Violents and Monica Martin – How It Left

Labels: Partisan Records
Number of Tracks: 1
Total Time: 4:26
From the Album: Awake And Pretty Much Sober
Formats: Triple A, Specialty, AAA, Non-Commercial, NPR
Available Date & Time: February 21, 2017 05:30 PM ET
Impact Date: February 27, 2017
Country: USA

First single, "Equal Powers," premiered/added by Sirius XMU, followed by KBAC, Music Choice Indie, OpenAir, Radio Milwaukee, WFUV and more!

Key spins on Birmingham Mountain Radio, The Colorado Sound, The Current, Echoes, KCRW, KDHX, KROX, KTCK, KXCI, KXT, SiriusXM Alt Nation, WNRN and more!

"a fluttering, refreshingly minimal orchestral number buoyed by Martin’s seductive quicksilver vocals" — Vice Noisey

"Dream pop at its best, and also its saddest" — Consequence Of Sound

"The combination of [Monica] Martin’s vocal and Larson’s well-blended aesthetic is a subdued but sexy romp." — Stereogum

Today Violents and Monica Martin released the next track, "How It Left," off of their debut album Awake and Pretty Much Sober, coming out April 28th on Partisan Records. NPR Music’s All Songs Considered call it a "lush siren song."

Jeremy Larson (aka Violents), a classically-trained pianist, string arranger, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist, wrote "How It Left," after watching a friend unexpectedly lose a parent.

"I spent a day lying on the couch, thinking about all of the love that I have for my parents, and how the expansiveness of it could only be compared to the ocean. It’s so vast, and so deep, and it moves in waves and lands on the shore. I was thinking about that friend, and how that ocean that was inside of them, no longer has a shore to land on."

Monica Martin, who spent the previous half-decade fronting the Midwest folk-pop band PHOX, brought the synth-laden, airy, R&B track to life. You can feel the emotion she inflects into every word of the song, pulled from complicated emotions surrounding a loss of her own.

"When Jeremy told me where his mind was when he wrote this song, boy, I cried so much I didn’t know how I’d sound on the recording. My dad wasn’t even a place I found peace, to be honest, but nothing prepared me for his death. All the questions you never knew you wanted to ask make their way to your head as soon as you hear, and they’re just suspended there. This song speaks of feelings I avoid with all my might, so it’s been meaningful for me as a songwriter to be party to the practice of that sort of vulnerability."

The pair will play their debut show in Brooklyn at Rough Trade NYC on Wednesday, April 26 backed by a string quartet.

www.violentsmusic.com

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