Unusual Ranger Share Video for New Track “Large Awake”

Pure Music Due Out This Friday by way of Hearth Speak

Jul 17, 2023

By Mark Redfern

Pictures by Kiernan Francis

New York Metropolis by way of Philadelphia quartet Unusual Ranger are releasing a brand new album, Pure Music, this Friday by way of Hearth Speak. Now the band have shared the album’s fourth single, “Large Awake,” by way of a music video. Lola Dement Myers directed the video. Watch it under, adopted by the band’s upcoming tour dates.

Unusual Ranger is Isaac Eiger, Fiona Woodman, Nathan Tucker, and Fred Nixon.

“I used to be fascinated with these flashes of reminiscence that stick in your head ceaselessly,” Eiger says of “Large Awake” in a press launch. “Bursts of senses that return each once in a while however don’t lead wherever past themselves like a GIF in your mind. It’s bizarre to consider what stays with you and if that’s in any respect associated to how essential the factor in query was.”

Pure Music consists of “Rain So Laborious,” a brand new track the band shared in March. Then when the album was introduced in Could, the band shared its second single, “She’s on Hearth,” by way of a music video. “She’s on Hearth” was certainly one of our Songs of the Week. Then the band shared the album’s third single, “Means Out.” “Means Out” was once more certainly one of our Songs of the Week.

Pure Music is the follow-up to 2019’s Remembering the Rockets album and 2021’s No Gentle in Heaven mixtape. The album was written whereas Eiger and Woodman have been breaking apart and was recorded in a cabin in Upstate New York throughout a blizzard.

“With a number of exceptions, I can’t inform whose manufacturing concepts have been whose, once I hear again to it,” mentioned Nixon in a earlier press launch. “We have been actually trapped on this cabin, manically working in any respect hours, and the vitality was loopy, in a enjoyable approach.”

“Music makes us transcend the sensation of being alienated from or trapped by the world,” Woodman added. “I need the expertise of listening to Pure Music to be euphoric.”

“She’s on Hearth” has a little bit of an ’80s vibe at the beginning earlier than it embraces ’90s shoegaze (the earlier press launch cited My Bloody Valentine’s Loveless). The press launch additionally talked about disco, home, and experimental pop as reference factors for Pure Music.

Unusual Ranger Tour Dates:

Fri. Aug. 4 – New York, NY @ DROM ✧
Sat. Aug. 5 – Philadelphia, PA @ Johnny Brenda’s ♡
Thu. Aug. 31 – Richmond, VA @ The Camel
Fri. Sep. 1 – Durham, NC @ The Pinhook
Sat. Sep. 2 – Atlanta, GA @ 529
Solar. Sep. 3 – Pensacola, FL @ The Handlebar
Tue. Sep. 5 – Denton, TX @ Andy’s
Wed. Sep. 6 – Austin, TX @ Mohawk
Fri. Sep. 8 – Phoenix, AZ @ Linger Longer Lounge
Solar. Sep. 10 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Resident
Mon. Sep. 11 – San Francisco, CA @ Thee Parkside
Tue. Sep. 12 – Reno, NV @ The Holland Mission
Thu. Sep. 14 – Portland, OR @ Polaris Corridor
Fri. Sep. 15 – Seattle, WA @ Vera Mission
Solar. Sep. 17 – Missoula, MT @ The Showroom
Mon. Sep. 18 – Salt Lake Metropolis, UT @ Kilby Court docket
Tue. Sep. 19 – Denver, CO @ Hello-Dive
Fri. Sep. 22 – Chicago, IL @ The Hideout
Sat. Sep. 23 – St. Louis, MO @ The Sinkhole
Mon. Sep. 25 – Indianapolis, IN @ Healer

✧ w/ Nourished By Time & particular friends
♡ w/ Snoozer, Full Physique 2

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