Charming and churning indie pop coalesce on “New Progress” as Unhealthy Tiger dive into life’s little moments of that means and readability, providing extra questions than solutions however nonetheless leaving us with a way of goal, place, and presence.

Stream: “New Progress” – Unhealthy Tiger

Badvert Tiger’s exhilarating new single is full of potential and chance.

A mirrored image and inside reckoning multi function, “New Progress” aches with heartfelt hope and existential dread. As with every inflection level, there’s a wholesome dose of uncertainty, however that worry of the unknown is balanced out with a way of safety and self-knowing; of belief and religion; and of pleasure for no matter comes subsequent. Charming and churning indie pop coalesce on “New Progress” as Unhealthy Tiger dive into life’s little moments of that means and readability, providing extra questions than solutions however nonetheless leaving us with a way of goal, place, and presence.

Nothing is straightforward proper now.
I really feel so small, I really feel so small.
Not searching for safety
once I discover my again in opposition to the wall.
What’s love with out possession?
What’s love and not using a breaking level?

Atwood Journal is proud to be premiering “New Progress,” the second single of the 12 months from Bay Space-based band Unhealthy Tiger. The four-piece of Yasi Lowy (vocals/guitar), David Garges (guitar/synth/vocals), Tyler Gholson (bass), and Jacob Sherfield (drums), Unhealthy Tiger have, over the previous two years, launched themselves as a supply of dazzling vitality and heartfelt ardour: “”There’s an irresistible attraction about San Francisco’s Unhealthy Tiger and [their] candid, no-holds-barred model of indie pop,” Atwood Journal wrote in an artist function on 2022’s debut EP, Sanctuary – happening to name the EP a musical refuge in addition to “a pool of tender sonic surprise and inimitable DIY-esque indie pop mild.”

Unhealthy Tiger’s new music continues that disarming, simply lovable mixture of the intimate and endearing: “New Progress” is layered in that means, however as deep as its lyrics are, you don’t must be an English main to understand the band’s enchanting musicality.

Trying round and I discovered construction
come from friction and inversion,
tetrissing universe of religion,
and water channels, and unhealthy timing.
There was no promise made,
or held out into the empty areas that lay about me…
‘Trigger then there’s the fireplace, after which there’s
the brand new progress, and the water it requires.

“‘New Progress’ poured out of me actually quick at a time once I actually wanted it,” Yasi Lowy tells Atwood Journal. “I sat down and wrote the entire tune in most likely two hours. I tweaked a number of lyrics afterwards, however it got here out just about the best way it wanted to be. It’s additionally the primary Unhealthy Tiger tune the place the band co-created the association earlier than coming into the studio, and so it appears like essentially the most definitive ‘Unhealthy Tiger as a band tune’ but. We filmed the video collectively whereas on tour out to Treefort Music Competition in Boise, Idaho this previous March. David researched all these lovely spots alongside the route, so we’d simply pull over on the facet of the street, movie a take, and hop again into the automotive and maintain going. We simply needed to seize a number of the vitality of this second we had been having as a band, and the 4 of us can get so foolish… It was tremendous enjoyable to cease all the pieces and go play out within the snow.”

“One other factor I need to acknowledge is that ‘New Progress’ references a line within the quick story, The Untold Lie by Sherwood Anderson, which I learn as a young person and which nonetheless involves thoughts on a regular basis for me. I believe the story actually masterfully holds the dialectical pulls of magnificence and meaninglessness, freedom and inevitability.”

“Ray went out of the home and climbed the fence right into a area. It was simply rising darkish and the scene that lay earlier than him was pretty. All of the low hills had been washed with coloration and even the little clusters of bushes within the corners of the fences had been alive with magnificence. The entire world appeared to Ray Pearson to have grow to be alive with one thing simply as he and Hal had all of a sudden grow to be alive once they stood within the corn area staring into one another’s eyes.

The fantastic thing about the nation about Winesburg was an excessive amount of for Ray on that fall night. That’s all there was to it. He couldn’t stand it. Of a sudden he forgot all about being a quiet previous farm hand and throwing off the torn overcoat started to run throughout the sphere. As he ran he shouted a protest in opposition to his life, in opposition to all life, in opposition to all the pieces that makes life ugly. ‘There was no promise made,’ he cried into the empty areas that lay about him.”

For drummer Jacob Sherfield, “New Progress” holds a very particular place in his personal coronary heart, in addition to in Unhealthy Tiger’s general journey as a band.

“‘New Progress’ encompasses precisely what the title suggests,” he says. “This tune got here to the band at a time once I was going by excessive private change. It grew to become and continues to be an anchor level in my emotional reminiscence of that point. The combination of pleasure and trepidation that comes with literal new progress in life is palpable by the totally different components of the tune however in an undefined means. I really feel the tune doesn’t attempt to reply any questions, however as an alternative, permits the area to really feel comfy with the questioning, to grasp that that’s simply as a lot part of life as anything and may be met with openness as an alternative of worry.”

“It strikes like life in flux, a gradual drive that builds and fades and modifications form however strikes ahead nonetheless. As Yasi mentioned, it’s the primary actually collaborative Unhealthy Tiger observe as nicely so there’s a complete side of communal creation related to it for me. Attending to know these musicians in a brand new means round a tune like this was such a deal with and introduced us a lot nearer collectively, as musicians and mates. “What’s love with out possession? What’s love and not using a breaking level?” is a line that involves thoughts typically. It challenges the ingrained relational constructs which might be so prevalent in American and most Western tradition, this concept of affection (the large complicated components of life) being met and expressed with rigidity and try to regulate as an alternative of open curiosity and acceptance. There was no promise made, however possibly that’s the higher path.”

From the thrilling highs to the moodier, downtempo moments of hushed introspection, “New Progress” aches in all the very best methods.

Unhealthy Tiger have crafted a tune that may be the soundtrack to our personal innermost ruminations, in addition to part of our subsequent dance get together. The band hit their stride in a mixture of moody ruminations and candy, hovering grooves that evoke a soul within the depths of its personal self-discovery. Wherever you might be in your personal journeys, this tune is bound to strike a that means and shifting chord.

Stream “New Progress” completely on Atwood Journal!

And if I’m on my knees, will you get what you need?
And should you get what you need, will I get what I need?
And if I say please, and say thank you numerous,
will it develop and invert into all I need?

What’s love with out possession?
What’s love and not using a breaking level?

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