Premiere: Johnny Dynamite and The Bloodsuckers Share New Single “Feeding The Nite”

New LP The Story of Tommy Gun Due Out September eighth through Born Losers Information

Aug 18, 2023

By Caleb Campbell

Images by Morgy Ramone

New York outfit Johnny Dynamite and The Bloodsuckers make placing and shadowy synth pop, fusing Dynamite’s roots in indie and publish punk with an affection for pop hitmakers. The outcomes are indebted to each the band’s contemporaries and the style’s luminaries, with equal affection given to INXS and Pet Store Boys as MGMT or Max Martin. The band debuted in 2020 with Dynamite’s first full-length solo album Heartbroken, adopted by their 2021 album Sleeveless.

Subsequent month, the band are set to return with one other new album, The Story of Tommy Gun, out September eighth. The document is described by Dynamite as “a satirical antithesis to a fantasy yarn.” “The story is advised via the distorted lens of Tommy, who’s a broke, salty, New York underdog- kind that thinks the American Dream of a musician lies in Nashville, TN,” Dynamite explains. “He leaves NYC for Nashville, and alongside the best way he meets his soulmate, known as Valentine. Valentine, a saint-like vagabond, then joins him in his travels to the outskirts of Nashville, the place they sublease a lake home.

A Nashville recording studio cuts Tommy a suspiciously whole lot to trace his document and, as time goes on, Tommy has bother paying these dues. It begins to turn into obvious that the studio is a cash laundering scheme for a avenue gang. Stress from the incurring debt builds and subsequent stress on his relationship with Valentine intensifies. All of it reaches a head when out of the blue Valentine goes lacking. Tommy is left considering whether or not Valentine had been kidnapped, murdered, or if she simply ran away.

On this time, Tommy is distributed right into a paranoid frenzy taking over the function of a star-crossed lover, wishing to die by the fingers of the gang. The top of the story leaves Tommy shot on the bottom, repeating the hook penned in his first track: ‘Now you actually need to get near me.’”

Forward of the album’s launch, Dynamite has shared one other new single from the document, “Feeding The Nite,” premiering with Beneath the Radar.

“Feeding The Nite” takes on a suitably nocturnal temper, steeping Dynamite in meditative keys, and simmering synth textures. Winding sax traces add to the smokey combine whereas crisp drum machine percussion cements the classic aesthetic, leaving the monitor feeling just like the product of a forgotten ‘80s neo-noir. Dynamite himself leans into that distinction of tones, delivering a glossy vocal efficiency as his lyrics narrate the album’s important character bleeding out within the evening.

Dynamite describes the monitor as, “A track about shedding sight of proper and unsuitable when put in a foul state of affairs. You select the unsuitable path and subsequently are feeding the nite with your individual horrors and drama.”

Try the track beneath. The Story of Tommy Gun is due out September eighth through Born Losers Information. Pre-order the document right here.