Stream: The Growlers, ‘City Club’

Kevin Bronson on September 1st, 2016

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Julian Casablancas says “The Growlers may be the most interesting band in the world,” and while that might not get the Orange County quintet a gig repping a “stay-thirsty” beer brand (although that’d be cool), it got them a deal with the label founded by the Strokes lead singer, Cult Records. The label will release the Growlers’ new album ‘City Club” on Sept. 30. Produced by Casablancas and Grammy Award-winning Shawn Everett (Alabama Shakes), it will be the sixth full-length since 2009 from the Growlers, purveyors of “Beach Goth” (their “genre”) and founders of Beach Goth (the festival) and a band who have built their cult brick by brick with a punk aesthetic, winking irreverence and a healthy disregard for whatever might be sonically fashionable. The album was made in Everett’s downtown L.A. studio, which inspired not on the album title but the nifty cover art. If the woozy disco of “City Club’s” title track doesn’t win you over, the album has plenty more on the smorgasbord. “I was really into Afrofunk when we made this record,” says frontman Brooks Nielsen, “and a lot of English ’70s punk I listened to as a kid, particularly when Jamaica was mixing in with all the punk kids.” Stay interested, my friends.

||| Stream: “City Club”