Ahead of the release of their new album, Carriers shares the title track to Every Time I Feel Afraid, the project of Curt Kiser’s debut for Brassland (This Is The Kit, Bartees Strange) arrives May 2nd. Carriers has opened up for the likes of Big Thief and Damien Jurado and, in summer 2024, nabbed opening slots on tours with Band Of Horses and Fruit Bats. Sharon Van Etten even listed Carriers in the “Recommended Listening” section of the liner notes for her 2019 LP Remind Me Tomorrow.

The album’s title track is the heart of the project, one that reckons with the realities and hardships of a life spent running down a dream. “It’s a kind of mantra I used to get through a really hard week,” Kiser explains. “While driving, my partner and I were hit by a drunk driver, then assaulted by the guy who hit us. A few days later my van got robbed in Chicago while I was on a short run of shows between Ohio and Illinois. We borrowed some gear, got through the gig, and I returned home. My laptop was one of the things stolen, so I knocked out the song on an old Fostex multi-track borrowed from a friend.”

“Every Time I Feel Afraid” follows recent single “Blurry Eyes,” featuring contributions from Bryan Devendorf (The National), Dave Hartley (The War On Drugs), Ben Lanz (Beirut, The National, Sufjan Stevens), and Peter Katis (Interpol, The National, Glenn Hansard, Gaslight Anthem). It also comes after Carriers’ contribution to Love Los Angeles: A Charity Compilation in Aid of the 2025 Los Angeles Wildfires Benefiting the Mutual Aid LA Network by Hit the North Records, with an original song (not on the new record) titled “Good Dreaming.”

It’s the result of Kiser’s dedicated songwriting practice. As he explains: “When I was 19 years old, I looked to the heaven’s and asked what I should do with my life. I grabbed the old 1950s Goya guitar which was passed down to me from my great Uncle Andy, sat on my porch in Cinci’s Camp Washington neighborhood and proceeded to write one of the first songs I’d ever written on my own. From that point on, I’ve never stopped writing. It’s my therapy.”

Carriers
Every Time I Feel Afraid
Tracklist
Brassland

In My Head
Motion
Sometimes
Blurry Eyes
Every Time I Feel Afraid
Share Some Wine
Mixed Emotions
Every Time The Sun Comes Up (Sharon Van Etten cover)
Be The One

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