Kevin Devine Signs With Razor & Tie, Talks New Album
Razor & Tie (NYC) has signed Brooklyn based singer-songwriter Kevin Devine.
Devine’s upcoming full-length album, Between the Concrete & Clouds, will be released on September 13, 2011 via Razor & Tie / Favorite Gentlemen. He will head out this fall on a headlining tour with The Features (out of Nashville) as direct support on its first leg.
Between The Concrete & Clouds is Devine’s first album made with a full backing band. Devine produced acoustic demos of the new songs in his rehearsal space after returning to Brooklyn from touring through most of 2009-10.
The album was then produced by longtime collaborator Chris Bracco, recorded in 10 days over the span of a month, and mixed by Rob Schnapf (Beck, Elliott Smith, Dr. Dog).
Stream the title track here:
“Between The Concrete and the Clouds” by Kevin Devine by Razor & Tie
The 10 track album features musicians Brian Bonz (keyboard), Chris Bracco (bass, keyboard), Mike Fadem (drums, percussion), Russell Smith (electric guitar), and Mike Strandberg (guitar, mandolin). Sounds like both the producers and band helped flesh out the songs and sound in a new way for the singer/songwriter…
“The combination of Chris and Rob on this record kind of marries the best aspects of everything I’ve tried to do over the past ten years,” Devine said. “I tried to explore a bit musically and make an album that still has a lot to chew on, but serves it with a scoop of ice cream. I took the lyrical density of what I typically write – which are not-simple stories about not-simple people, or what I feel life is most accurately like – but give them more of a traditional pop structure.”
Watch Devine perform “Sleep Walking Through My Life” with Morgan Kibby from White Sea / M83 at Rob Schnapf’s studio during the recording of the album:
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Athenawp
July 7, 2011 at 9:50 pm (13 years ago)So very weird… I was thinking of how lyrics always win over genre with me while listening to “Between The Concrete and the Clouds,” and my next thought was about Jimi Hendrix, and how his music was comparable to lyrics, themselves (as I didn’t need to understand him in order to understand or feel him). Then I watch the video for “Sleepwalking Through my Life,” and Hendrix flashes on the screen at the end. Pretty cool…