‘Lonesome Rambler’ by Bret Koontz & Truancy Club | New Album, ‘A Sparkle Road Cult’
Exclusive video premiere of ‘Lonesome Rambler’ by Bret Koontz & Truancy Club, taken from the upcoming album, ‘A Sparkle Road Cult’, out November 18th via Earth Libraries.
“‘Lonesome Rambler’ is a song full of archetypes: ramblers, gamblers, rangers, strangers, and fools. It looks at the idea of becoming what you romanticize and how idealized lifestyles are unwittingly reshaped through that becoming. What’s left is an arrival point beyond recognition. The song’s propulsive shuffle outlines flashes of a transient life with spotty cell phone service and unreliable recollections. What’s been saved is bitcrushed on a hardware sampler and what’s been left behind is…unclear. A new major arcana for the modern loser.” Bret Koontz
The sound at the center of ‘A Sparkle Road Cult’ is Bret’s voice. It’s an idiosyncratic writer and composer’s voice that has shades of the outsider sounds of Robert Wyatt, Syd Barrett, and Arthur Russell. The accompanying arrangements bring to mind the songcraft of the Carpenters and Prefab Sprout-esque Sophisti-Pop shaken up/down by a touch of the large format boogie of Wings and raw power pop of Big Star.
Thur 11/3 Nashville, TN at Dee’s Country Cocktail Lounge with Quichenight
Fri 11/4 Birmingham, AL at the Firehouse with Janet Simpson
Sat 11/5 Athens, GA with the Curls
Sun 11/6 Richmond, VA with Hearts In Exile
Mon 11/7 Philadelphia, PA at Launderette Records with Zinske and Special World
Tues 11/8 New York, NY at C’mon Everybody with Fielded
Wed 11/9 Athens, OH
Fri 11/18 Chicago, IL *Record Release* at Constellation with Tasha and Moontype
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