Pottery announce debut LP with lead single "Texas Drums Pt I & II"

"Texas Drums Pt I & II" is actually one track, but has been split into two for the video below, which is co-directed by Pottery's Paul Jacobs and Jacob Shepansky, alongside Meagan Callen and Charlie Coote.

Pottery's debut album Welcome To Bobby’s Motel was recorded at Montreal's Break Glass studios with producer Jonathan Schenke (Parquet Courts, Snail Mail).

The band have released a statement to go alongside their album announcement:

"Who is “Bobby,” you ask?

"Enter Pottery. Enter Paul Jacobs, Jacob Shepansky, Austin Boylan, Tom Gould, and Peter Baylis. Enter the smells, the cigarettes, the noise, their van Mary, their friend Luke, toilet drawings, Northern California, Beatles accents, Taco Bell, the Great Plains, and hot dogs. Enter love and hate, angst and happiness, and everything in between. Beginning as an inside joke between the band members, Bobby and his “motel” have grown into so much more. They’ve become the all-encompassing alt-reality that the band built themselves, for everyone else. So, in essence, Bobby is Pottery and his motel is wherever they are.

"But really, Bobby is a pilot, a lumberjack, a stay at home dad, and a disco dancer that never rips his pants. He's a punching bag filled with comic relief. He laughs in the face of day-to-day ambiguity, as worrying isn’t worth it to Bobby. There’s a piece of him in everyone, there to remind us that things are probably going to work out, maybe. He’s you. He’s him. He’s her. He’s them. Bobby is always there, painted in the corner, urging you to relax and forget about your useless worries. And his motel? Well, the motel is life. It might not be clean, and the curtains might not shut all the way. The air conditioner might be broken, and the floors might be stained. But that’s okay, because you don’t go to Bobby’s Motel for the glamour and a good night’s sleep, the minibar, or the full-service sauna. You go to Bobby’s Motel to feel, to escape, to remember, to distract. You go for the late nights and early mornings, good times and the bad. You might spend your entire life looking for Bobby’s Motel and just when you think you will never find it, you realize you’ve been there all along. It’s filthy and amazing and you dance, and you love it."

Tracklist:

1. Welcome To Bobby's Motel
2. Hot Heater
3. Under the Wires
4. Bobby's Forecast
5. Down in the Dumps
6. Reflection
7. Texas Drums Pt I & II
8. NY Inn
9. What's in Fashion
10. Take Your Time
11. Hot Like Jungle