Americana Band I Draw Slow Release New Single "Bring Out Your Dead"

DUBLIN-BASED AMERICANA BAND
I DRAW SLOW
RELEASE NEW SINGLE
“BRING OUT YOUR DEAD”

FROM SELF-TITLED, 10-TRACK ALBUM
OUT FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9
VIA COMPASS RECORDS

Above: I DRAW SLOW album artwork

“Flat out brilliant....this band is really going places.” 
— Folk Radio 

NASHVILLE, TN (August 26, 2022) — No band more successfully bridges the gap between Ireland and Nashville than Americana band I Draw Slow. The Dublin-based group is getting ready to release their 10-track, self-titled album via Compass Records, out Friday, September 9. Following their release of “Copenhagen Interpretation” (August 12), the group gives us another look into their upcoming album with its sophomore single, “Bring Out Your Dead,” today.

Listen to “Bring Out Your Dead” here. Pre-save / Pre-order I DRAW SLOW here.

Taking influence from Fleetwood Mac’s TUSK, combined with the vocal echoes of The Mamas & The Papas, “Bring Out Your Dead” gives an Irish flair to the ‘70s soundscape carried throughout the album. The defining symbol of the song is the house — drawing inspiration from Samuel Beckett, the group explains: “If the house is a body, a person can wander from room to room and become trapped, revisiting old hurts, old pathways back to pain. Getting in from the outside takes a lot of persistence and a lot of love.” “Bring Out Your Dead” has a hypnotic melody leaving you with a longing for more.

Above: I Draw Slow; credit: Cormac Figgis

L to R: Colin Derham, Louise Holden, Dave Holden, Konrad Liddy, Adrian Hart

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 Holden 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”

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