"All that..."
Make no mistake about it, 'All That' by Canada based Dearly Beloved's upcoming album 'Walker Park', due out January 28 (via Sonic Unyon) is a gnarly sounding track. From the fertile brain of vocalist / bassist / multi-instrumentalist Rob Higgins, it is one of those heavy, punching wildly head bangers that might grace a movie like Purge or the latest Hellraiser iteration. In the midst of the heavy metal meets apocalyptic rock sound there are other surprising sonic moments like at 2.24 (after a wonderful splash out and build up) with a runaway sort of punk passage that seriously made me flash on The Pretenders. In fact, Higgins' bass work on this track is standout.
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Walker Park took shape while Higgins was writing and recording at home alone to cope with the pandemic. "I felt fortunate to have my studio, and used the time to teach myself mix engineering, allowing me to mix this album myself for the first time.” he notes. “Along with learning how to play the drums a little bit better, with the goal of reaching 'shitty drummer' status. So the songs on ‘Warker Park’ mostly started with simple beats and me overplaying on the bass — an element that at no point in the process got dialed back.”
Good for us.
-Robb Donker Curtius
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Times Square Discount is, as vocalist/bass god Rob Higgins puts it, “a rabbithole record,” and one partially borne of “bingeing on Kubrick and drugs” and ruminating upon such fancies as “How do we make Kubrick an album?” and “How do you make an album version of The Shining?”
The result is an LP that has yielded some of the most pop-savvy material yet to appear in the Dearly Beloved canon. “Vacation” and “LSD” have an undeniably slinky, stick-in-your-head seductiveness about them, “Close Encounters” and “Dog Food Thumbs” a decidedly sing-song quality lurking amidst the battery. Meanwhile, opener “Race to the Bottom” – inspired by Higgins and Chow’s shared experiences working in their 1st-generation immigrant grandparents’ small businesses as teenagers and the realization that such a
from-the-ground-up fresh start is all but denied to any newcomer landing in modern-day Toronto – is an anthemic salute to “the mom-and-pop shops and the grandparents, parents, kids, aunts, uncles and family friends that ran and run them.”
Some of Dearly Beloved’s newly honed pop smarts might be traceable to Higgins’s recent gig as a songwriter-for-hire in LA, which has drawn such friends and collaborators as Dimitri Coats of Burning Brides and OFF!, James Di Salvio of Bran Van 3000, M83 conscript Jordan Lawlor and keyboardist Tyler Beans into the DB fold alongside drummer Aaron Morrice. Guest musicians aside, this record is still very much borne of Higgins's writing, and nothing will change in the feet-on-ground, rubber-to-the-road sense of Dearly Beloved’s existence anytime soon. The band will continue to tour at a masochistic pace, vows Higgins, “because we have to, in some kind of fucked-up way.”
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https://open.spotify.com/artist/04FDd0mSRBhtXtUBltPdCB
https://www.dearlybelovedmusic.com/
https://www.facebook.com/TheBeloveds/
https://www.instagram.com/thebeloveds/?hl=en
Times Square Discount is, as vocalist/bass god Rob Higgins puts it, “a rabbithole record,” and one partially borne of “bingeing on Kubrick and drugs” and ruminating upon such fancies as “How do we make Kubrick an album?” and “How do you make an album version of The Shining?”
The result is an LP that has yielded some of the most pop-savvy material yet to appear in the Dearly Beloved canon. “Vacation” and “LSD” have an undeniably slinky, stick-in-your-head seductiveness about them, “Close Encounters” and “Dog Food Thumbs” a decidedly sing-song quality lurking amidst the battery. Meanwhile, opener “Race to the Bottom” – inspired by Higgins and Chow’s shared experiences working in their 1st-generation immigrant grandparents’ small businesses as teenagers and the realization that such a
from-the-ground-up fresh start is all but denied to any newcomer landing in modern-day Toronto – is an anthemic salute to “the mom-and-pop shops and the grandparents, parents, kids, aunts, uncles and family friends that ran and run them.”
Some of Dearly Beloved’s newly honed pop smarts might be traceable to Higgins’s recent gig as a songwriter-for-hire in LA, which has drawn such friends and collaborators as Dimitri Coats of Burning Brides and OFF!, James Di Salvio of Bran Van 3000, M83 conscript Jordan Lawlor and keyboardist Tyler Beans into the DB fold alongside drummer Aaron Morrice. Guest musicians aside, this record is still very much borne of Higgins's writing, and nothing will change in the feet-on-ground, rubber-to-the-road sense of Dearly Beloved’s existence anytime soon. The band will continue to tour at a masochistic pace, vows Higgins, “because we have to, in some kind of fucked-up way.”
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