New EP Party Of The Century out January 29
The Albuquerque / Bay Area-based pop group, Albuquerque / Bay Area-based pop group Gold Record return for their 7th studio release of this quarantine season. Mixed by Matthew Neighbour (Matt Corby, The Avalanches), Party of the Century will be released on January 29 (pre-order). Today the band is pleased to share "Oh, Honeybee" the latest single to be lifted from the forthcoming release. The track debuted today at V13 Magazine and will be on all streaming platforms this Friday.
On the song bassist Evan Michalski says, "Oh, Honeybee was the return to our band roots using live drums and a rock feel." He adds, "The whole song captured a cool, frenetic White Stripes "Icky Thump"-era sound mixed with Arctic Monkeys feel that we just rolled with. Once we added the intro sax over the synth guitar and heard it going into the opening drum fill the first time - we knew we had a monster on our hands." Gold Record's Noah Clark adds "Unlike most of my songs 'Oh, Honeybee' began with a drum loop I had been working on." Clark says, "The song began to take shape with the dark piano chords, glissando and the heavy, fuzzy counter melody. At some point it was taking a 'Mouse On The Keys' or 'Go Go Penguin' sort of a vibe, which had not been a Gold Record vibe up to that point. But, it was certainly a sound I was interested in exploring. So the guiding light was 'What would it sound like if a progressive or post rock band were pitching a song for a pop artist?" And that's the genesis of 'Oh, Honeybee." Mouse On The Keys meets Harry Styles."Gold Record formed during shelter-in-place as a means to express creative energy over Zoom. The band is a suffusion of modern pop sensibility bleeding into a palette of classic rock influences. Their latest outing, Party of the Century, is an upbeat romp of party jams, classic 1970's festival music, and big rock energy fronted by lead single "Oh, Honeybee".
The band is a three-piece pop band that takes influence from a wide range of pop music recorded between 1973 and 2022. Equally inspired by classic pop acts like ELO, Aerosmith, and modern artists like Vulfpeck or Carly Rae Jepsen who fuse positivity with prolific output, the group banded together under the name Gold Record. The name simultaneously evokes a classic musical symbol (the gold record), while also paying homage to the Voyager space project where Carl Sagan sent a gold-plated LP of information about our civilization out to the cosmos on the Voyager spacecraft. That same spirit of the collaboration between art & science and sending directed creative energy out into the universe inspired this group into being.Listen here:
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