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Bartees Strange, Eric Slick, Ohmme / Anjimile – Province / Ever New – New 7″ Single Record 2022 Psychic Hotline Vinyl – Indie Rock
Bartees Strange, Eric Slick, Ohmme / Anjimile – Province / Ever New
Label: | Psychic Hotline – PSY – 016 |
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Format: |
Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM
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Country: | US |
Released: | Apr 6, 2022 |
Genre: | Rock |
Style: | Indie Rock |
A | Bartees Strange, Eric Slick, Ohmme (2)– | Province | 4:36 |
B | Anjimile– | Ever New | 4:05 |
- Written By – Beverly Glenn-Copeland (tracks: B), TV On The Radio (tracks: A)
“Province” began with Eric Slick, who was the producer behind the track. The multi-instrumentalist, solo musician, and Dr. Dog drummer had been obsessed with Return to Cookie Mountain, TVOTR’s third record, as a kid, and found himself revisiting it again and again. This past year, he made his own rough acoustic cover of “Province,” before deciding to reach out to Bartees Strange and having him contribute vocals. TV on the Radio was pivotal for Bartees — the moment he saw the band perform is seared into his memory. He came across their performance on The Late Show with David Letterman while channel surfing one night when he was a kid, and was immediately enraptured by their performance. He hadn’t known what he wanted to do musically until he saw them perform, and it changed the possibilities of his life. Here, in his interpretation of the song, his voice is cavernous here, fleshed out atop a bed of Mellotron, Moog, and MPC instrumentations from Slick and celestial swells added by Ohmme’s Sima Cunningham and Macie Stewart.
Anjimile’s interpretation of Glenn-Copeland’s “Ever New” came together in a more solitary way, recorded alone in their Boston apartment. In his cover, the original seven-minute new age ballad from Glenn-Copeland’s revolutionary 1986 album Keyboard Fantasies is trimmed down, sonically simplified to its core. Anjimile moves it more into a folk territory, building out the sonic world with the delicate, tender acoustic guitar lines and finger picking that’s been an identifier across their own catalog. It’s a more muted, subtle palette translating Glenn-Copeland’s epic of springtime bloom and rebirth, but emanates that same tenderness. Anjimile’s stunning vocal performance ushering the hymn into new direct clarity.
This is the second release from Psychic Hotline’s Singles Series.
credits
Digital release September 28, 2021
Vinyl Release – April 2022
A SIDE:
Recorded at Strange America Studios.
Mixed by Jeremy Ferguson at Battle Tapes.
Mastered by Ryan Schwabe.
Eric Slick – vocals, guitar, bass, synth, drums, drum programming.
Ohmee (Sima Cunningham & Macie Stewart) – vocals.
Bartees Strange – vocals.
B SIDE:
Recorded and mixed by Anjimile Chithambo in Boston, MA.
Mastered by Ryan Schwabe.
Package Design: Marshall Rake & Will Hackney