Stream: Send Medicine, ‘Corduroy’

Daiana Feuer on June 25th, 2018

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“Corduroy” announces the July 27 release of Send Medicine’s second full-length, “Mermaids on the Verandah” (on Honey House Records), the follow-up to 2016’s “Scary Aquarius Daughter.” Alongside “She Believes In The Devil,” a single the band put out last summer, the album features eight new tracks recorded by Mark Rains at Echo Park’s Station House and the “second phase” of the band, which includes singer/guitarist Julian Hacquebard, bassist Aaron Stern, percussionist Lauren Grimaldi and multi-instrumentalist Ryan Glennan, joined by drummer Curran McDowell and guitarist Davey Donaldson. Things have come a long way since Hacquebard formed Send Medicine in Toronto during 2011 as a freak-folk act comprised of guitar, flute and drums. Still freaky but decisively progressing into more lounge pop territory, “Corduroy” is washed in that warm, stoney, endless-summer glow that comes from spending this much time in California. They call it “baggy-delic-folk.”

“Corduroy” was written during the “overwhelming confusion” of the 2016 presidential election. The band says it deals with “a lot of other ideas that go hand in hand with confusion — chasing the muse, memories of teenage-hood, the death of a parent, the feelings of an autumn evening, its like a dream of your prom night half remembered-a hundred years later.”

||| Stream: “Corduroy”