Tacoma, WA-based rock band Enumclaw return with the announcement of their debut album Save the Baby. Produced by Gabe Wax (Soccer Mommy, Adrianne Lenker, Fleet Foxes), the LP is set to release October 14th, 2022 on Luminelle Recordings. long with the announce, the band shares guitar-driven, emotive lead-single “Jimmy Neutron” with a powerful visual directed by John C. Peterson. Enumclaw will be supporting Toro y Moi and Illuminati Hotties this summer.

lead-singer Aramis Johnson shares: “This song is about getting so close to love that you can almost taste it. All the highs of being in love and how ridiculously unlike yourself it can make you act. All the day dreaming you do about what things could be and how they might go. There’s always a catch though and in this story as soon as you reach out to grab “love” and have it in your hands you drop it.”

“I wanna wake up brand new” Enumclaw lead-singer/guitarist Aramis Johnson sings to begin Save the Baby, their massive-sounding debut full-length, out October 14th via Luminelle Recordings. The album is a swing for greatness; a collection of life-affirming and deeply personal songs about the importance of chasing after your dreams.

Even though they hail from the home of grunge, their influences stretch a bit further; the group is already well on their way to becoming “the best band since Oasis,” their earliest motto. Aramis says the band led by the Gallagher brothers is a clear inspiration, given their rise from a working-class background, and not just because his own brother is in the group as well.

Says Aramis, “In the lineage of rock, Oasis is the last band to go from some random dive bar to a stadium. And if we’re not selling out stadiums, we’re not doing it how I wanted to do it.” The emotional stakes of being a massively popular rock band are incredibly clear for Enumclaw who came from a modest and sometimes harrowing upbringing in Seattle’s sister city, Tacoma.

Aramis describes Tacoma as an inescapable component of the band’s identity. “I honestly thought I was going to move to New York last April,” he says. “I was gonna take a break from doing music stuff, to live in a big city and try becoming a photographer. But the band [and its growing profile] ended up keeping me here in Tacoma.”

His father passed away from sickle cell anemia when he was just 10-years-old, his mother walked for miles to a job at Subway, and his family subsisted on food provided by EBT cards. His best friend when he was younger was diagnosed with schizophrenia. “I feel like if I were the one who had gotten sick, he would have handled it better than I did,” he says, the aforementioned survivor’s guilt heavy in his voice.

Those personal experiences heavily color Save the Baby, titled for the dreams he’s preserved since he was a young child to make a mark on the world. It’s an album about the importance of following your dreams, in spite of romantic relationships going sour and the pressure that comes with being a young Black man who grew up with a fair share of hardships. On the second verse of “Park Lodge,” Aramis sings about the survivor’s remorse of a friend’s mental health deteriorating as his own rock music stardom was on the ascent. “It’s about the feeling of being stuck in Tacoma,” he says. “Just like a lot of people in the Black community feel like they have to make it out through sports or rapping, I have to make it out with the band. I feel like this is our and the band’s only option to do something in a real way with our lives.”

Enumclaw is Aramis, guitarist Nathan Cornell, drummer Ladaniel Gipson, bassist (and Aramis’ younger brother) Eli Edwards. Working alongside producer Gabe Wax (Soccer Mommy, Crumb, Fleet Foxes).

Enumclaw
Save The Baby
Tracklisting

1. Save the Baby
2. 2002
3. Park Lodge
4. Blue Iris
5. Paranoid
6. Somewhere
7. Cowboy Bepop
8. Can’t Have It
9. Jimmy Neutron
10. 10th and J 2
11. Apartment

Enumclaw 2022 Tour Dates

07/19 – NYC @ Brooklyn Mirage ^
07/20 – Boston @ House of Blues ^
07/21 – Philly @ The Fillmore ^
07/23 – Seattle, WA @ Capitol Hill Block Party
08/27 – Port Townsend, WA @ THING
10/14 – Phoenix, AZ @ Valley Bar *
10/15 – Santa Fe, NM @Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery *
10/17 – Kansas City, MO @ recordBar *
10/18 – St. Louis, MO @ Blueberry Hill Duck Room *
10/21 – Baltimore, MD @ Ottobar *
10/22 – Brooklyn, NY @ Music Hall of Williamsburg *
10/23 – Cambridge, MA @ The Sinclair *
10/24 – Holyoke, MA @ Race Street Live *
10/26 – Toronto, ON @ Horseshoe Tavern *
10/27 – Detroit, MI @ El Club *
10/28 – Cleveland, OH @ Grog Shop *
10/29 – Chicago, IL @ Thalia Music Hall *
10/30 – Madison, WI @ High Noon Saloon *
10/31 – Minneapolis, MN @ Fine Line *
11/2 – Omaha, NE @ Reverb Lounge *
11/3 – Denver, CO @ Globe Hall *
11/4 – Denver, CO @ Globe Hall *
11/5 – Salt Lake City, UT @ Soundwell *
11/6 – Las Vegas, NV @ The Space *
11/8 – San Diego, CA @ Casbah *
11/10 – Los Angeles, CA @ Teragram Ballroom *
11/11 – Santa Cruz, CA @ Catalyst Atrium *
11/12 – San Francisco, CA @ August Hall *
11/13 – Sacramento, CA @ Goldfield Trading Post *
11/16 – Eugene, OR @ Sessions Music Hall *
11/17 – Portland, OR @ Wonder Ballroom *
11/18 – Vancouver, BC @ Biltmore Cabaret *

^ = supporting Toro y Moi
* = supporting Illuminati Hotties

pre-order Save The Baby by Enumclaw HERE