French Cassettes singer and songwriter Scott Huerta was living beneath a stairwell in San Francisco, CA (cramped, but only $200 a month) when he wrote what would become his band's sophomore LP, Rolodex. "I adopted the mentality, which was probably unhealthy, that every song I wrote needed to be my favorite song," he remembers. "I lost my mind so many times in the middle of the night."
The eight tracks and 24 minutes of Rolodex are an epic statement of purpose in a decidedly taut package; hook-filled and rooted in pop, layered with intricate vocals and counter-harmonies, inventive percussion, and every shade of clean and fuzzy guitars stacked up like an orchestra. French Cassettes will release Rolodex on December 11 via Tender Loving Empire + today shared the video for the "disco-infused, power-pop, shimmering indie thrasher" (BreakThru Radio) "Utah" to announce the album that's been eight years in the making. "I watched a video of Bill Withers sweating out a tune in a turtleneck and that image just stayed in my mind," says Huerta. "So this song is what I imagined a young Bill would sing to himself on a solo road trip to Utah in a FIAT Spider with nothing packed but a backup turtleneck. All we know about this guy is he just 'needs to go fast'. Where to? No one knows... maybe Utah."Watch the "Utah" video here:
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