The Hard Quartet – a new band featuring Emmett Kelly, Stephen Malkmus, Matt Sweeney, and Jim White – have dropped ‘Our Hometown Boy’, the final single ahead of the release of their eponymous debut LP. It follows previous entries ‘Earth Hater’ and ‘Rio’s Song’. Check it out below.
The new song finds Emmett Kelly taking the lead vocal. “‘Our Hometown Boy’ shows why Jim White, Steve Malkmus and I are so stoked to be in a band with Emmett Kelly,” Sweeney said in a statement. “It’s, like, fucked up how good Emmett is at music.”
Kelly commented: “In ‘Our Hometown Boy,’ The Hard Quartet mythologizes the fierce inhabitants of our shared hovels and shangri-las from the vantage point of a beach famous for the undertow. A conversation about what paradise looks like peering out the window of a bar to a blizzard. Adventures in the skin trade. On the run and hitting the road. The green grass of home.”
The Hard Quartet will be released on October 4 via Matador Records.
