Cherry Announce ‘Strong’ 7", Out Now On Lame-O Records
Cherry Announce New Three-Song 7″ Strong
Out Now on Lame-O Records
Release Music Video For “Don’t Be Long”
Tour With Tigers Jaw Starts September 29th
Photo Credit: Rachel Del Sordo
Philadelphia’s Cherry have just announced the release of their new three-song 7″, Strong, out now on Lame-O Records. In conjunction with the release, the band is premiering a music video for their lead single “Don’t Be Long,” directed by Russell Edling. Strong is available for purchase now physically and digitally via Lame-O Records. The 7″ was pressed to a limited 300 copies in advance of the band’s upcoming stint opening for Tigers Jaw on their self-titled 10 year tour. The tour begins September 29th, a list of dates can be found below.
Watch Cherry’s new video for “Don’t Be Long.”
Cherry is a Philadelphia indie rock project featuring ex-Kite Party members Russell Edling and Justin Fox on guitar, Lame-O Records owner Eric Osman on drums, and current Three Man Cannon members Matt Schimelfenig on keys and Spencer Colmbs on bass.
Tour Dates (w/ Tigers Jaw):
09/29 – Los Angeles, CA – The Echo
09/30 – Los Angeles, CA – The Echo
10/02 – Oakland, CA – Starline Social Club
10/04 – Portland, OR – Hawthorne Theatre
10/05 – Vancouver, BC – Biltmore Cabaret
10/06 – Seattle, WA – The Crocodile
10/07 – Boise, ID – Neurolux
10/09 – Denver, CO – Marquis Theatre
10/11 – Omaha, NE – Slowdown
10/12 – Chicago, IL – Bottom Lounge
10/13 – Ann Arbor, MI – The Blind Pig
10/14 – Cleveland Heights, OH – The Grog Shop
10/16 – New York, NY – Market Hotel
10/17 – Cambridge, MA – The Sinclair
10/18 – Cambridge, MA – The Sinclair
10/19 – Scranton, PA – Montage Mountain
Strong Tracklisting
1. Don’t Be Long
2. The 15th
3. Occasional
Biography:
Moments of failure can bring on moments of extreme clarity. You thought it was one way and then you are faced with the unavoidable truth that in fact it was and will always be some other way. For Cherry songwriter Russell Edling, that experience was felt heavily in the final days of his previous musical project, Kite Party. He started to notice that the more serious they began to take their art, the less it started to mean. As this was happening, Edling experienced a major life event that put the silliness of that seriousness into perspective, and forced him to re-asses how he felt about the band and music. He started Cherry in an attempt to look at his art in a different way, enlisting ex-Kite Party guitarist Justin Fox, Three Man Cannon’s Spenser Colmbs, and friends Jesse Kennedy and Eric Osman (Lame-O Records) to write a record that they enjoyed, and that never got too caught up in the gravity of trying to be an artist.
The concept of investigating and discovering only to be humbled by what one finds is the grassy field that Cherry wanders aimlessly through in their upcoming record, Dumbness. The record’s first lyrical idea comes in the form of “Everybody’s dumb / go and ask anyone.” The great equalizer of universal human foolishness. We all take ourselves too seriously, we are too precious, too self-obsessed as we walk down the street thinking about cheeseburgers, dogshit clinging to the treads in our business casual footwear.
Musically, Dumbness covers a lot of ground; stopping momentarily in may different stylistic regions only to move on. One gets a sense that the band is turning stones, thinking “maybe there is something under here.” Through tales of nostalgic skateboarding adventures, fictional narrations of love and death, and slapstick word vomit, Cherry makes an honest effort to communicate. To hold thee down for a few moments just to say “hi hello we are all here together”.
On September 21st, 2018, Cherry follows up their debut with the release of their new three-song 7″ Strong, featuring the lead single “Don’t Be Long.” The new 7″ was pressed to a limited 300 copies in advance of their upcoming tour with Tigers Jaw.
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