The Brooklyn indie duo Tanlines are again with a brand new music, “Outer Banks,” which can seem on their first album in eight years, The Massive Mess. The album arrives Could 19 by way of Merge.
“Outer Banks” is a booming observe that guitarist/vocalist Eric Emm mentioned in a press release is “about being a perfectionist,” and making an attempt to shake off the thought of that being a praise. “I’ve come to comprehend it’s really a legal responsibility,” Emm added. “That is very true in any form of partnership. Making concessions, changes and letting issues go are all elements of a profitable endeavor.”
“Outer Banks” was launched with a goofy music video through which Emm and percussionist Jesse Cohen “current” the music in PowerPoint/Keynote kind. “I’ve spent the previous couple of years in work environments the place the deck appears to have develop into the first communication instrument for younger professionals,” Cohen mentioned. “I needed to discover a approach to make use of that language to inform the story of our music, ‘Outer Banks.’ Hopefully this video resonates and tickles anybody who has sat via the form of presentation at work the place somebody in a field on the display simply reads the slides out loud. Welcome to Tanlines’ hybrid work period!”
Tanlines emerged from Brooklyn’s late-2000s indie rock/electro scene, gaining traction with some early singles and EPs, earlier than releasing their debut, Combined Feelings, in 2012. Their second album, Highlights, arrived in 2015. Within the eight years since, Cohen moved right into a profession in advertising and marketing and began the music podcast, No Results. In the meantime, Emm moved along with his household to Connecticut, the place he continued making music, together with a 2018 EP of kids’s music, Presents, and the songs that comprise The Massive Mess.
Although billed as an album by Tanlines, The Massive Mess is basically an Emm solo effort, with Cohen giving his bandmate the OK to maintain utilizing their title even when his contributions have been minimal. “I’m like, ‘No matter you are able to do to maintain this factor going, do it,’” Cohen mentioned. “Eric stopped going to high school as a youngster to make music — it’s in his blood, the place it’s extra in my mind.”
Cohen did make some contributions to the album, spending 10 days with Emm in his Connecticut studio in early 2022 alongside unofficial third member Patrick Ford. The album was then combined by Peter Katis, who has labored with indie stalwarts the Nationwide and Interpol.
“I consider these songs as Rothko work,” Emm mentioned. “They’re huge they usually’re daring they usually’re seemingly easy, however they’ve a variety of depth they usually have interaction with you and make you’re feeling one thing.”