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Wearing Out The Refrain

Bad Moves

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Format: LP

Cat No: LPDG302C

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Release Date:  13 September 2024

Label:  Don Giovanni

Packaging Type:  Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  634457181953

Genres:  Indie  

Release Date:  13 September 2024

Label:  Don Giovanni

Packaging Type:  Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  634457181977

Genres:  Indie  

  • Description

    With their third full-length, Washington, DC's Bad Moves have expanded their founding artistic identity -- a candy-coated guitar-pop shell surrounding a bitter lyrical core -- by refracting their ideas through a new set of musical forms that weaponize repetition - On the new Wearing Out the Refrain, recorded once again with producer Joe Reinhart (Hop Along, Algernon Cadwallader), Bad Moves propose that the flip side of the delirious harmony of the basement show singalong is the volatile, accusatory antiphony of a community divided by strain, shouting the same desperate hook back and forth at one another.

    Bad Moves' tag-team vocals, which forgo centering anyone one member, also let the traditionally confessional "I" become the "we" of a community, or generation. Witness the ambitious climate change metaphor of "Eviction Party," which understands the union of sugary pop and genuine angst embodied by 1960s girl-group songcraft, and uses it to expand a personal story to planetary scale. "It's my eviction, I'll cry if I want to" Bad Moves shouts, channeling the dawning millennial midlife crisis. The personal may be political, but what if both feel weighed down and trapped in circular, inescapable ruts?

    Description

    With their third full-length, Washington, DC's Bad Moves have expanded their founding artistic identity -- a candy-coated guitar-pop shell surrounding a bitter lyrical core -- by refracting their ideas through a new set of musical forms that weaponize repetition - On the new Wearing Out the Refrain, recorded once again with producer Joe Reinhart (Hop Along, Algernon Cadwallader), Bad Moves propose that the flip side of the delirious harmony of the basement show singalong is the volatile, accusatory antiphony of a community divided by strain, shouting the same desperate hook back and forth at one another.

    Bad Moves' tag-team vocals, which forgo centering anyone one member, also let the traditionally confessional "I" become the "we" of a community, or generation. Witness the ambitious climate change metaphor of "Eviction Party," which understands the union of sugary pop and genuine angst embodied by 1960s girl-group songcraft, and uses it to expand a personal story to planetary scale. "It's my eviction, I'll cry if I want to" Bad Moves shouts, channeling the dawning millennial midlife crisis. The personal may be political, but what if both feel weighed down and trapped in circular, inescapable ruts?

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. A Drowning Confession
      • 2. Let the Rats Inherit the Earth
      • 3. Eviction Party
      • 4. Hallelujah
      • 5. I Know I Know
      • 6. Outta My Head

      Side 2

      • 1. New Year's Reprieve
      • 2. Sorry That I'm Not Better
      • 3. The Undertow
      • 4. A Lapse in the Emptiness
      • 5. Days Don't Quit

    Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. A Drowning Confession
      • 2. Let the Rats Inherit the Earth
      • 3. Eviction Party
      • 4. Hallelujah
      • 5. I Know I Know
      • 6. Outta My Head
      • 7. New Year's Reprieve
      • 8. Sorry That I'm Not Better
      • 9. The Undertow
      • 10. A Lapse in the Emptiness
      • 11. Days Don't Quit