Daily Dose: Clementine Was Right, “There Are No More Almond Trees”
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Daily Dose is your daily source for the song you absolutely, positively need to hear every day. Curated by the Paste Music Team. Today’s installment features “There Are No More Almond Trees” by Clementine Was Right.
For the last few years, Denver band Clementine Was Right has steadily been touring the US and building up a name for themselves. Founded and led by vocalist, guitarist and poet Mike Young, the band has put out two albums since 2019: Lightning & Regret in 2020 and Can’t Get Right With The Darkness in 2022. Young’s band has only continued to grow over the last four years, now becoming a songwriting project for him and his partner and fellow poet Gion Davis.
Now, a new chapter is on the horizon for the eight-piece Clementine Was Right. With the release of their latest single, “There Are No More Almond Trees,” Young and co. deliver a mixture of Middle America twang, hook-heavy bootgaze and power-chord emo. As a follow-up to previous tracks “Takes Tall Walks” and “River Boys,” it’s clear that this direction of the band is one to keep a close eye on moving forward. “There Are No More Almond Trees” was inspired by recent California wildfires and finds Young musing on how that devastation can be found in he and his friends growing up and falling out of touch with one another. “We tumble down the spillway, hit this shindig feeling fucked,” he sings. “So, we shoot the sheriff’s billboard, make a blood pact with our thumbs.”
Listen to “There Are No More Almond Trees” below.