{"id":2445493,"date":"2019-06-19T09:22:25","date_gmt":"2019-06-19T15:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=849900"},"modified":"2019-06-19T09:22:25","modified_gmt":"2019-06-19T15:22:25","slug":"the-hold-steady-prep-first-lp-in-five-years-thrashing-thru-the-passion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/the-hold-steady-prep-first-lp-in-five-years-thrashing-thru-the-passion\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hold Steady Prep First LP in Five Years, \u2018Thrashing Thru the Passion\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Hold Steady<\/a> will release their seventh LP, Thrashing Thru the Passion<\/em>, on August 16th. The album, which follows 2014\u2019s Teeth Dreams<\/em><\/a>, compiles five new songs with five others issued digitally over the past three years.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Brooklyn sextet previewed the record with opener \u201cDenver Haircut,\u201d a signature surge of snarling electric guitars, chiming piano chords and the clever, deadpan observations of frontman Craig Finn.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cHe shaved his head at the airport\/In a bar at the end of the concourse,\u201d the singer notes on the track. \u201cHe said you\u2019re kind of catching me at a transitional time\/I\u2019m a bright light burning into a dark horse\/She said I\u2019ll strap on the saddle\/And I\u2019m sorry but this city\u2019s a cesspool\/I\u2019ve kissed and I\u2019ve cackled with half of these jackals\/Still couldn\u2019t get any jet fuel.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Thrashing Thru the Passion<\/em> also features new songs \u201cEpaulets,\u201d \u201cYou Did Good Kid,\u201d \u201cTraditional Village\u201d and \u201cBlackout Sam\u201d \u2014 all of which the Hold Steady recorded with producer Josh Kaufman and engineer D. James Goodwin in early 2019 in Woodstock, New York.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe thought \u2018Denver Haircut\u2019 sounded like the first track on a record. \u2018Blackout Sam\u2019 sounded like it should close an album side,\u201d Finn said in a statement on Bandcamp<\/a>. \u201cIn fact, these five songs together sounded like a cool A side of an album. So, after D. James Goodwin mixed the songs, we decided to put them together with some of our favorite songs we\u2019d recorded in the past few years and make it an album. We pondered a track list for a bit, had our friend Dave Gardner master it, and here it is. We call it Thrashing Thru The Passion<\/em>, which is taken from a line on \u2018You Did Good Kid.’\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The LP\u2019s five remaining songs \u2014 \u201cEntitlement Crew,\u201d \u201cConfusion in the Marketplace,\u201d \u201cT-shirt Tux,\u201d<\/a> \u201cStar 18\u201d and \u201cThe Stove & the Toaster\u201d<\/a>  \u2014 were all previously released during a wave of periodic double-singles dating back to late 2017.<\/span><\/p>\n

In his statement, Finn commented on the band\u2019s recent pivot away from traditional albums and tours.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of things have changed since we started in 2003,\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019ve changed the way we approach touring, opting for multi show weekends in bigger cities rather than the skullduggery of month long slogs. This is more realistic for where we are at now, and we\u2019ve also found it to make the band much more musical. More of our time together is spent playing and performing music than setting up and taking down gear, driving it to the next place, setting it up again. Also, these runs of shows have reinforced what an amazing community exists around this band, and how it keeps growing. All in all, making this change to the way we approach shows has given a new life to the band.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve also made changes in how we release music,\u201d he continued. \u201cIn late 2017, we dropped \u2018Entitlement Crew\u2019 and \u2018A Snake in the Shower\u2019 as a surprise before our second annual Massive Nights run at the Brooklyn Bowl. We made it available on Bandcamp, with a suggested donation that raised money for a charity. We\u2019ve repeated that a number of times now, dropping these digital singles just before a run of shows. It\u2019s been fun to release music this way, it feels almost like a new episode of a serial. It also allowed us to escape some of the promotional obligations that come with releasing a full LP. In short, it keeps things exciting and fresh.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

While Finn emphasized that their release methodology remains in flux, he said the album format \u201cfelt right this time.\u201d He continued, \u201cWe can\u2019t say what we will do next time, but with the recording industry where it is in 2019, it feels wide open. We will continue to take the advice Paul Stanley offered on the classic Kiss song, \u2018Room Service,\u2019 and do what we feel.\u201d  <\/span><\/p>\n

via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Hold Steady will release their seventh LP, Thrashing Thru the Passion, on August 16th. The album, which follows 2014\u2019s Teeth Dreams, compiles five new songs with five others issued digitally over the past three years. The Brooklyn sextet previewed the record with opener \u201cDenver Haircut,\u201d a signature surge of snarling electric guitars, chiming piano […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2445493","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-21 05:26:02","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley's Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2445493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2445493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2445493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2445493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}