DEARLY BELOVED – “EXPLOSIONS (DEVO COVER)”
A SPILL EXCLUSIVE VIDEO PREMIERE
A bioluminescent 10-song set, Walker Park is Dearly Beloved’s follow-up to 2019’s Times Square Discount, released just months before the world closed in on itself. Where Times Square Discount was conceived on the road, by a band that had logged hundreds of thousands of miles of touring around the planet, the songs of Walker Park were spawned in the first year of the pandemic at Phoebe Street, the home studio of frontman Rob Higgins. Writing and recording these songs was a process Higgins describes as deeply cathartic. The band’s self-described “barrage rock” is both a clever bit of wordplay and a pithy collision and fusion of pop and hardcore sensibilities, melody and menace, has offered up unabashed stoner rock coiled like smoke around a magma core of psychedelic post-grunge. Walker Park anchors itself in the lessons learned and launches the band on an exciting new trajectory.
Artist Quote
“‘Explosions’ was the last thing we did together all in the same room at the same time. We recorded it in Toronto at my home studio, Phoebe St, right before we were about to leave for six weeks overseas opening for Sebadoh. The tour was eventually scrapped because of COVID and after recording this cover we all went our separate ways, not knowing it would be two and a half years until our next hang.” ~Rob Higgins
Dearly Beloved
Walker Park
(Sonic Unyon Records)
Release Date: January 24, 2023
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Background Photo Credit: Ian Krykorka
