Stream: GospelbeacH, ‘Dark Angel’
Kevin Bronson on
1
GospelbeacH continues to drink from the seemingly bottomless vessel of cosmic Americana that artists such as Gram Parsons first laid on the table. In fact, the L.A. country-rock band headed up by singer-songwriter Brent Rademaker is guzzling from it.
“Let It Burn,” coming Oct. 4, will be GospelbeacH’s fourth album since their 2015 debut. It comes less than a year after “Another Winter Alive” and finds Rademaker (Beachwood Sparks, the Tyde, Further) teaming up with Trevor Beld Jimenez (Parting Lines/Tall Tales and the Silver Lining) to pen the songs.
Their spin on the Laurel Canyon sound is the work of veteran hands. Neal Casal (Rademaker’s onetime bandmate in Beachwood Sparks and currently guitarist in the Chris Robinson Brotherhood) is back, and the lineup boasts Jonny Niemann on keys, Ben Reddel on bass, Beld Jimenez on drums and Nelson Bragg on backing vocals.
The new album’s first single is “Dark Angel.” Rademaker told Billboard, where the song premiered, “[The song] says everything about what’s going on with me. It’s not so much about a person as it is a dark feeling. And it’s more about letting all those things go, getting rid of the dark feelings and those negative emotions. In the past I’ve been notorious for handling bad news really shitty. So when I was writing for this (album) and some truly bad things happened — my father dying, the lady I loved leaving me — I said, ‘I’m gonna handle this the right way,’ and I was really proud of myself. I kept it really mellow. I had some anger and some hurt, but I didn’t want to put that on tape in the same way I might have before.”
||| Stream: “Dark Angel”
||| Live: GospelbeacH opens for the Mother Hips on Nov. 2 at Pappy & Harriet’s. Tickets.
||| Previously: “Runnin’ Blind,” “You’re Already Home,” “Sunshine Skyway”
[…] Around the Sun with Adam MacDougall, Dan Horne and Mark Levy in 2015 and was a key player in GospelbeacH with Brent Rademaker, with whom Casal had played in Beachwood Sparks and the […]