Dan’s passion runs through Easy Eye’s in-house songwriting, production and the overall cohesive vision of the label.
It’s exciting to see the record label and recording studio evolve and begin a worldwide partnership with the fine folks at Concord.”Ĭoncord’s Chief Label Executive Tom Whalley had his own piece to say about the deal, “I’m thrilled to partner with Dan and his label Easy Eye Sound. “When I founded Easy Eye Sound a decade ago,” Auerbach stated via press release, referring to the studio and label together, “It was meant as a home base for my musical vision and as a way to discover and support artists I believe in. Some of the more critically successful records put out by the label include Shannon and the Clams’ Onion (2018), Yola’s Walk Through the Fire (2019), Jimmy “Duck” Holmes’ Cypress Grove (2019) and John Anderson’s Years (2020). Named after Auerbach’s recording studio, Easy Eye Sound has released 20 albums since he founded it. As part of the deal, Concord will also distribute all Easy Eye Sound’s catalog albums from now on.Īuerbach formed the label in 2017 when he released his sophomore solo album Waiting on a Song. And then, right as her band was getting invited on big tours with bands like Greta Van Fleet and The Black Keys, her father was diagnosed with cancer (he has since, thankfully recovered).Concord is a label collective that also includes Concord Records, Fantasy Records, Fearless Records, Loma Vista Recordings and Rounder Records. In 2019, a lurking intruder drove Shaw to move out of her beloved Oakland apartment she’d lived in for 14 years. In 2018, the California wildfires came unnervingly close to her parents’ homes. In 2016, the Clams’ DIY community suffered the devastating Ghost Ship warehouse fire. “It felt like the end of an era,” Shaw said about a writing period that began with the tragic death of the Clams’ former drummer Mick. Year Of The Spider rages against death, darkness, and disease with the power of a thousand angry Ronettes. It’s heartbreaking.” Watch the animated video for “Midnight Wine” below… They die when they can’t find community or peace. I’ve watched so many artists and outsiders around me struggle and flounder in this way. Blanchard shares in today’s interview with Rolling Stone: “When I wrote this song, I was thinking of friends I’ve had that have died from drug addiction and that feeling of desperation that drives you to seek shelter from reality in drugs. Shannon & The Clams today share the first song from Year Of The Spider, “Midnight Wine” along with a video directed and hand-animated by the band’s own Cody Blanchard. Year Of The Spider is available to pre-order on all formats here. For the album, the band, fronted by bass player Shannon Shaw and guitarist Cody Blanchard on lead vocals with Will Sprott on keyboards and Nate Mahan on drums, returned to Dan Auerbach’s Nashville Easy Eye Sound Studio to craft a mature, reflective, and ebullient album built for the current times, on which they have perfected their signature blend of garage-psych, doo-wop, classic R&B, and surf rock. Shannon & The Clams has announced the release of their widely anticipated sixth studio album, Y ear Of The Spider , on August 20th via Easy Eye Sound.
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