Supercrush Share “Parallel Lines” Music Video
Supercrush
Share “Parallel Lines” Music Video
Announce US TourDates with Off With Their Heads, Slingshot Dakota
Debut Album SODO Pop Out Now
via Don Giovanni Records
Seattle, WA’s power pop extraordinaires, Supercrush, are gearing up to hit the road this Fall with a lengthy U.S. tour throughout November and December. The run includes a number of dates with Off With Their Heads and Slingshot Dakota as well as Supercrush headline shows. The band are touring in support of their debut full-length, SODO Pop, out now via Don Giovanni Records.
To mark the announcement, Supercrush have shared a new music video for SODO Pop standout “Parallel Lines” directed by guitarist/vocalist Mark Palm along with Che Hise-Gattone of Regional Justice Center, Shine, and Video Prick. Shot on a borrowed handycam with a memory card full of long forgotten home movies, the video’s grainy, strobed-out visuals are the perfect compliment to Supercrush‘s wall of fuzzed-out sound.
Watch the “Parallel Lines” music video via YouTube:
Listen to SODO Pop via Bandcamp:
https://supercrush.bandcamp.com/album/sodo-pop-2
Listen to SODO Pop via Spotify:
Purchase SODO Pop:
http://www.dongiovanni.co/sodopop
Since 2013 Supercrush have been building an impressive catalog of hyper-catchy rock & roll. Following a run of 7″ singles and a collection LP, the band finally released their debut full-length last year, drawing attention from the likes of Stereogum, BrooklynVegan, Exclaim, Talkhouse, and more. SODO Pop‘s effortless blend of ’90s alternative crunch, shoegaze textures, and timeless guitar pop hooks fulfilled the promise of the band’s early singles while further honing Palm’s undeniable knack for melody. Stay tuned for more Supercrush news in 2022.
SODO Pop is out now
via Don Giovanni Records.
SODO Pop track list:
1. Get It Right
3. I Didn’t Know (We Were Saying Goodbye)
5. Have You Called Him By My Name
7. I Can’t Stop (Loving You)
8. Grace
9. Fair-Weather Fool
10. When I’m Gone
Biography:
For years Supercrush confined themselves to the limitations of the two-song 7” single format, demonstrating a mastery of hyper efficient song-craft, while leaving their audience wondering if a more expansive work would ever emerge. SODO Pop answers that question, delivering on the promise of those 7” singles and then some with 36 minutes of guitar pop alchemy. With a full-length album, the band is for the first time afforded the space to stretch out, allowing for explorations into more ambitious song structures, varied compositions, and additional instrumentation. But those who enjoyed the brevity of the band’s early material needn’t worry, there are still plenty of compact two and a half to three minute gems here in the tradition of the group’s tried and true superpop formula.
Get It Right opens the record in classic Supercrush fashion with bright guitars, upbeat drumming, sunny vocal harmonies, and a gigantic chorus hook. The lyrics read as a sort of mission statement by the band, describing their never ending quest to form simple elements into the perfect pop song. They get damn close right out of the gate. What follows is an embarrassment of musical riches, drawing from all manner of melodic guitar based rock in many of its countless permutations. From fuzzed up pop punk (On The Telephone) to dance-y shoegazing (Parallel Lines), Keith Moon-esque bombast (Be Kind To Me) to melancholy pedal steel country touches (Have You Called Him By My Name?), Beatled-out piano and vocal reflections (Grace) to epic sentimental balladry (Fair-Weather Fool), and concluding finally on acoustic vulnerability (When I’m Gone) – throughout it all, earworms abound. In the album opener, vocalist Mark Palm claims “there’s a perfect melody I haven’t found” but I wouldn’t be so sure about that – memorable melodies are in no short supply on SODO Pop.
Recorded at various studios in Seattle by Supercrush bass player Phil Jones (Shook Ones, Self Defense Family, Ceremony) and long time collaborator Jackson Long (BOAT, Death Cab For Cutie, Wilco), the sessions then travelled cross country to Massachusetts to be mixed by Justin Pizzoferrato (Dinosaur Jr, Sonic Youth, The Pixies) before returning home to be mastered by Ed Brooks (REM, The Posies, Juliana Hatfield). The sonic results demonstrate the type of attention to detail that comes only from countless years of combined experience and devotion to the craft of making great records.
Supercrush online:
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