New Boston outfit Tinkertown ignite anticipation for their forthcoming album with an incendiary lead single – Red Eyes.
Release Date: 27th May 2024
Label: American Laundromat Records
Formats: Digital
Tinkertown came into being when multi-instrumentalist, Dean Fisher and vocalist Gabriella Lawrence – both of Massachusetts band Ghosts and Shadows – teamed up and decided to see how far their combined talents would take them. Once the pair were joined by Elizabeth Sheen (keyboards and accordion), Joe McMahon (bass) and Russell Chudofsky (guitar) – all acquaintances of Dean from his years of performing the Boston circuit – Tinkertown was born.
With Tinkertown, Dean and Gabriella have deviated away from the power pop/dark new wave groove that was the Ghosts and Shadows stock in trade and are following, instead, a trail that takes in a whole new range of sounds, from glam rock, via Celtic styles and hard rock to Americana, folk and even jazz. And they’re promising to run the whole, entire gamut on their forthcoming debut album, American Gothic – scheduled for release in late June. Watch this space…
Meanwhile, in order to whet a few curious appetites and ignite any lurking tinder-boxes of anticipation, Tinkertown have released the album’s lead single, Red Eyes – and it’s a corker…
Awash with sharp guitar chords and heavy, bass-laden riffs, it’s the perfect introduction to what Tinkertown have in store for us. Gabriella’s light, bright voice comes as a genuine surprise against the gritty, driving rhythms – but she holds her own, and then some… – and, already, it’s clear that Tinkertown’s decision to use Red Eyes to introduce – as well as to open – their album has been a wise one. The song rocks harder and harder the longer it goes on and Gabriella’s voice fills with anguish as she sings the climatic lines: “I’m out on the road, I want to go home, please leave me alone, I’m always so cold.”
It’s thrusting, it’s thrilling and it’s delightfully fresh. Tinkertown can consider those pools of anticipation to be well and truly ignited. Now for the album…
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