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Blitzen Trapper Unveil Promo Video For New Album

• 21st Jun 2011

Blitzen Trapper are to release their new album American Goldwing on September 12th through Sub Pop Records, it has been announced.

Above is the promo video for the new album, which promises to house all the introspective, story-telling rock'n'roll that you'd expect from the group.

“It’s me trying to evoke a true American nostalgia” explains lead singer and songwriter Eric Earley.
 
“My vision and focus while writing our new album was on the inescapable past” Eric adds. “It’s about those feelings of being trapped in a small town. That fine line between the rural and the suburban settings that define much of America, that line between love and loss that occurs when you find yourself taking it too easy and sticking around a lonesome town for far too long.

“American Goldwing is us letting our loves and early influences hang out for all to see. We entered into the sounds we grew up with – the hard guitar rock and country picking of our younger years mixed with glimmers of our usual space-aging technology and pawn shop Casios. Heavy guitar riffs and blasting drum fills live side-by-side with plucking banjos, wailing harmonicas and muddy slide guitars. The earthiness of these songs will make you want to get loaded and get in a fight, or find a girl and fall in love forever, simultaneously.”

Blitzen Trapper are due in the UK at some point during 2011 for shows – more information can be found by following this link.

MSD