Alone At 3am’s New album Show The Blood Out Today
ALONE AT 3AM’S NEW ALBUM “SHOW THE BLOOD” OUT TODAY! LISTEN TO THE FULL ALBUM STREAM!
ALONE AT 3AM’S NEW STUDIO ALBUM SHOW THE BLOOD OUT TODAY VIA SOFABURN RECORDS!
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Emerging from shambolic basement shows and early roster shake-ups, over 16 years Max Fender and Joey Beck have coiled Midwest stalwarts Alone at 3AM into a tightly-wound muscular force with “a refreshing straightforwardness not found in most music” (Scene).
The band has been at a dead run since 2010’s album Cut Your Gills and 2012 single From an Ohio Basement, reveling in hard-earned rock&roll escapism while revealing substantial songwriting chops. Embedded in these earliest songs, some of which like “Blacktop Cracks” remain live favorites, are unresolved questions. Often the only answer is found in the act of living in the fleeting combustion of a three minute song, that brief musical connection between band members and an audience.
On their 2012 LP Midwest Mess Alone at 3AM explored the balance between volume and personal reflection, which cemented Fender’s reputation as one of Cincinnati’s most prolific and insightful songwriters. The website Bucketful of Nails was waiting for it, claiming, “occasionally an album comes along that has that fire, that smoldering spark your soul requires.” With songs like “Weekends at the Cape” and “Walk Away,” the singer has become more confident in the precisely personal while the band investigates new sonic territory – from the brittle postpunk of “Wolf in the Woods” to the stomping set-closing catharsis of “Burn This Town.” Throughout, Sarah Davis‘ harmonies fuse with and console Fender’s tattered vocals in the band’s most far-reaching release to date. Popmatters deemed the record “raw, honest, literate storytelling, [with] brilliant song structures, [and] a built-in integrity.”
As the most recent and strongest iteration of Alone at 3AM prepares their 2015 release Show the Blood, location again plays a singular role as Fender, reaching for simple moments of grace, ruminates on his home in the Midwest, a place that’s never quite here or there. And though influences can be heard throughout – a buzz through, say, Detroit, southern California or St. Paul – the end result is a testament to the power of a confident and road-tested rock band coming to terms with living in the in-between.
Alone At 3AM’s new studio album Show The Blood is out now on CD and digital formats via Sofaburn Records.
ALONE AT 3AM / MAX FENDER TOUR DATES
September 19 Lexington, KY @ Squallfest
September 26 Cincinnati, OH @ Sofaburn MPMF Showcase @ Herzog studio
October 9 Chicago, IL @ Underground Lounge
October 10 Cincinnati, OH @ The Comet
MAX FENDER SOLO EURO TOUR w/ Jeremy Pinnell
October 14 Eindhoven, NL @ Stage Music Café
October 15 Den Haag, NL @ Haags Pop Centrum
October 16 Amsterdam, NL @ Checkpoint Charlie
October 17 Haarlem, NL @ Café’ de Appel
October 18 Freiburg, Germany @ The White Rabbit
October 20 London, UK @ Aces and Eights
October 21 Witney, UK @ Fat Lil’s
October 22 Sheffield, UK @ ROTA / Audacious Art Experiment
October 23 Newcastle, UK @ Ampersand Inventions
October 24 Aberdeen, UK @ The Blue Lamp
November 20 Louisville, KY @ Haymarket
November 28 Newport, KY @ Southgate House Revival
HERE’S WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING ABOUT ALONE AT 3AM’S SHOW THE BLOOD:
“On Alone At 3AM’s new album, Show The Blood, frontman Max Fender ruminates on his home in the Midwest, a place that’s never quite here or there. And though influences can be heard throughout—a buzz through Detroit, Southern California or St. Paul—the end result is a testament to the power of a confident and road-tested rock band coming to terms with living in the in-between.” – GUITAR WORLD
“… upbeat and catchy” – CINCINNATI ENQUIRER
“Show The Blood finds Alone At 3AM in fine polished form. The group puts a tough Rust Belt attitude into a sound that is equal parts rock and roll, alt. country, and Americana, bringing to mind groups like the Drive-By Truckers and Lucero.” – GLIDE MAGAZIN
“ Active since 1999, this Cincinnati roots-rock band has entered a particularly fertile period in the last half-decade, including a new full-length with an Ohio-River viewpoint for Midwestern songwriting a la Uncle Tupelo.” – MILWAUKEE JOURNAL-SENTINEL
“… a catchy album full of vocal melodies, hooks and little guitar fills.” – GLACIALLY MUSICAL
“… songs that are reminiscent of Tom Petty and the Southern rock band Drive-By Truckers, with others even comparable to the sounds of Bruce Springsteen or The Gaslight Anthem.” – ROOTSTIME
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