Retail Drugs announce new album 'rECKless dRIVing,' release "manny" single
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NYC rock band Retail Drugs will deliver their new studio album this summer.
Revealed today, rECKless dRIVing will be released on August 1 via Fire Talk Records imprint Angel Tapes. The 11-track release features previously released single “person A” and “euphoria” from Retail Drugs’ debut album i love you so!. The album features a plethora of b-sides and demos from the ilys sessions that didn’t make it on the debut album. A new single from the record titled “manny” can be heard here. Vocalist Jake Brooks said this about the new song:
"I don’t smoke weed much. Manny began as a shared spliff between me and longtime collaborator Dylan Sky. Ali and I were over at Dylan’s in Eagle Rock working on what would become the first demos of Laveda’s upcoming record, 'Love, Darla.' Ali went to sleep while Dylan and I continued working on stuff. Eventually we smoked a spliff to stay awake longer and 'manny' was the first thing we did after that. I think the spliff wrote the song mostly. I was doing a lot of things I wouldn’t normally do on a track. I bounced a bunch of stuff from that session to tape after Ali and I moved to NYC. This song was almost a last minute add to ilys but it just couldn’t fit the track list."
Pre-saves for rECKless dRIVing can be found here.
rECKless dRIVing tracklisting:
1. little dog
2. waiting room
3. just the thing
4. still..
5. manny
6. rECK
7. person A
8. i wanna be cool
9. i just want to bring you down
10. he hears us
11. euphoria
Since 2009, MP3s and NPCs owner Terrance Pryor has written about music, conventions, cosplay, and video games for publications such as AXS, Examiner, Fake Walls, and Ranker. Based out of Los Angeles, the former rock concert promoter/radio host can be seen talking about rock music on AXS TV’s Music’s Greatest Mysteries and discussing music and whatever else on their Black Man Talks Rock channel on YouTube.