Gum Country announce debut album 'Somewhere' and share euphoric noise-meets-twee pop title track:
Courtney Garvin of The Courtneys has started a new project called Gum Country with multi-instrumentalist Connor Mayer. The project started in Vancouver from various four-track recordings made in an apartment, and they’re now based in Los Angeles, where they recorded their debut full-length, out June 19. The album will be self-released digitally and released on vinyl via Kingfisher Bluez , cassette via Burger Records and Dinosaur City Records and on CD via Waterslide Records .
“Somewhere” merges ’90s noise rock and twee pop, and it will give you that same euphoric tingle you felt after falling in love with your first underground jangle pop band. Nimble guitar riffs swarm around Garvin’s subtle, sweet vocals, and it captures everything great about fuzzy rock and good-natured, classic indie-pop.
“I wrote ‘Somewhere’ a couple years after moving to LA,” Garvin says of the lead single. “It’s about leaving a place that you are comfortable in and landing in a strange new one, and discovering what parts of your identity remain and which were left behind. The first line I wrote was ‘haven’t felt this way in a while, I can’t think straight can’t hide my smile, I guess this is gonna be my life for a while’, and then it was just a process of unravelling that thought.
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