If you stop by this website with any regularity, there's a good chance you've heard some music with Kevin Copeland in the credits. The Vermont/NYC producer has worked on albums by artists such as Hannah Frances, Allegra Krieger, Lily Seabird, and Lamplight — a smattering of the best indie folk-rock on the Eastern seaboard — and his own former band the Big Net accomplished great things within that aesthetic range.
Next month Copeland will release Only Love Songs, his debut solo album. New single "Hotel Bar," out today, is a prime slice of melancholic roots rock, buoyed by the requisite pedal steel, some tasty low-end guitar work, and an opening lyrical passage that snuck up on me: "I was down at the hotel bar/ Trying to clear out my mind/ I like to think that I'm suffering/ But I know I'm doing just fine/ You like to think that you're suffering/ But you know you're doing just fine." Wilco fans will almost certainly dig this.
Watch Ian Hatcher-Williams' video for "Hotel Bar" below, where you'll also hear prior single "Stay."
TRACKLIST:
01 "My Body Is Trying To Keep Me Down Again"
02 "Whole"
03 "Stay"
04 "On"
05 "Trains And Angels"
06 "Hotel Bar"
07 "That's All Over Now"
08 "Somebody"
09 "Ohio"
10 "MONEY"
11 "Goodnight"
Only Love Songs is out 7/2. Pre-order it here.
