New Adam Arcuragi CD/LP out in January
We are excited to report that Adam Arcuragi’s new record Like a fire that consumes all before it… is being featured on NPR’s ‘First Listen’ this week! . The album will…
High Two is proud to announce that we will be releasing the third album from Bitter Bitter Weeks. Titled Peace is Burning Like a River, the album has Brian McTear morphing his solo project into a full-fledged rock band. Featuring members of Apollo Sunshine, The A-Sides, The Novenas, Audible, Velvet Crush, and more in support, Peace is Burning retains the intimacy of the previous Bitter Bitter Weeks albums while infusing more energy and volume.
Bitter Bitter Weeks will perform songs from the new album at Johnny Brenda’s in Philadelphia will help from Creeping Weeds and Apollo Sunshine on Friday, April 27.
Bitter bitter weeks
Peace is burning like a river
- Once and for all
- Writing letters
- Danger in the halls
- Lo-res
- Terrified
- Oxbow Lake Syndrome
- Peace is burning like a river
- Lion has his pride
- Hanna
- Sincerely, the last century
Brian McTear: vocals, guitar
Ric Menck: drums
Mike Fleming: bass, backing vocals
Brian Christinzio: piano, organ, glockenspiel
Jesse Gallagher: organ, backing vocals
Amy Morrissey: backing vocals
with
Quentin Stoltzfus: backing vocals
Sean Aylward: backing vocals
Mike Kennedy: backing vocals
Joey Sweeney: backing vocals
Noted indie producer and engineer Brian McTear (Matt Pond PA, Mazarin, Espers, Danielson, The A-Sides) returns with his third album as Bitter Bitter Weeks. Peace is Burning Like a River is a rock record. As Bitter Bitter Weeks has evolved from a solo project to a full band, McTear returns with his finest songs and best album. While past albums were dark and minimal, this is vast, honest, assured and, dare we say, “triumphant”. It taps into McTear’s work with Mazarin, as well as subtle Eno-esque beds of organ and tape echo, and the American jangle of the 1980s college underground music.
With Peace is Burning…, Bitter bitter weeks has arrived at a new era, presenting an extraordinary album of fully orchestrated memorable songs with featured guest performances by members of Mazarin, Apollo Sunshine, The A-Sides, BC Camplight, The Velvet Crush, and more. There are songs about life and death, mid-air daydreams, cold war apocalyptic fantasy, ghost dreams, hyper-awareness in the last seconds of life, friendship gone sour, apologies to future generations, and much more.
