Signals Midwest has announced a 7" with two new songs: "I Used To Draw/Wizard of Loneliness". The band is self-releasing the vinyl.
Check out the a-side after the jump.
Speaking of the new material, the band says:
We recorded these songs with J. Robbins at The Magpie Cage in Baltimore, MD in Nov. 2020, right around the time the U.S. voted that orange fascist out of office. “I Used To Draw” is one of our favorite newer songs and a good indicator of where our songwriting is headed. “Wizard Of Loneliness” is a great tune by Wild Pink, who are friends we've made through touring and one of the few bands that all four of us can agree on as being unquestionably great. Go check them out.
So...obviously it’s been a hard, weird year or so. I’d like to think that our band, when we’re not making prank phone calls and watching the Hot Dr. Pepper video on YouTube, has attempted to explore the complexity and beauty of human connection...or somethin’ like that. Signals Midwest has always kind of been a way to process and interact with what’s going on around us. Doing this band has been a beautiful and unique lens through which we have been able to see the world, and for the tangible, in-person element of that to have disappeared over the last year has been rough.
The upside of all of this is that it has given us time to collect some thoughts and ideas, set up a bunch of microphones, and get some songs out of our heads and into the world. There are a bunch more coming, but we wanted to make sure we got this out as soon as we could–as a reminder that we’re still here, there’s still a lot of work to do, and that our global community of friends and peers, while it may look different right now, still very much exists.
