Smokey Brights have the right music for each child who’s ever confused grandma’s home with their precise house.
“It’s an intimate portrait of a childhood lived in transition,” says singer/guitarist Ryan Devlin, who wrote the incomparable indie outfit’s newest single, “Residence.”
Fronted by Devlin and spouse Kim West (vocals/keyboards), Smokey Brights have grow to be one thing of an off-kilter legend within the Seattle area—type of a Pacific Northwest variation on the Apples In Stereo, recognized for his or her artful resourcefulness and sweetly unhinged humorousness. To get producer by Andy D. Park (Deep Sea Diver, Pedro The Lion) on board for his or her newest LP, Dashboard Warmth, Devlin painted Park’s recording studio. And when the group isn’t busying itself with no matter else may fall in its laps—like recording the soundtrack for NPR’s Let The Youngsters Dance! podcast and touchdown 4 songs on the hit online game Pacific Drive—the quartet is touring the Northwest Coast and elsewhere.
As subversively foolish as it’s oddly tender, the video for “Residence” is the work of Seattle artist Jamie Henwood, who stars within the clip as nicely.
“It recounts a transfer to a brand new metropolis, the dread of arriving at a brand new faculty, the love and chaos of a full home, and the custody-exchange ceremony acquainted to youngsters of divorce,” says Devlin.
We’re proud to premiere Smokey Brights’ “Residence.” Search for Dashboard Warmth September 26 on Share It Music.
—Hobart Rowland
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