Parker Barrow announce new sophomore album Hold The Mash and release new single Blinded – Summer 2026 U.S. and U.K. dates on the table.
HOLD THE MASH…
Hold The Mash will be with us on 17th July. The follow up to 2023’s Jukebox Gypsies features songs from last year’s Hold The Mash E.P., including the singles Make It, Novocaine, The Healer, and Glass Eyes Cryin’, alongside four new songs.
Blinded was written by Parker Barrow drummer and founder Dylan Turner, along with guitarist and musical director Alex Bender. Parker Barrow will be on the road in the U.S. for much of the summer, before heading to the U.K. in July for the band’s first headline tour, plus performances at the Steelhouse and Maid Of Stone festivals.
“It was one of the first tracks written and recorded for the new album,” says guitarist Bender about the new single. “It helped to give a bit of direction to where we hoped to go with the tracks that were to follow. The main riff sounds very Stonesy. I approached the rhythm guitar parts how I would imagine Keith Richards would play them if he was in the band. Blinded is a good example of the less is more approach where the beauty lies in its simplicity.”
IN SHORT…
Led from the front as usual by husband-and-wife duo Megan Kane (lead vocals) and Dylan Turner (drums), the new single, Blinded, teases the album nicely as the Parker Barrow big band don their gleaming white suits to deliver a great thick shot of a riff to meet the expectation of Bender’s perfect description. On a (probably dark) street corner, Keith Richards cross swords with Angus Young and the duo combine on a riff overheard by Bender as Megan weighs in with the “have you ever had to beg” opening line. A back to basics example of how to work a groove that would be right at home in a bouncing stadium. Add some choice lashings of soul courtesy of tasty keyboard textures and backing vox, and Blinded is as good a reason as any to long for Hold The Mash. Just don’t be thrown by the false ending and park any false hope!
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