Halfway through, the song moves to half time as De Wilde and band explore Black Sabbath-esque doom. “I’ve got ants on the chair - they bite like a bear!” She’s got them in her home, in her bones, when she’s eating, when she’s dreaming, when she won’t and when don’t. While constrained, Arrow bemoans the titular insects, which seem to have consumed not just her pants but her entire being. Her confidence in front of the camera stands to reason: She is the daughter of the renowned Los Angeles rock photographer Autumn de Wilde and the granddaughter of West Coast hippie chronicler Jerry de Wilde. Led through the crowd of Echo Park rock club the Echo in a straitjacket, the gangly singer has a natural ease onstage, and conveys crazy charisma and energy across the two-minute song. Too, Vince Gill helps out on a version of Roger Miller’s “Am I All Alone (Or Is It Only Me).” “Going where the water’s clear and the air is cleaner/ Than the California Coast.”Įlsewhere on the album, Campbell offers last takes on classics of American song including Bob Dylan’s “Don’t Think Twice It’s Alright,” Dickey Lee’s country weeper “She Thinks I Still Care” and “Funny How Time Slips Away,” on which the singer duets with its writer, Willie Nelson. “Going up north where the hills are winter green/ I got to leave you on the California Coast,” he sings. It’s the last song on the album, which comes out June 9, and Campbell delivers it with impressive emotional depth. Penned by seminal Los Angeles songwriter Jimmy Webb, whose “Wichita Lineman” and “By the Time I Get to Phoenix” Campbell propelled onto the charts, “Adios” is a bittersweet goodbye. Now in the advanced stages of Alzheimer’s disease, the longtime Angeleno says farewell in the title track to his final album. I was fascinated with the fact that there is a whole other world happening right under our feet.”Ĭash adds: “Arrow and I hadn’t even talked about it yet, but I’d already written something about the same thing-about how these people’s eyes adapt to pitch-blackness, and they end up going crazy from never seeing the sunlight.Glen Campbell, “Adios” (Universal Music). Of “Bet My Brains,” de Wilde had this to say: “That song came from thinking about the tunnel people in New York and Vegas and the Catacombs in France, and the underground village of people who live in the sewers of the L.A. I always want there to be a dramatic response,” says de Wilde in a press release. “With this album, I want people to put it on and feel excited, and hopefully get goosebumps. Nick Launay (Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, L7) produced the album, which was recorded at Sunset Studios. Devour You is the follow-up to the band’s self-titled debut. Starcrawler consists of vocalist Arrow de Wilde (daughter of music photographer Autumn de Wilde, who took the band’s press photos), guitarist/vocalist Henri Cash, bassist Tim Franco, and drummer Austin Smith. Check out the Jellyclaw-directed “Bet My Brains” video below, followed by the album’s tracklist and cover art, as well as the band’s upcoming tour dates. Devour You is due out October 11 via Rough Trade. They have also announced some tour dates. Los Angeles quartet Starcrawler have announced a new album, Devour You, and shared its first single, “Bet My Brains,” via a video for the track.
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