“Meet Talk In Tongues, a four-piece from LA and your newest favorite psych-rock band. “Still Don’t Seem To Care,” (is) a glistening piece of psych-rock perfection that will get stuck in your head for the rest of the day.” -Noisey
“Drawing from everything from Pink Floyd to 90s Creation band sounds and a deep desire to create (in the words of guitarist and singer McCoy Kirgo) “big music, like something you’d hear at a fest like Glastonbury,” the result is just that.” -KCRW
“…cymbal crashes and swells of guitars echoing in a space the size of a New Mexico canyon…” -IMPOSE
But they almost immediately found that they all shared limitless drive and direction and an unexpected common ground in several generations of psychedelic music, from the ’60s Pink Floyd and 13th Floor Elevators through the unstoppable Creation Records roster in the 90s. Then things happened fast. By the end of their first practice together, they’d already discovered what they wanted to sound like. Says guitarist and singer Garrett Zeile: “I had songs I’d compiled over the last year, and they fit the direction we wanted-they were the building blocks. Then we all started contributing.”
They booked a show weeks after their first practice together in early 2014, mostly just to prove to the world that they really existed. (If you were there, you’re part of a very lucky and exclusive group!) The very next day, they went into their home studio and recorded their first single “Still Don’t Seem To Care,” a dreamy, ethereal neo-psychedelic song mixed by Claudius Mittendorfer (Arctic Monkeys, Interpol). It was just the kind of sound he’d been looking for, says Kirgo: “I wanted to play big music, like something you’d hear at a fest like Glastonbury. That’s what made me want to dive into psychedelic rock.”
And almost instantly, it lit up the Internet and led to an immediate signing with Fairfax Recordings, whose legendary in-house studio sealed the deal for Talk In Tongues: “It just so happened that the first label that hit us up was Fairfax, and it was exactly what we were looking for,” says Rector. “Every step of the way, there’s been a new opportunity, and we go for it. It’s all been very serendipitous.”
Slowly and a little bit unofficially, Fairfax Recording sessions that were supposed to just produce a B-side or two stretched into day after day of working on what would become their debut album. Everyone in Talk In Tongues writes and plays multiple instruments-they all play each other’s instruments, says Zeile-and everyone had a catalog of ideas they’d been saving. For the first time in his career, noticed drummer Bryan DeLeon, he was in a band where there was no such thing as writer’s block. And as the summer of 2014 ended, they decided they’d finished their full-length-two months after they’d walked in to record a single. (And the eventual B-side of that “Still Don’t Seem To Care” single? A remix by Scandinavian visionary Dungen).
With production from Kevin Augunas (Cold War Kids, Edward Sharpe), their debut album, out in May 2015 on Fairfax Recordings, links modern-day psychedelia with the foundation of early ’60’s experimentation-it’s melody and atmosphere and noise-as-beauty captured (barely) in songs that should be blasting out of the Coachella main stage somewhere around midnight. Says drummer DeLeon: “We’re excited this is 100% ours, and we put in the world-every part of this album is an expression of ourselves.”
TOUR DATES:
2/24 – Fresno, CA – Strummers
2/25 – San Francisco, CA – Rickshaw Stop (Noise Pop Festival) %
2/26 – Santa Cruz, CA – Crepe Place %
2/27 – San Luis Obispo, CA – SLO Brewing Company %
3/17 – 3/22 – Austin, TX – SXSW
4/14 – Montreal, QC – Quai Des Brumes
4/15 – Toronto, ON – Legendary Horseshow Tavern
4/16 – Grand Rapids, MI – Founders Brewing Company
4/17 – Chicago, IL – Empty Bottle
4/18 – Cincinnati, OH – The Woodward Theater
4/19 – St. Louis, MO – Off Broadway
4/21 – Nashville, TN – Stone Fox
4/22 – Little Rock, AR – Sticky Fingerz
4/23 – Tulsa, OK – Vanguard
4/28 – El Paso, TX – Valley Bar
5/05 – Portland, OR – Mississippi Studios
5/06 – Vancouver, BC – The Media Club
5/08 – Seattle, WA – The Tractor Tavern
5/09 – Spokane, WA – The Bartlett
5/10 – Boise, ID – Neurolux
5/12 – Salt Lake City, UT – Kilby Court
5/13 – Denver, CO – Bluebird Theater
% = w/ Surfer Blood
Talk In Tongues
Alone With a Friend
(Fairfax)
Street Date: May 19, 2015
Pre-Order starts on March 10, 2015
Track List:
1. Time’s Still (For No One Yet)
2.While Everyone Was Waiting
3. Mas Doper (Love Me Probably)
4. Still Don’t Seem To Care
5. After Tonight
6. Always Fade
7. Call For No One Else
8. She Lives In My House
9. Who Would’ve Guessed
10. Always All The Time
11. Something Always Changes
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