"we'll be shaving off our hair / and we'll wear ill-fitting clothes / so no one knows what's underneath..."
In many ways "Blankets" by Arkansas based Adventureland, like it's name is something that wraps around you to keep you safe and warm, to hide away beneath it's embrace until you figure things out. It is a song that is beautiful in it's lush dreamy sounds but also has sparse moments so you can feel the empty spaces, the ambient tones that reveal themselves in between. Nate Drahn, Daniel Grear and Travis Kish give us broad falling sounds, double time bits of glacial drama, tactile guitar notes, splashing big room drums and earnest, reflective vocals tied beautifully together by their storytelling. The story asks as much questions as it pieces together the framework of people longing for and touching each other with all the hugs and gentle bruising that most relationships entail.
Loving the atmosphere here, the original, surprising poetry too. "Blankets": "is about the desperate fear of being too different than the one you love." Mixed by Bennett Littlejohn (Hovvdy, Sinai Vessel, Katy Kirby).
-Robb Donker Curtius
THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM - PRESS NOTES:
https://www.facebook.com/adventurelandmusic/
https://adventureland.bandcamp.com/
https://twitter.com/ad_ventureland
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLbKKvfSjMnNtwDzLyscwdg
https://soundcloud.com/ad_ventureland
https://www.instagram.com/ad.ventureland/
Founded in 2017, Adventureland is Little Rock, Arkansas's premiere maker of good-natured indie rock. Their lush, melody-centered songs capture an essence both bright and moody, oscillating seamlessly between sincerity and irony, hopefulness and pessimism. The band switches instruments between every tune, musical-chairs style, giving each of the three unique songwriters a chance at the lead microphone. The Arkansas Times called them "intellectual pop candy" and "a kinder, gentler Pavement." In March of 2020, they released their debut full-length album, "Hopes of Closure." Their newest single, "Blankets," was mixed by Bennett Littlejohn (Hovvdy, Sinai Vessel, Katy Kirby), and comes out on December 10, 2021.
Adventureland, Indie Folk, Indie Rock, Indie Pop, singer songwriter, acoustic, folk orchestration, lush beauty, sparse earnest reveals, Arkansas based, Nate Drahn, Daniel Grear, Travis Kish, "Blankets",
THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM - PRESS NOTES:
https://www.facebook.com/adventurelandmusic/
https://adventureland.bandcamp.com/
https://twitter.com/ad_ventureland
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLbKKvfSjMnNtwDzLyscwdg
https://soundcloud.com/ad_ventureland
https://www.instagram.com/ad.ventureland/
Founded in 2017, Adventureland is Little Rock, Arkansas's premiere maker of good-natured indie rock. Their lush, melody-centered songs capture an essence both bright and moody, oscillating seamlessly between sincerity and irony, hopefulness and pessimism. The band switches instruments between every tune, musical-chairs style, giving each of the three unique songwriters a chance at the lead microphone. The Arkansas Times called them "intellectual pop candy" and "a kinder, gentler Pavement." In March of 2020, they released their debut full-length album, "Hopes of Closure." Their newest single, "Blankets," was mixed by Bennett Littlejohn (Hovvdy, Sinai Vessel, Katy Kirby), and comes out on December 10, 2021.
Adventureland, Indie Folk, Indie Rock, Indie Pop, singer songwriter, acoustic, folk orchestration, lush beauty, sparse earnest reveals, Arkansas based, Nate Drahn, Daniel Grear, Travis Kish, "Blankets",
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