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Teenage Bottlerockets, Suzi Moon, Shocktroopers
All Ages
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7pm
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Theyve toured the world countless times. They kept the leather jacket-and-Converse look alive through an increasingly neon landscape. Theyve written songs about KISS, Top Gun and Minecraft. Hell, theyve even been on CNN a few times! Please welcome back to the spotlight Wyomings own Teenage Bottlerocket, whose ninth album, the 12-track Sick Sesh! traffic-cone-orange cover art and all will be released 08/27/2021 on Fat Wreck Chords.
This record is 12 songs because 14 was too long, cracks vocalist/guitarist Ray Carlisle. We wanna keep the energy up.
Recorded in November 2020 at the Blasting Room (the bands eighth straight full-length with producer Andrew Berlin), Sick Sesh! is a little bit rougher around the edges than the last few TBR albums, from the haunting Statistic to the panic-inducing Strung Out On Stress to the buzzsaw lead of Semi Truck. According to Carlisle, that was on purpose.
We spent a lot of time on guitar tones this time around that was important for us, he says. We made sure to bring the noisy, loud, irritate your fuckin mom guitar back. Theres a ton of intentional guitar noise and feedback. We dug up the amps we used for Freak Out! and They Came From The Shadows. This is punk rock, after all. Stay Rad! Is a great record, but its very radio friendly. I wanted to do the opposite of that: Lets get fuckin noisy.
While the bulk of Sick Sesh! was written in January 2020 (with Statistic actually co-written between Carlisle and his son Milo), the COVID pandemic allowed for the band to take a little extra time for fine tuning, and the resulting tracks are some of the most stylistically diverse on the record. First up, theres the Templeman-penned Strung Out On Stress, the fastest, angriest track on Sick Sesh!, all about losing your mind during the pandemic. On the flipside, theres the mid-tempo, melodic track The Squirrel, written by bassist Miguel Chen and sung by Templeman, thats literally about a cute little rodent.
He had too much time on his hands during the pandemic, Carlisle jokes. How did it become a Teenage Bottlerocket song? Im not sure. But it has the best guitar lead weve ever written!
Chen also wrote the infectious sing-along Ghost Story as well as the album-closing Moving On, which marks the first time Carlisle has ever sung Chens lyrics on a Teenage Bottlerocket album. The song, about the bassists decision to move from his hometown of Laramie, Wyoming, to Texas to be with his ailing father, demonstrates a new side of Teenage Bottlerocket thats reflective, wistful and dare we say a little mature. (It felt good to sing that one, says Carlisle.)
With more than 100 original songs already in their catalog, how does the band stay motivated when theyre eight records deep?
Were always in competition with ourselves, Carlisle explains. The real competition is between me and Kody. Its like, You wrote a song that destroys everything else on this record. Let me try to do that to you real quick. Hows that feel? And then he comes back and one ups me.
Its all about the songs, he continues. The songs carry this record all the way. Thats not to say there are bad songs on our other records we have a hard time releasing a shitty song. But these songs are especially great. You know ALLs best-of record where Allroy is dissecting a musical note? I felt we kind of tapped into that record in a great way, not in a Oh no, theyre experimental now! way. This is a Teenage Bottlerocket record through and through, but theres a lot of hidden elements.
Carlisles pride about Sick Sesh! is obvious, but hes not the only one who loves the album.
Fat Mike called me and said, Hey, this is your best record, Carlisle recalls. I said, Cool, thanks for noticing.
With Sick Sesh! ready to drop, Teenage Bottlerocket will return to the road once more throughout 2021 and beyond, and you can expect to hear plenty of new tracks peppered into their already high-energy sets. Given that the band is already two decades old, however, is there any chance of the band slowing down? Carlisle shoots that idea down right away.
I want to have the best next 10 years, the singer says. Weve grinded the grind. Now we get to actually enjoy being a band, and not think too much about different ways to try and make it. Were riding this wave we built ourselves. I wanna surf it for another 10 years.
Well there you have it: The three things in life can always count on are death, taxes and Teenage Bottlerocket. But before Carlisle signs off, he has a question for all the fans out there,
Whats your favorite Teenage Bottlerocket song? he asks. Bzzt! Wrong answer. Its on this record, you just havent heard it yet.
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430 S. 10th st.
Boise, ID 83702
United States
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