{"id":22010,"date":"2016-06-08T12:00:42","date_gmt":"2016-06-08T16:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=22010"},"modified":"2016-06-05T08:27:48","modified_gmt":"2016-06-05T12:27:48","slug":"ancient-cities-reveals-marmalade-announce-sophomore-album-supermoon-blackout-71","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=22010","title":{"rendered":"Ancient Cities reveals ‘Marmalade’ + announce sophomore album ‘Supermoon Blackout’ Out 7\/1"},"content":{"rendered":"

Following their well-received self-titled debut album in 2014,\u00a0Ancient Cities\u00a0returns to bring us ‘Supermoon Blackout,’ due out 7\/1 and available to\u00a0pre-order now<\/a>. After being invited to play Newport Folk Festival in 2015 by Converse, the band began recording at Converse Rubber Tracks Studio in Boston and Sioux Sioux Studio before taking the record to frontman Stephen Warwick\u2019s home studio to wrap up. What emerged is both raw and organic in the ways you\u2019d expect and enjoy from and fuzzed out rock album like this.<\/p>\n

They\u2019ve expanded on a sound that is lively, warm, angsty, and ferocious, and the new addition of organ\/synth sounds have only added to the party. ‘Supermoon Blackout’\u00a0<\/em>will have you swooning, dancing silly, jumping around wildly, or nodding your head and tapping your steering wheel from one song to another. The band is putting one foot in front of the other along the road of psychedelic folk rock laid before them. Each stone placed with road-tested material has landed them features in Vanity Fair, The Village Voice, as well as live video sessions with Paste Magazine and Live & Breathing. Creatively and otherwise, Ancient Cities is following this road to success – polishing their evolving tastes but not straying far from their fuzz rock n roll, psyched out pop roots.<\/p>\n

Songs like Sunburn<\/em> take you back to the swooning melodies and harmonies of 60\u2019s rock \u2018n\u2019 roll, while Actress<\/em> is an instant party starter.\u00a0Midnight<\/em> gives you a sense that you\u2019re coming back to life – or realizing that somewhere along the road you lost yourself and just noticed you\u2019re back. Marmalade<\/em> captures the essence of the album musically as an ode to getting lost in rock n roll textures, swooning vocals, and a fuzzed out guitar solo.\u00a0Take a listen to Marmalade<\/em> via Soundcloud below.<\/p>\n