West Coast rockers DAWES tease October’s album with new single, ‘Still Strangers Sometimes’

CALIFORNIA rockers DAWES follow up 2022’s ‘Misadventures of Doomscroller’ album with new long player ‘Oh Brother,’ set for release October 11th via Dead Ringers, the band’s own imprint.

And today DAWES release new single ‘Still Strangers Sometimes,’ to celebrate the news.  

“It’s a song about the spiritual investigation of long-term relationships,” said the band’s Taylor Goldsmith. “How a part of ourselves will be unknowable forever, despite our deep connections and intimate understandings of each other.”

‘Oh Brother’ marks a distinctive new chapter for DAWES co-founders Taylor and Griffin Goldsmith following the amicable departure of two bandmates in 2023. Each track was initially recorded live with Taylor on guitar and vocals, and Griffin on drums. Additional studio instrumentation followed with touring guitarist Trevor Menear, the nine heartfelt songs moving seamlessly between folk rock, piano ballads, and sprawling jams.

“All you can really do is find out what are the most essential, truest, and idiosyncratic parts of yourself,” added Taylor. “And I like the fact Griffin and I are kind of clinging to each other and holding on to each other more than we ever have.

“We’re grateful for each other in a new way. But we’ve also been through a lot. It feels like we’re reborn in a way, and I mean that with so, so much love and gratitude to everyone we’ve ever played with before. This is what it means to be a lifer, to have iterations. It means having phases and chapters, and this is a very clear delineation as to the beginning of a new one. So, ‘Oh Brother’ feels like a ninth record, but it also feels like a first record.”

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