13th Floor New Song Of The Day: The Teskey Brothers – Hold Me

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Our friends across the ditch, The Teskey Brothers, have just released a new song, titled Hold Me.

The band has also just announced the release date for their second album. Run Home Slow with be out on Friday, August 2nd.

Here’s the record company blurb with more details:

Ivy League Records is honoured to announce that The Teskey Brothers will release their timeless second record, Run Home Slow on Friday 2 August – available to pre-order on all formats now! To celebrate, the band has revealed the album’s celebratory first single and equally powerful video, ‘Hold Me’.

‘Hold Me’ feels like a fitting introduction to what is a raw, honest and masterfully crafted album. The single sees The Teskey Brothers strip back to their most rudimentary form; boots stomping on floorboards, claps holding the beat and four friends harmonising around a single microphone while lead singer Josh Teskey rouses the pack with opening line: “That storm coming down hard, I’m your shelter anytime it starts”. It’s a primal, haunting reminder of what The Teskey Brothers can do with just their voices, hands, feet and a few instruments.

Over the 11 wide-ranging tracks on Run Home Slow, The Teskey Brothers (singer Josh Teskey, guitarist Sam Teskey, bassist Brendan Love and drummer Liam Gough) more than deliver on the promise of their first record, Half Mile Harvest (2017), and manage to pull off a feat that has eluded many other bands. They have followed up a breakthrough debut with an album that not only pushes their music in new directions, and in the process solidifies their sound into something truly their own, but they’ve done it without sacrificing any of the charm and authenticity that endeared them to their ever-growing audience in the first place.

“We were really aware that we didn’t want to alienate fans,” Liam says. “We love our fans and feel really proud of the first album, but the second album needed to be a step up.” To help them navigate this process they enlisted the help of producer Paul Butler (Michael Kiwanuka, St Paul & The Broken Bones, Andrew Bird) who flew in to work with the band at their home studio in Warrandyte, Victoria. In Paul, The Teskey’s found both a mentor and critic who would allow them to progress sonically without losing the raw simplicity and space they had achieved on Half Mile Harvest.

Avoiding genre labels is something that the band have strived for musically on Run Home Slow, incorporating elements of southern rock, Americana, psychedelia, Dixieland jazz, gospel and a surprise striking pop centrepiece.

On Run Home Slow, The Teskey Brothers have made an album that honors their past, resonates wonderfully in the present and looks forward to a continually brighter future.

Run Home Slow
The Teskey Brothers
Out Friday 2 August through Ivy League Records
Available to pre-order here

Run Home Slow tracklist:
1. Let Me Let You Down
2. Carry You
3. Man Of The Universe
4. Hold Me
5. Paint My Heart
6. Rain
7. So Caught Up
8. San Francisco
9. Sunshine Baby
10. Sun Come Ease Me In
11. That Bird

 

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