Philadelphia-based band Remember Sports have announced a new album, The Refrigerator, which arrives February 13 via Get Better Records. Following the great recent single ‘Across the Line’ is the searing, dynamic new song ‘Bug’, which is also the second track on the LP. Check it out and find the album cover and tracklist below.
About the new track, singer and guitarist Carmen Perry shared the following statement: “Have you ever stepped on food on your bedroom floor that you haven’t eaten in many days? I wrote this song in the early part of the pandemic, when everyday felt like I was alive solely to make a mess and then clean it up. Or not. It’s hard to not think about the things you don’t wanna think about when you have nothing to do.”
Perry began writing the songs on The Refrigerator in the wake of 2021’s Like a Stone, an album the band couldn’t tour due to COVID. “It felt like everything I had worked for was falling apart,” she recalled. “For a while, I wasn’t sure what the world was going to look like post-COVID, let alone my life. I was afraid I wouldn’t be able to play music the way I had before.”
At 28, she started working at an elementary school, which ended up inspiring the record. “Kids are weird and wonderful and deeply intuitive,” she said. “Helping them through COVID made me think constantly about my own childhood, memories came flooding back, and so did this intense desire to protect and nurture the little kid I used to be. That completely changed how I approached my writing, and honestly, how I approached my life.”
The band notably tracked The Refrigerator at Chicago’s Electrical Audio just after the passing of Steve Albini. “It feels like a Saturn return record,” Perry concluded. “Messy, hard, crazy-making, but ultimately healing. A convergence of all my past selves into one sad adult who needed direction and reassurance and, most of all, safety.”
The Refrigerator Cover Artwork:
The Refrigerator Tracklist:
1. Across The Line
2. Bug
3. Thumb
4. Selfish
5. Ghost
6. Fridge
7. Roadkill
8. Cut Fruit
9. Yowie
10. Zucchini
11. Soothe/Seethe
12. Nevermind
