Carbon Leaf, the acclaimed rock band recognized for his or her distinctive mix of people, Americana, and rock influences, is overjoyed to announce the approaching liberate in their new album, Time Is The Playground, out September twenty seventh. Recorded on the band’s personal Two-Automotive Studio, the 12-song assortment is each a choice to motion and an embody of the instant. Marrying nostalgic storytelling with nuanced, folk-infused indie rock, the album unearths the Richmond, Virginia band embroidering heartfelt melody and unity with acoustic and electrical instrumentation. The outcome is a smart rumination on time, love and private expansion that’s equivalent portions pressing epiphany and contented exhalation. Pre-orders/Pre-saves for Time Is The Playground, will release this Tuesday, August 6, HERE.
Masterfully melding saturated AC/DC guitar and squelchy Automobiles synth, the album’s lead unmarried “Backmask 1983” is a a laugh flipbook of evocative generation trademarks – Farrah Fawcett, “Satanic Panic,” Time Lifestyles Books, Bigfoot, and extra – that traverses the simultaneous nexus of frontman Barry Privett’s youth/formative years and the sector’s analog/virtual ages. “With out a variety of knowledge, the thriller of items felt so heightened,” recalled Privett of rising up pre-Web. “I sought after to seize a few of that but in addition have a laugh with it.”
The tune captures the essence of the ones adolescence, mixing wistful nostalgia with a way of surprise and discovery. “It’s about embracing now not simply the thriller, however the need, the will, the wish to nonetheless consider – one thing that may get more difficult and more difficult as one ages,” Privett continues. “‘Backmask 1983’ straddles that global in between, the place you wish to have to stay grasp of the ones items that made you who you might be, however you even have those new unfamiliar forces you wish to have to embody. This tune used to be Carbon Leaf’s approach of articulating a few of that crossover.”‘Time Is The Playground’ is Carbon Leaf’s first full-length album in a decade, all the way through which they launched two EPs and a 27-song are living efficiency album and Blu-ray. This album bridges previous and provide, that includes each rediscovered musical fragments from the closing 15 years and logo new subject material. Privett dusted off outdated demos and close himself away for months to complete their tales whilst additionally honing fresh compositions. With Clark engineering, Carbon Leaf – finished by way of founding member Carter Gravatt, longtime bassist Jon Markel and drummer Jesse Humphrey – spent a 12 months and a part recording and combining the ensuing songs.

Firstly shaped as a school duvet band in 1992 and with over 3,500 famously enthused are living presentations in combination, Carbon Leaf helped to outline the aughts indie rock that they in the end outgrew and outlasted. They first earned nationwide popularity with “The Boxer,” a tune that gained the American Tune Awards 2002 New Tune Award and made Carbon Leaf the primary unsigned band to accomplish earlier than hundreds of thousands at the AMAs.
Carbon Leaf’s occupation has been marked by way of their skill to adapt whilst staying true to their roots. After freeing a trio of charting albums for Leading edge Data, and enhance slots for the likes of Jason Mraz, John Mayer, and Dave Matthews Band, the gang returned to their indie origins. This spirit of independence is clear in ‘Time Is The Playground,’ a end result of tune concepts spanning 15 years along new subject material, all recorded and blended within the band’s personal studio.
‘Time Is The Playground’ will likely be accompanied by way of the tireless traveling virtually synonymous with Carbon Leaf, who’ve change into a fashion for self-managing bands within the virtual panorama. Kicking off in St Louis, MO, on Wednesday, September twenty fifth, the U.S. excursion will make stops in primary towns, together with Austin, Seattle, Denver, Chicago, Boston, and NYC, earlier than concluding in Richmond, VA, the band’s homeland, on Saturday, December 18th. For more info and to buy tickets, please seek advice from carbonleaf.com.
‘Time Is The Playground’
Time Is The Playground
Backmask 1983
You And Me
Love For Sale
Me And Mick
Monday Evening In Germantown
Town By way of The Sea
Name Forward
Catching Windmill
California Gold
Pretending
Neon Indicators
Carbon Leaf – Excursion Dates
Friday, July twenty sixth – Baltimore, MD – Union Craft Brewing
Saturday, August thirty first – Sunday, September 1st – Entrance Royal, VA – Appaloosa Pageant 2024
Wednesday, September twenty fifth – St. Louis, MO – Town Vineyard St. Louis
Thursday, September twenty sixth – Wichita, KS – Wave
Friday, September twenty seventh – Dallas, TX – Timber
Saturday, September twenty eighth – Austin, TX – 3TEN Austin Town Limits Are living
Monday, September thirtieth – Phoenix, AZ – Musical Tool Museum
Tuesday, October 1st – San Diego, CA – Casbah
Wednesday, October second – West Hollywood, CA – The Peppermint Membership
Thursday, October third – Mill Valley, CA – Sweetwater Tune Corridor
Friday, October 4th – Portland, OR – The Get Down Tune Venue
Saturday, October fifth – Seattle, WA – The Crocodile – Madame Lou’s
Sunday, October sixth – Seattle, WA – The Triple Door (5:00 PM Early Display)
Sunday, October sixth – Seattle, WA – The Triple Door (8:00 PM Overdue Display)
Tuesday, October eighth – Spokane, WA – The District at Knitting Manufacturing unit
Wednesday, October ninth – Boise, ID – Neurolux Living room
Thursday, October tenth – Salt Lake Town, UT – The State Room
Friday, October eleventh – Denver, CO – Bluebird Theater
Saturday, October twelfth – Kansas Town, MO – Knuckleheads
Sunday, October thirteenth – Omaha, NE – Ready Room Living room
Monday, October 14th – Minneapolis, MN – Varsity Theater
Tuesday, October fifteenth – Milwaukee, WI – Vivarium
Wednesday, October sixteenth – Grand Rapids, MI – The Midtown GR
Thursday, October seventeenth – Chicago, IL – Town Vineyard Chicago
Friday, October 18th – Indianapolis, IN – Hello-Fi
Saturday, October nineteenth – Ann Arbor, MI – The Ark
Sunday, October twentieth – Cleveland, OH – Tune Field Supper Membership
Friday, November eighth – New York, NY – Racket NYC
Saturday, November ninth – Cambridge, MA – The Sinclair
Friday, November fifteenth – Portland, ME – Portland Area Of Tune and Occasions (HOME)
Saturday, November sixteenth – South Burlington, VT – Upper Floor
February second – ninth, 2025 – Sarasota County, FL – String Destroy Cruise: Tune Pageant at Sea 2025
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