Kevin Bronson on April 14th, 2020

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The Airborne Toxic Event has released “Hollywood Park,” the title track to their forthcoming sixth album, and their first in five years.

At 6 1/2 minutes, it’s a sprawling, Boss-like anthem, with Mikel Jollett’s lyrics painting a picture of the time spent with his father at the now-demolished Hollywood Park racetrack. It’s kind of a musical Cliff’s Notes to the parts of Jollett’s book — “Hollywood Park: A Memoir” — about his difficult relationship with his father. “I wrote this song for him,” Jollett says. (He waxes philosophical on the song here.)

The release dates for both the album and the book have been pushed back because of the COVID-19 crisis. The album is now out May 22; the book published on May 26.

Jollett will do a virtual book tour for the memoir, kicking off May 1 with an event hosted by Book Soup.

||| Stream: “Hollywood Park”

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