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Futurebirds is a touring band. The Athens, GA-based five-piece was on the road for months while looking for a label to release Baby Yaga in 2013, earning a reputation for playing chaotic live shows with the energy of primal, sweat-filled, cosmic rock revivals. After Fat Possum took notice and brought the band’s blend of country, rock, and psychedelia to a wide audience, the band kept going and cemented itself as a staple of the college towns of the South and the East Coast. It makes sense, then, that the group’s new album – out in September from Easy Sound – is called Hotel Parties. According to band member Carter King, Hotel Parties is “an on-the-road album for sure.”

Guitarist Thomas Johnson says, “The motif for the record is duality — the give and take of life, dreams vs. reality, loving vs. longing, wanting to grab life by the horns vs. needing to chill out, sleep vs. sanity… With a touring band, the home vs. road theme comes to the forefront daily.” Lead single “twentyseven” reflects that duality, serving listeners with a casual, catchy, and anthemic jangle that belies the song’s heavy and more-dissonant lyrical subject matter.

“[‘twentyseven’ is] a gleaming, Southern-fried late-twenties-crisis type of song… perfect for a drive through rural nowhere with your arm swaying out the window.”

-Stereogum

“The controlled chaos of Futurebirds’ live shows translates on record… You feel the energy, forgive any flubbed notes, and soak in the past-midnight revelry.”

-Pitchfork

RIYL: Dr. Dog, The War on Drugs, Real Estate, My Morning Jacket, Wilco, Drive By Truckers, R.E.M., Heartless Bastards, the Replacements, the Whigs

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Label: Easy Sound Recording Company