Blank Range – In Unison (album download)
Blank Range releases a new album titled “In Unison“. Their debut, Marooned With the Treasure was a favorite of mine on 2017 and their live set backed that up. Here’s some info on the upcoming album from the PR squad.
The ten songs on ‘In Unison,’ all self-penned and self-produced by Blank Range, serve as a natural extension of the band’s live shows – recorded in an old Tennessee farmhouse with minimal gear and even less second-guessing.
As Blank Range saw their steadily-growing gigs become nightly celebrations of community and shared existence, they felt the best way to channel that phenomenon on tape was simply to emulate the environments where they’ve felt it most powerfully. While the album’s songs range from high-energy thrashers to pedal-steel slow burners, the themes of unity in loneliness and connection in isolation bring a coherent thread to the new project.
“We’ve been in this game for so long and taking baby steps all along the way, being able to look back at this year and having gotten to go on the tours that we’ve done feels awesome, man,” said Childers, who joins his Blank Range bandmates for a Saturday show at The Outpost in Knoxville’s “Happy Holler” neighborhood. “We’re very grateful, and we know we’re in a position a lot of people would very much like to be in. When you’re in the thick of it and in the day-to-day, it’s not always easy to see, but my gratitude helps me to take a step back.”
We’ve gained a lot of confidence; we recorded an album that never came out, and we’ve gone through a lot of trial and error over the years to get to the point where we’re not now,” Childers said. “I think that confidence shows through, and I think we’ve all really developed our own literal voices. The way we sing has developed a lot over the years, and it’s something we’ve worked really hard on. Our harmonies have been a big focus.”
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