{"id":19984,"date":"2016-02-20T10:55:51","date_gmt":"2016-02-20T15:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=19984"},"modified":"2016-02-16T22:07:22","modified_gmt":"2016-02-17T03:07:22","slug":"big-ups-debut-national-parks-video-npr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=19984","title":{"rendered":"Big Ups debut ‘National Parks’ video on NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"

Big Ups are very pleased to debut the video for National Parks<\/em>, the second single from their forthcoming album\u00a0‘Before A Million Universes,’ on NPR today. Watch the video\u00a0here<\/a>. The New York four-piece, comprised of Joe Galarraga (Vocals), Amar Lal (Guitar), Carlos Salguero Jr. (Bass), and Brendan Finn (Drums), will release\u00a0‘Before a Million Universes,’ their second full-length, on March 4th in the US via Exploding In Sound Records, and Tough Love in the UK.<\/p>\n

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Following the record’s first teaser “Capitalized” (which appeared\u00a0online<\/a>\u00a0before Christmas alongside plans for a spring UK\/EU tour), National Parks<\/em> eschews the political for the deeply personal. As the album’s emotional and musical core, National Parks<\/em> is a song that Galarraga wrote as a tribute to the sacrifices his mother made to raise him.<\/p>\n

We’re led through the anger and bewilderment at his mom’s solitary walks through their neighborhood and the selfishness inherent to childhood and into a coda where you can almost see the sun streaming through the trees of Galarraga’s park, drums steady and swelling, a transition in tone and mood that this band has nearly perfected. “I think I saw her say to herself, this is everything I’ve missed.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Director Robert Kolodny described the video as “a frantic expression of the lonesome, bland and overwhelming reality that I think most people silently struggle with beneath their skin. Half way through the song when things open up, the video diverges into a fantasy of the racing mind; a longing to be somewhere else, running, dancing.”<\/em><\/p>\n

The album draws its title from a Walt Whitman quote (“let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes”<\/em>) and serves as a fist in the face of complacency, which is, equally, an apt summary of the band’s fiery live show. Big Ups will travel south to Texas this March for SXSW and upon returning home will fly to Europe for a month long tour. See below for dates!<\/p>\n

Track listing:\u00a0<\/b>
\n01. Contain Myself
\n02.\u00a0Capitalized<\/a>
\n03. Posture
\n04. Feathers Of Yes
\n05. Meet Where We Are
\n06. Negative (Intro)
\n07. Negative
\n08. Hope For Someone
\n09. Knight
\n10.\u00a0National Parks<\/a>
\n11. So Much You
\n12. Proximity Effect
\n13. Yawp<\/p>\n

Tour dates:<\/b>
\n03\/09 –\u00a0Washington, DC @ Comet Ping Pong
\n03\/11 –\u00a0Savannah, GA @ Savannah Stopover
\n03\/12 –\u00a0Nashville, TN @ Exit\/In
\n03\/13 –\u00a0Denton, TX @ 35 Denton
\n03\/15-03\/20 –\u00a0Austin, TX @ SXSW
\n03\/28 –\u00a0Glasgow, UK @ Broadcast
\n03\/29 –\u00a0Manchester, UK @ Gullivers
\n03\/30 –\u00a0London, UK @ The Lexington
\n03\/31 – Leeds, UK @ Headrow House
\n04\/01 –\u00a0Bristol, UK @ Louisiana
\n04\/02 – Birmingham, UK @ Sunflower Lounge
\n04\/04 –\u00a0Lille, FR @ La Peniche
\n04\/05 –\u00a0Paris, FR @ Mecanique Ondulatorie
\n04\/06 –\u00a0Brussels, BE @ VK
\n04\/08 –\u00a0Groningen, NL @ Vera
\n04\/09 –\u00a0Eindhoven, NL @ Area 51 Skate Park
\n04\/10 –\u00a0Cologne, DE @ MTC
\n04\/11 –\u00a0Vienna, AT @ B72
\n04\/12 –\u00a0Bologna, IT @ Freakout Club
\n04\/13 –\u00a0Mila, IT @ Ligera
\n04\/14 –\u00a0Munich, DE @ Kranhalle
\n04\/16 –\u00a0Hamburg, DE @ Molotow
\n04\/18 –\u00a0Berlin, DE @ Cassiopeia
\n04\/19 –\u00a0Copenhagen, DK @ Loppen
\n04\/21 –\u00a0Amsterdam, NL @ OT301<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Big Ups are very pleased to debut the video for National Parks, the second single from their forthcoming album\u00a0‘Before A Million Universes,’ on NPR today. 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