Denver band Public Opinion have announced their debut LP, Painted on Smile, arriving September 6 via Convulse Records. Lead single ‘Drawn From Memory’ arrives with a Derek Rathbun-directed video, which you can check out below.
Painted on Smile was co-produced by Militarie Gun/Regional Justice Center leader Ian Shelton and God’s Hate/Twitching Tongues member Taylor Young. “We really wanted to try and expand the sound of the band more,” vocalist Kevin Hart said in a press release. “That early 2000s stuff like The Strokes, The Hives, and Bloc Party was really important to us when we were kids, and I think this time we let a lot more of that infiltrate into what we were doing, and we ended up stumbling on more of our own sound.”
“I’m really proud of the music, but the lyrics are honestly pretty hard to read along to,” Hart added “It’s me purging a lot of things that I feel negatively about. I think so much of my previous stuff was very ‘f*ck you’ and this is much more of a ‘f*ck me,’ apologetic kind of album.”
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Public Opinion Tracklist:
1. Drawn From Memory
2. Hothead
3. Some Don’t
4. Stethoscope
5. Passes Me By
6. Chicanery
7. No Fruit At All
8. Dry Clean Only
9. Scene Missing
10. Wear & Tear
