Americana Band I Draw Slow Release Lead Single "Copenhagen Interpretation"
I DRAW SLOW
— DUBLIN-BASED AMERICANA BAND —
RELEASE LEAD SINGLE
“COPENHAGEN INTERPRETATION”
FROM SELF-TITLED, FULL-LENGTH ALBUM
OUT FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9
VIA COMPASS RECORDS
Above: I DRAW SLOW Album Art
“Flat out brilliant....this band is really going places.”
— Folk Radio
NASHVILLE, TN (August 12, 2022) — No band more successfully bridges the gap between Dublin and Nashville than Americana band I Draw Slow. The Dublin-based group is gearing up to release their deeply personal new 10-track, self-titled album, I DRAW SLOW (out September 9) via Compass Records. The album’s lead single, “Copenhagen Interpretation,” is out today.
Listen to “Copenhagen Interpretation” here.
Pre-Save / Pre-Order I DRAW SLOW here.
“Copenhagen Interpretation” is about bringing words back down to earth. The group, found its inspiration from the George Orwell quote: “Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.” Guided by subtle banjo picking, the song floats on an early ‘70s soundscape.
Like most artists during the pandemic, the group was forced to put their tour career on hold in the spring of 2020. Independently they suffered the loss of loved ones to COVID and weathered the subsequent months of grief. When the band was finally able to reunite in 2021 in a farmyard studio in the Dublin mountains to record their new album they found themselves and their music fundamentally changed. The traditional Irish and Appalachian influences that informed I Draw Slow’s prior releases were augmented by a much wider range of influences, including sixties pop, cinematic soundscapes and the funereal jazz of New Orleans.
Lyrically, the new tracks pulled storytelling and tradition apart. “The new music represents tradition in the mixed up way that people live now,” Louise shares, “With the stories we tell to stop ourselves from going crazy and the false memories we build ourselves upon.”
Ultimately, the trauma of the pandemic is what defines the band's eponymously titled new album. Together with bandmates, Konrad Liddy (upright bass), Colin Derham (banjo), and Adrian Hart (fiddle), Louise and Dave Holden explore a broader, and darker, musical palette on the new tracks, yielding unexpected and musically satisfying results. I DRAW SLOW captures a pivotal moment in a shared human tragedy and offers a stunning portrait of the beauty that I Draw Slow salvaged from their collective pain.
Tracklisting for I DRAW SLOW:
“Bring Out Your Dead”
“Copenhagen Interpretation”
“About A Bird In An Airport Terminal”
“Dearly”
“Dublin Bay, Christmas Day”
“Crosses”
“Trouble”
“Queen Of The Wasteland”
“A chuid den tsaol”
“Leisureplex”
Above: I Draw Slow; credit: Cormac Figgis
L to R: Colin Derham, Louise Holden, Dave Holden, Konrad Liddy, Adrian Hart