The Hard Quartet have shared a brand new track, “Our Hometown Boy.” It’s the third single from the self-titled debut of the new band comprising Pavement’s Stephen Malkmus with Chavez’s Matt Sweeney, Dirty Three’s Jim White, and the Cairo Gang’s Emmett Kelly—the final of whom takes lead vocals on the observe. Watch the brand new track’s video beneath.
Sweeney mentioned, in a press launch, that the track “reveals why Jim White, Steve Malkmus, and I are so stoked to be in a band with Emmett Kelly. It’s, like, fucked up how good Emmett is at music.”
Kelly added, “In ‘Our Hometown Boy,’ the Arduous Quartet mythologizes the fierce inhabitants of our shared hovels and shangri-las from the vantage level of a seashore well-known for the undertow. A dialog about what paradise appears like peering out the window of a bar to a blizzard. Adventures within the pores and skin commerce. On the run and hitting the highway. The inexperienced grass of dwelling.”
“Our Hometown Boy” follows debut single “Earth Hater” and the Sweeney-led “Rio’s Tune,” which got here with a Rolling Stones–homage music video stuffed with Easter Eggs.
The Arduous Quartet is out October 4, on Matador, and the band performs its first reveals the next week.
