Daiana Feuer on October 12th, 2015

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The Echo and the Sound is a two‐piece L.A. rock band formed in 2012 by singer-guitarist Brian Rich and drummer Douglas Jewell. Describing their sound as “gothic cantina,” they like it raw, bluesy, and a little dark. In their fantasy world “Bob Dylan and Sam Shepard got into a fist fight while drinking in a desert cantina,” and the jukebox plays The Echo and the Sound. Speaking of bars, their new song, “Virginia Law,” was inspired by a night of drinking and damning the man for always kicking the good guys down. It was the summer of 2014, after a “sweltering night of hard drinking,” at a bar in downtown L​.​A​.​ with an old friend from ​back in the South, says Rich. “This old friend and I ​​ruminated over the unjust systems sinking their teeth into our peasant lives, and, s​t​retching​ out every last cent for another ​measly consolatory ​drink, the phrase ‘Virginia Law’ resulted.” The next morning, likely weighed down by a formidable hangover, Rich wrote a song for people who​ feel ​an​ urgency to grab a suitcase and ​take off. He says, “Sometimes life can make you feel cornered. Sometimes ​you just can’t escape the reality of being trapped in a tidy mess. Sometimes you have to grind it out day by day. And sometimes you find a way to ​pull yourself up by the bootstraps​,​ and kick​ ‘​​​​em in the teeth.” The song appears on the band’s new self-released double-EP, “Buffalo Mouth,” recorded on analog by Mark Rains (Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Neon Trees) at Station House Studios. Available Oct. 27, the album features eight new tunes and four songs from an EP they released last year called “Its Execution.”

||| Stream: “Virginia Law”