Slumberjack just released the Official Video for their track I'm Alright from their upcoming full length "Big Shoots" due to drop on March (2020) via the Austin Based indie label Glad School. The track which is a full charged head bobbing or head banging (which ever you prefer) rocker with 90's college rock indie leanings is instantly relatable and I do mean instantly. After a guitar hook that super glues on your brain right away, the Andrew Kelly delivering a seemingly stream of consciousness litany of life lessons, tribulations and just stuff about Pensacola, Florida (the town he grew up in and returned to spawning this song) and the very first thing he relates is:
"A big Fuck You to whoever stole my bike, took a source of happiness from my life"
And hell yes, that pulled me in immediately (and yes a big Fuck You - you know who you are). Kelly goes on with more stuff of his life, how he knows that town intimately, his love for the "hairy people" from Pensacola, "splitting pickles at Jerrys", and how he should call his mother (and tell her "I'm alright) and more insights. The sound is muscular, the poetry is a hard real emotional travelogue of sorts and a song that LIVE the audiences will sing along to while head bobbing or head banging (which ever you prefer).
Slumberjack is currently based out of Atlanta, Georgia and are Andrew Kelly (guitar, vox), Dave Hanson (drums, production) and Jordan Rapaport (bass, guitar)
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Robb Donker
THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM - PRESS NOTES:
Slumberjack plays heavy hearted guitar rock with post-hardcore sentiment and indie rock melodicism. This is Slumberjack's first single off the upcoming LP 'Big Shoots' out in March 2020 on Glad School, an Austin based indie label. "I'm Alright" is a song about a hometown. Writer/singer/guitarist Andrew Kelly wrote it after returning to live for a time in the city of his upbringing: Pensacola, Florida. The video was filmed at scenes throughout that city, many which are referenced in the song. It's a song that explores the newfound gratitude found in fresh perspectives for the homes that we are often so eager to flee.
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