Ears Wide Open: Their Wedding

Kevin Bronson on February 12th, 2015

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SoCal trio Their Wedding grew from the ashes of Inland Empire indie-rockers the Motel Life, who disbanded in 2012 after releasing two EPs and a full-length. In their new guise, singer-pianist Michael Escanuelas, guitarist Al Hernandez and bassist-vocalist Celese Hernandez are in the middle of an EP trilogy — the second, “Wine,” is out as the follow-up to last year’s “Take” via L.A.-based True Grit Records. More piano-derived than their previous band’s songs, Their Wedding’s material offers an alternately meditative and angsty take on the time-honored themes of love and isolation. The single “I Tried to Leave You” begins as a plaintive ballad until the 1:49 mark, when it explodes with emotive bombast, with the blows then softened by a Celese Hernandez-sung refrain. It’s virtually three songs in one, and indicative of the sonic ground the trio is covering in their trilogy.

||| Download: “I Tried to Leave You”