Blitzen Trapper Announce New Album 'Wild & Reckless'; Watch Video for 'Rebel'
By: Caryn Robbins Sep. 07, 2017
Earlier this year, the Portland, OR-based Blitzen Trapper accomplished a unique feat for a rock band who has been releasing albums and touring for the better part of two decades: a staged musical titled Wild & Reckless that ran for 28 performances at Portland Center Stage. Today, the band is announcing a new album of the same title that was born from the stage production and as a companion to their 2008 breakthrough album Furr.
Today, Entertainment Weekly premiered "Rebel," the first single to be released from the forthcoming album.
Watch the video for "Rebel" via YouTube:
"'Rebel' is a song about a guy who for the love of a girl follows in his father's footsteps only to find it to be a scam," explains principal and frontman Eric Earley. "After several tries at the American dream he ends up selling cocaine to blue bloods in the Hollywood hills. Something of a lost Raymond Carver story with shambling near-country soundtrack."
The album Wild & Reckless was born from the stage production that the band spent the better part of a year producing. The half musical, half rock-opera dealt with heroin abuse, desperation, true love and western power structures. The story evoked a bygone era of Portland with this sci-fi love story, featuring a rock-and-roll score that paired unreleased songs with favorites from the band's catalog.
Following the success of the production, the band took 7 original songs from the production and developed the theme further into the 12 songs that comprise the new album Wild & Reckless.
Frontman Eric Earley also sees the record as a companion and extention of their 2008 album Furr. "Wild and Reckless is something like a cross-eyed stepchild to Furr, in that it chronicles the darker dystopian stories of rural and suburban west coast death-drive via a riffing psychedelic landscape. Ten years after Furr with all its talk of murder and the end of the western world, it seems there's more to tell."
Blitzen Trapper is Eric Earley (songwriter/singer), Erik Menteer (guitar, keyboard), Brian Adrian Koch (drums, vocals), Michael Van Pelt (bass) and Marty Marquis(keyboard, vocals). Wild & Reckless was produced by Eric Earley and Michael Van Pelt and was recorded by Gregg Williams at the Trench, in Portland, OR. It was mixed by James Brown (Foo Fighters, Kings Of Leon, Blitzen Trapper's All Across This Land) at The Union.
The band will embark on a national tour with select support from Lilly Hiatt this winter to celebrate the release of the album. Find a full list of tour dates below.
Wild & Reckless tracklist:
1) Rebel
2) Wild & Reckless
3) Forever Pt. 1
4) Joanna
5) No Man's Land
6) Stolen Hearts
7) Dance With Me
8) Love Live On
9) When I'm Dying
10) Baby Won't You Turn Me On
11) Forever Pt. 2
12) Wind Don't Always Blow
Tour Dates:
11/2: Atlanta, GA - The Earl - TICKETS
11/3: Durham, NC - Motorco Music Hall - TICKETS #
11/4: Richmond, VA- The Broadberry - TICKETS #
11/6: Philadelphia, PA - Johnny Brenda's - TICKETS #
11/7: Cambridge, MA - The Sinclairs - TICKETS #
11/9: Brooklyn, NY - Music Hall of Williamsburg - TICKETS #
11/10: Toronto, ON - Horseshoe Tavern - TICKETS #
11/11: Detroit, MI - El Club - TICKETS #
11/12: Chicago, IL - Lincoln Hall - TICKETS
11/15: Milwaukee, WI - Turner Hall - TICKETS #
11/18: St. Louis, MO - Blueberry Hill Duck Room - TICKETS
11/19: Nashville, TN - Exit/In - TICKETS #
11/30: Santa Cruz, CA - Moe's Alley - TICKETS #
12/2: San Diego, CA - Casbah - TICKETS #
12/4: Mill Valley, CA - Sweetwater Music Hall - TICKETS #
12/5: San Francisco, CA - The Independent - TICKETS #
12/7: Seattle, WA - Tractor Tavern - TICKETS #
12/8: Portland, OR - Revolution Hall - TICKETS #
# - support from Lilly Hiatt
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