{"id":26580,"date":"2017-08-23T12:15:14","date_gmt":"2017-08-23T16:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=26580"},"modified":"2017-08-22T20:09:26","modified_gmt":"2017-08-23T00:09:26","slug":"dead-stars-share-new-single-smarter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=26580","title":{"rendered":"Dead Stars share new single &#8216;Smarter&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_26581\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26581\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-26581\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/03d2fb3e-6859-49a6-999d-b31a409e037a.jpg?resize=600%2C415\" alt=\"Dead Stars\" width=\"600\" height=\"415\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/03d2fb3e-6859-49a6-999d-b31a409e037a.jpg?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/03d2fb3e-6859-49a6-999d-b31a409e037a.jpg?resize=300%2C208&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-26581\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Rick Perez<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Dead Stars will release their new LP, <a href=\"http:\/\/highvoltagepr.us8.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=8bbd1fce629615658f82df5cd&amp;id=473547f3a8&amp;e=b0da5a889f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&#8216;Perfect Patterns&#8217;<\/a>, on September 1st. A follow-up to last year&#8217;s &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2w1Fncw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bright Colors<\/a>&#8216; and 2014&#8217;s &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2vWKIDw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Slumber<\/a>,&#8217; it still features\u00a0plenty of fuzzed-out guitars, catchy pop hooks, and a touch of &#8217;90s nostalgia, but with a more minimalist song structure and stripped-down arrangements than past releases.<\/p>\n<p>Album track\u00a0<em>Smarter<\/em> finds the Brooklyn band doing what they do best: pairing\u00a0crunchy guitar riffs with slacker-esque lyrics and an undeniably catchy chorus.\u00a0You can listen to the track via Soundcloud below.<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F338132101&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&visual=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&color=878787\"><\/iframe>\n<p>Exploring themes of materialism, addiction, and getting older, Dead Stars&#8217; third LP is their most honest and intimate release to date. Written during a time when everything around the band seemed to be changing at warp speed, they focused on the one thing that hadn&#8217;t changed: their common love of playing loud, energetic indie rock. If anything, they&#8217;ve become more comfortable saying what they want to say, which comes through lyrically on the new\u00a0album.<\/p>\n<p>The band will celebrate the release of\u00a0&#8216;Perfect Patterns&#8217; at Brooklyn&#8217;s Sunnyvale on September 1st &#8212; more info <a href=\"http:\/\/highvoltagepr.us8.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=8bbd1fce629615658f82df5cd&amp;id=f414a48129&amp;e=b0da5a889f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Dead Stars will release their new LP, &#8216;Perfect Patterns&#8217;, on September 1st. A follow-up to last year&#8217;s &#8216;Bright Colors&#8216; and 2014&#8217;s &#8216;Slumber,&#8217; it still features\u00a0plenty <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=26580\" title=\"Dead Stars share new single &#8216;Smarter&#8217;\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26581,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[23,28,30],"tags":[2258,6446,6539],"class_list":["post-26580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-indie","category-music","category-new-release","tag-dead-stars","tag-perfect-patterns","tag-smarter"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/03d2fb3e-6859-49a6-999d-b31a409e037a.jpg?fit=600%2C415&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2B2TV-6UI","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":26334,"url":"https:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=26334","url_meta":{"origin":26580,"position":0},"title":"Dead Stars share new single &#8216;Happy Or Sad&#8217;","author":"cultureaddicts","date":"August 5, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Brooklyn's Dead Stars will release their new LP, 'Perfect Patterns,' on September 1st. 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