It’s there that they laid down “ Our December”, along with a peach of a single called “ Lemon Trees”, and as a matter of fact, a whole goddamn record too… On 28th January 2022, Drug Couple will release ‘Stoned Weekend’. In a two-hundred-year-old barn set amongst the rolling pastures of the grounds they now called home, they built a studio and named it “Freelandia”. ![]() Two weeks later they found themselves unemployed, in the middle of the woods, with a whole lot of time on their hands. They left NYC on Friday, March 13th, 2020 for a wedding planning weekend in the sticks. They got married, grow marijuana, like country and American indie rock, and don’t particularly miss the city. The mix was informed by Sonic Youth’s ‘Dirty’….which is definitely NOT the best Sonic Youth album.”ĭrug Couple is Miles and Becca Robinson. They used to be a “Brooklyn band”, until they moved to the Vermont countryside. “Classic 80’s/early 90’s indie-rock with a little distorted organ added for our obligatory Yo La Tengo nod. “After doing our last few projects piecemeal in the studio we were excited to track some rockers straight to tape in the barn and that’s what this one is.” says Becca. “Our December is a rather ambivalent meditation on the end of any number of things….Of a prime, a relationship, the world.”Ĭoated in the kind of gritty, lo-fi fuzz you’d expect to find on a classic Wedding Present or Dinosaur Jr cut, rather than the insipid jingle-bell jangle that most other Christmas records will be opting for this month Drug Couple shirk the seasonal schmaltz to send 2021 packing with a rousing slacker-rock anthem for the end of days. “ Our December” is the latest single from DRUG COUPLE. A record that invites you into their kind of December.Ī single that blows smoke rings right through the festive season, “Our December” finds Vermont’s most laid-back duo bidding a lively, if lethargic, farewell to just another year we’d probably all rather forget. The constant ring, ring, ring of sleigh bells across the radio waves… Or not. ![]() RELEASED 28 JANUARY 2022, VIA PAPERCUPMUSICĭecember.
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