Album Stream: Blitzen Trapper - American Goldwing
Only a year after releasing Destroyer of the Void, Blitzen Trapper is back with a new album. American Goldwing is a slight step away from their “usual space-aging technology and pawn shop Casio aplomb,” as band member Eric Earley put it. The album moves, “into the sounds we grew up with, the hard guitar rock and country picking of our younger years,” said Earley. Acoustic plucking and harmonica take the driver’s seat in this album, but mesh well with the previous Blitzen Trapper sound. “It’s me trying to evoke a true American nostalgia,” Earley explains.
Earley explains on the band’s bio page on their current label Sub Pop’s website that when he was a kid, his brother had a Honda Goldwing motorcycle. One day he hopped on the bike pretending he was, “racing along some lonely road.” The bike tipped over and pinned his leg. Earley said, “Writing American Goldwing felt much like that, like being pinned beneath a giant motorcycle, and its vision is that inescapable past, those feelings of being trapped in a small town, that fine line between the rural and the suburban settings that define much of America, that line between love and loss that occurs when you find yourself ‘taking it easy too long / sticking around this lonesome town.’”
While American Goldwing comes out on Sept. 13, you can listen to the entire record below for the next two weeks.
Dates:
October
7 – Petaluma, Calif. @ Mystic Theater
8 - Santa Barbara, Calif. @ SOHO
9 – San Diego, Calif. @ Belly Up
10 – Phoenix, Ariz. @ Crescent Ballroom
11 – Santa Fe, N.M. @ Santa Fe Sol Live
13 – Dallas, Texas @ Club Dada
15 – Baton Rouge, La. @ Manship Theater
18 – Atlanta, Ga. @ Variety Playhouse
19 – Nashville, Tenn. @ Mercy Lounge
20 – Louisville Ky. @ Headliner’s
21 – Asheville, N.C. @ Orange Peel
22 – Carborro, N.C. @ Cat’s Cradle
24 – Washington D.C. @ Black Cat
26 – New York, N.Y. @ Webster Hall
27 – Philadelphia, Pa. @ Theater of Living Arts
28 – Boston, Mass. @ Royale
30 – Toronto, ON @ Opera House
November
1 – Cleveland, Ohio @ Beachland Ballroom
2 – Grand Rapids, Mich. @ Calvin College
3 - Chicago, Ill. @ The Metro
4 – Minneapolis, Minn. @ First Avenue
5 – Milwaukee, Wis. @ Turner Hall
7 – Boulder, Colo. @ Fox Theater
10 – Vancouver, BC @ Rickshaw Theater
11 – Seattle, Wash. @ The Neptune
13 – Eugene, Ore. @ McDonald Theater
15 – San Francisco, Calif. @ The Fillmore
