Debut download: Howler's "Don't Wanna" from forthcoming 'World of Joy'
January 21, 2014
Minneapolis band Howler is set to launch a new album, World of Joy March 25, 2014. Get a preview of what's in store for the new record and download the track "Don't Wanna."
World of Joy was written and recorded in Minneapolis at The Terrarium studio with America Give Up producer Chris Heidman. The band brought a new drummer, Rory MacMurdo, on board for this recording.
Quoted in NME, Howler frontman Jordan Gatesmith describes the theme of World of Joy: "The idea of this record is to expand the vocabulary of what the band does. There's a time for us to be pretentious little assholes. There's that [on there] but there's also plenty of bratty rock'n'roll."
He elaborates, "It's got grindy Howler guitars but I think we took a note from Husker Du and put a chorus on the grindy guitars. It's definitely a weird hybrid of '80s-ness meets The Byrds."
That's a statement you can take to the bank, since Gatesmith and company performed a stellar cover of the Husker dudes' "Don't Want to Know If You Are Lonely" at 2012's Rock the Garden.
