more eaze has announced a new album titled sentence structure in the country. It’s set for release on March 20 via Thrill Jockey, and its bleary, stunning lead single, ‘bad friend’, is out now. Check it out below.
sentence structure in the country features Wendy Eisenberg on electric guitar, piano, and vocals, as well as guitarists Henry Earnest and Jade Guterman, cellist Alice Gerlach, and drummer Ryan Sawyer. In a statement about ‘bad friend’, mari rubio said:
Like a lot of the songs on this album, this has sat with me for years and taken many different shapes. I couldn’t really leave this one alone. It just kept coming back in my head. I hadn’t played it in years, and then when I played Chicago with Alan Sparhawke, I made a last-minute decision to come back to this song as a sort of comfort, and that opened me up to reconsidering the arrangement and form. The key for unlocking it was the pedal steel: it’s kind of about playing it in a non-traditional way, strumming it more like a normal guitar rather than using traditional pedal steel moves, but the main riff of the song is built largely about idiomatic idiosyncrasies/quirks with my pedal steel and electronics setup.
To some extent, this song lyrically is about knowing you shouldn’t have romantic feelings for a friend, but it’s also about not doing a very good job hanging out with people and generally feeling like an alien. Sort of about having trouble in Texas dealing with my social circles, especially the last few years I was there.
sentence structure in the country Cover Artwork:
sentence structure in the country Tracklist:
1. leave (again)
2. distance
3. bad friend
4. crunch the numbers
5. biters
6. the producer
7. a chorale
8. healing attempt
9. sentence structure in the country
10. move
