Mating Ritual Release New Album, 'The Bungalow.'
Above: cover art for ‘The Bungalow’
MATING RITUAL
—LOS ANGELES’ INDIE ROCK DUO—
RELEASE NEW ALBUM
THE BUNGALOW
TODAY, AUGUST 21
NASHVILLE, TN (August 21, 2020) – The Los Angeles indie rock duo Mating Ritual have released The Bungalow today via Smooth Jaws. The 13-track collection marks the band’s fourth full-length album in four years.
Led by brothers Ryan Marshall Lawhon and Taylor Lawhon, Mating Ritual pledged to release five albums in five years and are sticking to it. “We wanted this one to be almost entirely light-hearted,” Ryan recently told American Songwriter. One groove-filled single from the project, “Voodoo,” found Billboard calling it “yet another jam” from the duo’s new album. Click here to watch the captivating lyric video for the most recent single, “Unusual.”
Loosely inspired by their east Los Angeles home, The Bungalow adds elements of Bossa Nova and Disco to the brothers already lush set of influences. Finished on the day before mandatory quarantine started in Los Angeles, the album isn’t so much a reflection of the current state of the world, it’s a tongue-in-cheek look at the world they thought they were living in.
Track listing for The Bungalow:
“Welcome To The Bungalow”
“The Bungalow”
“Voodoo”
“Elastic Summer”
“The Third Steepest Street In America”
“Unusual”
“King Of The Doves”
“Heart Don’t Work”
“My Postmates Is Here”
“ok”
“Raining In Paradise”
“Moon Dust”
“So Long, Los Guapos”
Previously known as Pacific Air, brothers Ryan Marshall Lawhon and Taylor Lawhon set out on an ambitious 5 albums in 5 years. After completing three albums in as many years, How You GonnaStop It? (2017) Light Myself On Fire (2018) and Hot Content (2019), the brothers are again ahead of schedule with a completed fourth album, The Bungalow (August 21st, 2020), locked and loaded. The three albums have garnered a combined 45+ million streams and widespread praise from the likes of Stereogum, Consequence of Sound, Billboard, Zane Lowe, Buzzbands and more. All of which helped set the stage for Mating Ritual’s first headline North American tour (Fall, 2019), where they sold out shows and filled every room along the way.
Above: Mating Ritual, credit Adam Reynolds