sophisti-Pop shaken up/down by a touch of the large format boogie of Wings and raw Power Pop of Big Star.
Now, the band shares their forthcoming record’s second single, “Gloaming, Nightshade.β The track is a meditation on grief and loss inspired by a late night encounter with an accidental mood. As, Bret wrote:
βI was walking to a party very late at night after a show in Louisville when I came across a tiny dilapidated graveyard. The sprinklers were miscalibrated so that they were missing the grass and mostly spraying the sculptures, which were already tilted and weathered.
This incidental diorama set the stage for a glassy sophisti-pop exploration of βmono no aware,β the Japanese concept of a bittersweet awareness of the impermanence of things.β
The new track also comes alongside an accompanying music video described via the following synopsis:
“This music video for ‘Gloaming, Nightshade’ explores a day in the life of a metaphysical grief counselor (Ariel Mejia) and her chauffeur (Zach Hebert) as they help clients deal with loss through unorthodox methods.”
Bret Koontz & Truancy Clubβs upcoming album, A Sparkle Road Cult, arrives November 18. βGloaming, Nightshadeβ is available via all DSPS tomorrow.
Bret Koontz & Truancy Club
A Sparkle Road Cult
(Earth Libraries)
Release Date: November 18, 2022
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