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The Rills
The Rills
country: UK
genre: Alternative
styles: London Indie, Indie Rock, Post-Punk, Alternative Rock
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The Rills announce debut Album Don’t Be A Stranger, out 1st November. Along with the announcement comes lead single ‘Your Dad’s Car’, a tenderly bittersweet song inspired by the band’s first tour van that vocalist Mitch Spencer bought off an ex partner’s father. The accompanying Ace Bowerman directed video sees Mitch submerged in a sinking car, drowning amidst the lyrics of the powerful ballad.
“I used to drive an old VW when we first started touring. I bought it off an ex’s dad & for a while it was our tour van,” Mitch explains of the vulnerable, arena-ready lullaby. “I feel like this song is driving that car up to a lake, taking the handbrake off & watching it fill with water, submerge, and take all the memories of that time with it. The song is really vulnerable & dark, it’s quite twisted in a way. You can
hear all the cracks in my voice, bits of it fall in & out of time. It’s like seeing an old house from some distant memory but it’s all decayed and derelict now. I was trying to exorcise some demons on that one,” the frontman admits.
Don’t Be A Stranger was produced by Dave McCracken, the indie mastermind behind many Ian Brown solo records and key works by dEUS and The Rifles, as well as lending a hand to albums by the likes of Depeche Mode, Sports Team, The Snuts and Beyoncé. The eleven-track debut record sees these three young friends take the untapped energy that made them viral sensations and darlings of the grassroots scene and direct it into something more considered, complete and heartfelt.
“The Rills have certainly shed a skin or two to reach this point, on the eve of their effervescent debut album ‘Don’t Be A Stranger’. Produced by Dave McCracken (the indie mastermind behind many Ian Brown solo records and key works by dEUS and The Rifles as well as lending a hand to albums by the likes of Depeche Mode, Sports Team, The Snuts and Beyoncé), ‘Don’t Be A Stranger’ sees these three young friends take that untapped energy that made them viral sensations and darlings of the grassroots scene and direct it something more considered, complete and heartfelt.
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