Three EP "Suites" Total Coming This Fall For Free At Amazon.com
The Explorers Club, a band hailing from Charleston, SC, will be
releasing its sophomore set, “Grand Hotel,” in early spring 2012, with
Mark Linett (who just finished the mix on Beach Boys’ “SMiLE” for
Capitol Records) mixing the release. In advance of the release of
“Grand Hotel,” the band has readied three EP “suites” that will each
feature one cover song not on the album, bundled with two early
“under-construction” (pre-Linett) mixes of tracks from the forthcoming
set. The second of the three suites, “The Carolinian Suite,” will be
available exclusively at Amazon MP3 for free on November 22, 2011. The
remaining Suite will be available in December, also for free,
exclusively at Amazon MP3. The first suite, “The Californian Suite,”
went to #7 on the Amazon free downloads chart.
The “Carolinian Suite,” which comes out next week, reprises the
Classics IV hit, “Stormy,” along with originals “Sweet Delights” and
“It’s No Use.” The “Californian Suite,” which is already out, features
the Burt Bacharach standard, “Walk On By,” along with two Explorers Club
originals (“Weight Of The World and “Summer Days, Summer Nights”). The
“New Yorker Suite,” which comes out in December, will feature the
Explorers Club’s take on the Vanity Fare opus, “Hitchin’ A Ride,” and it
will be tied to “Anticipatin’” and “Run, Run, Run,” the latter of which
will later be released to radio as the lead track from “Grand Hotel.”
“Grand Hotel” is the long-anticipated follow-up to the band’s
close-your-eyes-and-you’d-swear-it-was-the-Beach Boys debut, “Freedom
Wind,” and was produced in Atlanta by band member Jason Brewer, along
with co-producer Matt Goldman. It features fifteen tracks that once
again take listeners back in time to a period when radio was laden with
songs by Burt Bacharach, Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass, and pop
mainstays like The Grass Roots.
The Explorers Club’s debut, “Freedom Wind,” was released to
accolades in 2008 via Secretly Canadian’s Dead Oceans label, and tracks
from the album appeared on such hit television shows as “Bored To Death”
(HBO), “The O.C.” (FOX) and “How I Met Your Mother” (CBS). The press
praise was extensive and glowing:
- USA Today: “quite remarkable”
- Time Out Chicago: “indulgent fun”
- Uncut: “It’s a toss-up whether Jason Brewer’s classically crafted songs or the spot-on arrangements are more irresistible.”
- The Onion AV Club: “the album is beautiful – wholly, deeply, and truly.”
- UTNE Reader: “Pet Sounds just got 35 minutes longer.”
- Chicago Reader: “pristinely perfect”
- San Francisco Bay Guardian: “instantly hummable soda-fountain swooners”
- Performer Magazine: “a wonderfully cotton-candy sweet album of indie-pop gems that bring to mind the breezy/orchestral pop of years gone by.”
The Explorers Club is: Jason Brewer (guitars, keyboards, vocals),
Dave Ellis (guitars, mandolin, accordian, percussion, vocals), Wally
Reddington III (bass, vocals), Justin James (guitar, steel guitar,
vocals), Paul Runyon (keyboards, vocals), and Kyle Polk (drums).
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