Celebration detail new album Wounded Healer and unveil magnificent lead track "Freedom Ring"
Baltimore group Celebration are back with "Freedom Ring", the first track from upcoming fifth record Wounded Healer.
The group are teasing the follow up to 2014's Albumin with an invigorating burst of dream-draped pop. Chugging guitars cavort with psychedelic organs and a range of twisting, turning vocals - it's a heady excursion into hope and summer sun that oozes breathless beauty.
Celebration, built around the core trio of Katrina Ford, husband Sean Antanaitis, and percussionist David Bergander, enlisted the help of a mighty cast of friends and collaborators for the LP - 17 extra pairs of hands in total. Former members Walker Teret and Tony Drummond are heavily involved; The Twanger Sisters appear on "Freedom Ring", while Wildhoney's Lauren Shusterich and Future Islands' Samuel T. Herring also make appearances.
"Midlife, we find ourselves dealing with bathroom renovations, death and elder care for parents, raising kids, careers, multiple surgeries, and totally fucked scheduling," notes Ford. "But despite it and yet inspired by it all, we have a place to come together and do this thing we love."
"I'd like to think we paint emotional landscapes, maybe a theatrical version of real life in broad strokes. A musical revival tent... electric church," Ford continues. "Turning the hard times into sermon, tales of redemption and homecoming. Licking the wounds and tending to the den."
Tracklist:
- Rolling On
- Velvet Glove
- Spider
- Sacred Clown
- Summer Season
- Granite
- Freedom Ring
- Stevie
- Georgia Roots
- Paper Trails
- Drum and Phife
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