Family Art Club are set to release their homesick new track ‘How long will winter last this year?’ on 1st Sept via cult Leeds label Private Regcords.
Family Art Club are thinking of England with this track. Sounding like a softer, more sentimental Black Country, New Road amidst layered saxophones and gentle strums, they think of currants and mountaintops, of grief and going back home, of tomorrow. It’s pastoral and peaceful, but, true to Family Art Club form, there’s a feeling of sorrow too.
Guitarist and vocalist Evan Usher describes the new single as “emotionally very close” to their previous offering ‘Bird Watching Accident’, despite the difference sonically. “I was very far from home when I began to write it. I had some intense spells of homesickness and I was holding a lot of nostalgia and sentimentality. I was seeing a lot of change in me and in the world and I had quite a strong sense of loss about it all. The song is a picture of the homeland I hold in my heart and the sadness that I carry with me that comes from loving a changing thing.”
The second single reasserts Family Art Club as one of the burgeoning Leeds scene’s cosier exports, for fans of Westside Cowboy, cats on the street and a sturdy pair of boots. The single also acts as the second single from the band’s forthcoming sophomore EP, Pigeons When I’m King, which is set to arrive on 15th September via Private Regcords.
Evan Usher: “We’re really proud of Pigeons When I’m King because we put a lot of ourselves into it. I think we really got to know each other making it. For me, it’s about growing up and learning to love the world, but I think it means something different to each of us. When I hear the songs now I just hear all the love we gave them and the things we learned about music, ourselves and each other in the process.”
About Family Art Club
Family Art Club have been described as the most wholesome indie-rock band of all time. Their shows have a home-baked feel, straight out of the living room oven. They like their music colourful and joyful and a bit melancholic, sometimes silly and sometimes earnest.
Taking lyrical inspiration from the ramblings of Neutral Milk Hotel and Laurie Lee and fusing it with their love for the musical worlds of Pavement and Jeff Buckley, Family Art Club’s folky-jazzy-emo musings find them muddling through life and how to make sense of it.
With previous support slots alongside Casual Smart, Truthpaste and Surf Trash, the band are set to release their sophomore EP Pigeons When I’m King via cult Leeds label Private Regcords on 15 September.
