The Rosebuds share a new song, announce LP

The Rosebuds share a new song, announce 'Sand + Silence' out 8/5 on Western Vinyl, the Rosebuds play their next show July 31st in Atlanta, Ga

After spending two years on opposite coasts and pursuing their own creative projects, Ivan Howard and Kelly Crisp are ready to release The Rosebuds’ sixth full-length album, Sand + Silence – out August 5th on Western Vinyl. the leading single “In My Teeth” today claiming it a “sweet bit of songcraft”.

Joining up with Bon Iver frontman Justin Vernon (a friend and former bandmate who, in a 2011 interview, noted that The Rosebuds make “some of the most important music in the world”), the North Carolina-bred duo spent a week in Vernon’s studio teasing out a batch of songs that effortlessly weave the hooky songcraft of classic jangle-pop, the cagey romanticism of new wave, and a refined yet full-hearted sensibility all their own. Featuring Vernon on guitar and synths-as well as Bon Iver drummer Matt McCaughan and Sylvan Esso’s Nick Sanborn on bass, both longtime pals and cohorts of The Rosebuds-the resulting Sand + Silence radiates both a graceful intensity and the loose, joyful energy that comes from making music with friends.

The Rosebuds

Sand + Silence

Western Vinyl

August 5th, 2014

1 – In My Teeth

2 – Sand + Silence

3 – Give Me A Reason

4 – Blue Eyes

5 – Mine Mine Mine

6 – Wait A Minute

7 – Esse Quam Videri

8 – Death Of An Old Bike

9 – Looking For

10 – Walking

11 – Tiny Bones

Co-produced by The Rosebuds, Justin Vernon, and BJ Burton, Sand + Silence began when Howard (who had recently launched a solo project under the name Howard Ivans) came to New York in early 2013 to work with Crisp (who had newly entered Columbia University’s graduate program for fiction writing). While their original intention was to revamp a number of songs cut from Loud Planes Fly Low and turn those tracks into an EP, Howard ended up sitting down at a piano in the studio and sketching out a whole new series of songs. “I decided to quit trying to force the older songs into something that worked for us, and instead write some new ideas and just see what happened without any pretense,” he says. “Right away it just felt really good and sounded like a new Rosebuds record to me-the tone and melodies reminded me of the lightness of the early Rosebuds days, with this feeling of the music being new and inspiring but still so simple that almost anybody could play it.” Once they settled into Vernon’s April Base Studio in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, The Rosebuds devoted a week to bringing those new songs to life by recording live (a previously unexplored tactic for the band). “Everyone in the room we were working with is such a great musician, so we’d hit record and the whole thing would just sail,” says Crisp. “Everything would get done in just one or two takes, and the songs all ended up having this buoyancy to them.”

The Rosebuds Live Dates:

7/31: The Earl – Atlanta, GA

8/1: Boujie Nights – Wilmington, NC

8/2: Cat’s Cradle – Carrboro, NC

8/6: DC9 – Washington, DC

8/7: Boot and Saddle – Philadelphia, PA

8/8: Rough Trade – Brooklyn, New York

8/9: Café 939 – Boston, MA

8/21: Media Club – Vancouver, BC

8/22: Tractor Tavern – Seattle, WA

8/23: Bunk Bar – Portland, OR

8/26: Independent – San Francisco, CA