‘Time’s Up’ by Connie Cunningham & the Creeps | New Album, ‘Going, Going, Going, Gone: The Rare Recordings of Connie Cunningham and the Creeps Vol. 1.’
Exclusive track premiere of ‘Time’s Up’ by Connie Cunningham & the Creeps, taken from the upcoming album, ‘Going, Going, Going, Gone: The Rare Recordings of Connie Cunningham and the Creeps Vol. 1.,’ out via Earth Libraries.
Nick Kinsey has proven to be a seasoned and prolific musician, appearing on Waxhatchee’s St. Cloud, touring with Kevin Morby, and drumming for AC Newman, Hand Habits, and Cold War Kids. After moving to upstate New York and with these various styles and ideas floating around his head, he began working on a new project.
“I needed to create a fictional character to get into the headspace necessary to finish this group of songs,” Kinsey says.“ I was able to escape my usual writing blocks and get away from any need to sound “cool” by pretending I was this fictional weirdo and failed session musician.”
Multi-instrumentalist Josh Kaufman also contributed to Waxahatchee’s record, and here adds additional guitar, keyboard, and percussion. Kaufman also hosted sessions in his Brooklyn studio for a few days, after the majority of the record was completed in Kinsey’s own Chicken Shack studio. With the contributions of trumpeter Mike Irwin, guitarist Oliver Hill, and Celeste player Jared Samuel rounding out the tracks, the min orchestra provided the robust backing needed to make the dream of the Connie Cunningham persona a reality.
And though this album feels like a remarkably complete universe for a debut, the winking insistence of the ‘Vol. 1’ in the title shows just how much more is in store for Connie Cunningham. “I really love the unfinished quality of archival, bootleg, and outtake releases, so I wanted to borrow that language a little,” Kinsey smiles. And with ‘Vol. 2’ already lurking somewhere up in the proverbial attic, that unfinished world will only continue to grow and expand in its mystic yet familiar depth.
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