1,2,3 Shares New Track w/ Consequence of Sound,

Sophomore Album Big Weather Coming Out May 27th

Download: “When The Levee Broke At The County Fair” below

“It’s the kind of hectic pop-rock track that would feel at home on The Beatles’ White Album. Or

maybe in the soundtrack to a Twister sequel.” – Consequence of Sound

“…a terrific new band whose 70s-tinged rock, sung with rasping intensity by white soul wonder Nic Snyder,

reminds you of some of the best stuff from the pre-punk era…” – The Guardian

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Stream / Share When The Levee Broke At The County Fair

Pittsburgh’s 1,2,3 has shared “When The Levee Broke At The County Fair” (soundcloud) with Consequence of Sound, yet another dynamic new track from their upcoming double album Big Weather. Opening with a colorful barrage of calliope carousel chimes, rickety roller coaster clacks and a wash of screams (all field recorded by the band), the song harkens back to the weather/disaster themes prevalent throughout the album. After the ominous intro, the track breaks into a carefree, stomping beat, telling the disastrous story with 1,2,3’s signature sense of dry wit and humor…. complete with a few Van Morrison style sha-la-la’s thrown in to drive home that summer nightmare feel.

Combining classic rock with the best elements of lo-fi soul, punk, garage and even classical music sampling, this is the first new music 1,2,3 has released since their critically-acclaimed debut album New Heaven (2011). 1,2,3 had a turbulent few years since the release of New Heaven. Lead singer/guitarist/songwriter Nicolas Snyder quit the band at the end of 2012, burnt out after touring on the heels of their debut and writing/recording the follow-up for over a year. Several months later, after a few nights of drunken persuasion, he re-convened with the rest of the band and coaxed them back, wanting to finish what they had started. Snyder had been inspired by 70’s dystopian movies, combined with a pattern of strange weather and its resulting destruction (a tornado ripped through his aunt’s house in Pennsylvania… something that shouldn’t happen in PA), along with the tsunami that devastated Japan two weeks later.

The band began recording storms through a screen door in the house they were renting on the outskirts of Pittsburgh, which often flooded, halting production. While recording, the band listened to nothing but local oldies radio stations. Big Weather was recorded entirely on primitive gear, using nothing but creaky old guitars, a bass, and things to bang on. Eventually some classical vinyl sampling was brought in to conjure certain feelings, and add new textures to the short stories and spoken word interludes. The lyrics had all the usual lovelorn, loneliness and death-questioning the band had previously written about, but this time it was more vivid, usually recorded during or after storms.

Free Singles from 1,2,3: “Big Weather Part 1” + “Leave Me In The Sky With The Lawnchair” + “Porch Swing Song”

Big Weather Tracklisting:

1. Big Weather Pt. 1
2. Leave Me In The Sky With The Lawnchair
3. Pontoon Song
4. Waiting For The Horsemen
5. Mile High Grass
6. Bus To Babylon
7. Refusal Bop
8. Shapes of Wrath
9. Fear_Pure Elevation
10. Rebuilding
11. Stone Haus
12. Porch Swing Song
13. Big Black Car
14. Big Weather Pt. 2
15. In The House of The Locust
16. When The Levee Broke at The County Fair
17. Strawberry
18. Faith Hill
19. Where We Lived
20. Sick of the End

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