Courtesy: Blue Elan Records
Soul Asylum will release its next record this fall.
The band is scheduled to release its new digital EP Born Free Oct. 16 through Blue Elan Records. The record featured acoustic re-imaginings of songs from the band’s latest album Hurry Up and Wait. The album was released April 17 through Blue Elan Records.
The songs featured in the forthcoming recording were produced shortly after the release of Hurry Up and Wait while front man Dave Pirner and his band mates were forced to stay indoors due to the “safer at home” orders passed nationwide. Pirner and Soul Asylum guitarist Ryan Smith’s streaming quarantine sessions, which took place live from Pirner’s living room, were what led to the creation of the acoustic takes.
One of the acoustic takes featured in the forthcoming EP, ‘If I Told You‘ is streaming now.
Pirner talked about the creative process in a recent interview.
“After I get the main idea for the song and have roughly figured out how to play it I show it to Ryan and then we play it together,” he said. “So, in a way, this is kind of showing how the songs were before we added the rhythm section. It’s fun to cut live in the studio; there’s no going back and you can’t fix it. It’s unembellished, therefore hopefully interesting.”
In other news, Pirner and Smith are scheduled to perform live at 9 p.m. ET tonight on American Songwriter’s Instagram. Additionally, the band will take part in this year’s rescheduled Record Store Day, which is scheduled to take place Oct. 24.
The band will re-issue Hurry Up And Wait on a 2LP vinyl set with bonus 7-inch vinyl that features two previously unreleased songs — a cover of the timeless country song ‘Rhinestone Cowboy’ and an acoustic take of the band’s hit song ‘We 3.’ That song originally appeared on the band’s 1990 album And The Horse They Rode In On, and then later on the soundtrack for the 1997 movie Chasing Amy.
More information on Soul Asylum’s new album, tour and more is available online now along with all of the band’s latest news and more at:
Website: http://www.soulasylum.com
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/SoulAsylum
Twitter: http://twitter.com/soulasylum
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