{"id":34450,"date":"2020-06-14T12:15:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-14T16:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=34450"},"modified":"2020-06-14T11:29:47","modified_gmt":"2020-06-14T15:29:47","slug":"kestrels-share-new-video-single-grey-and-blue-feat-dinosaur-jr-s-j-mascis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=34450","title":{"rendered":"Kestrels share new video + single \u2018Grey And Blue\u2019 feat. Dinosaur Jr.&#8217;s J Mascis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Halifax\u2019s Kestrels have shared the first single and video lifted from their upcoming new album, \u2018Dream or Don\u2019t Dream\u2019. <em>Grey and Blue<\/em> is a&nbsp;fuzzy, reverb drenched power-pop track featuring&nbsp;soaring solos from&nbsp;Dinosaur Jr&#8217;s&nbsp;J Mascis. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Guitarist and vocalist Chad Peck explained,&nbsp;<em>&#8220;Grey and Blue is a song about being carefully and uncharacteristically optimistic and vulnerable. This song came at the end of a really rough period in my life and it captures the nervous excitement of that time. My thinking tends to get narrow and shallow during bad periods, and when I feel things start to change it&#8217;s almost overwhelming; I&#8217;m not sure if I should trust it, but I have to push forward anyway. It&#8217;s a good feeling when you meet someone who makes you feel like your eyes can open a little wider and makes the echos skip through your brain.&#8221;<\/em> Watch the video clip for the track which features Sonic, the official Culture Addicts\u2019 pup, via YouTube below. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/B_FWQnA9VTw?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-CA&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>On&nbsp;\u2018Dream or Don\u2019t Dream,\u2019&nbsp;Kestrels&nbsp;live out a guitar freak\u2019s wildest fantasies. The supercharged shoegaze rockers\u2019 fourth full-length album&nbsp;features mixing from&nbsp;John Agnello (Sonic Youth,&nbsp;Alvvays,&nbsp;Kurt Vile,&nbsp;Cyndi Lauper) and mastering engineer&nbsp;Greg Calbi&nbsp;(David Bowie,&nbsp;Lou Reed,&nbsp;Television,&nbsp;Blondie). Together, they constructed a towering devotional to tone with blazing riffs, powerhouse drums, and swooning hooks emerging from an enveloping haze.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2018Dream Or Don&#8217;t Dream\u2019&nbsp;was largely written on the sofa of&nbsp;Ash&#8217;s&nbsp;Tim Wheeler, but Wheeler is not the only guitar aficionado&nbsp;that Peck has in his contact list. <em>&#8220;J Mascis plays two solos on this song. It&#8217;s still weird to say that out loud,&#8221;<\/em> Peck explains.&nbsp;<em>&#8220;We opened for Dinosaur Jr at this wild secret show in Amherst, MA. I met Luisa, J&#8217;s wife, and his longtime engineer&nbsp;Justin Pizzoferrato&nbsp;there. Luisa invited us over to their place and J gave us a tour of his studio and just kept handing me different guitars to try out (&#8220;This was what I used when I recorded &#8220;Out There&#8221;&#8230;). It was surreal. When we were tracking this song, Justin mentioned that it would be a good song for J to play on and he set it up for me. Thanks Justin! Thanks J! He did 7 takes and they are all incredible. Maybe I&#8217;ll release the other 6 takes someday.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"2560\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/CD6236CB-1110-498F-8DD8-BFA60B842A79-scaled.jpeg?fit=1024%2C1024\" alt=\"\u2018Dream Or Don't Dream\u2019 Cover artwork\" class=\"wp-image-34452\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/CD6236CB-1110-498F-8DD8-BFA60B842A79-scaled.jpeg?w=2560&amp;ssl=1 2560w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/CD6236CB-1110-498F-8DD8-BFA60B842A79-scaled.jpeg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/CD6236CB-1110-498F-8DD8-BFA60B842A79-scaled.jpeg?resize=1024%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/CD6236CB-1110-498F-8DD8-BFA60B842A79-scaled.jpeg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/CD6236CB-1110-498F-8DD8-BFA60B842A79-scaled.jpeg?resize=768%2C768&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/CD6236CB-1110-498F-8DD8-BFA60B842A79-scaled.jpeg?resize=1536%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/CD6236CB-1110-498F-8DD8-BFA60B842A79-scaled.jpeg?resize=2048%2C2048&amp;ssl=1 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u2018Dream Or Don&#8217;t Dream\u2019<\/strong> <strong>track list<\/strong><br>1. Vanishing Point<br>2. Grey and Blue (feat. J Mascis)<br>3. It&#8217;s a Secret<br>4. Don&#8217;t Dream<br>5. A Way Out<br>6. Everything is New<br>7. Dalloway<br>8. Keep it Close<br>9. Feels Like the End<br>10. Say Less<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2018Dream Or Don&#8217;t Dream\u2019 is out&nbsp;on July&nbsp;10th&nbsp;via Darla Records.&nbsp;It\u2019s available for pre-order&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/hivemindpr.us10.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=04780c244c226dd8f0096243b&amp;id=2dadecf82c&amp;e=998dd35436\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Halifax\u2019s Kestrels have shared the first single and video lifted from their upcoming new album, \u2018Dream or Don\u2019t Dream\u2019. Grey and Blue is a&nbsp;fuzzy, reverb <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=34450\" title=\"Kestrels share new video + single \u2018Grey And Blue\u2019 feat. 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