{"id":38319,"date":"2022-08-07T17:15:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-07T21:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=38319"},"modified":"2022-08-03T22:04:47","modified_gmt":"2022-08-04T02:04:47","slug":"dendrons-share-new-single-vain-repeating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=38319","title":{"rendered":"Dendrons share new single \u2018Vain Repeating\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Chicago-based five-piece,&nbsp;Dendrons&nbsp;have shared <em>Vain Repeating<\/em>, the final advance preview of their forthcoming second album,&nbsp;\u20185-3-8\u2019&nbsp;which is out via LA-based label,&nbsp;Innovative Leisure (Alex Maas, BADBADNOTGOOD)&nbsp;on&nbsp;August 26.&nbsp;The band, which has just wrapped up a Mexican tour with&nbsp;A Place to Bury Strangers,&nbsp;has found tips for&nbsp;this new&nbsp;album from&nbsp;Stereogum,&nbsp;FLOOD,&nbsp;Brooklyn Vegan, Post Trash, CBC Radio,&nbsp;Under the Radar, KCRW&nbsp;and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Vain Repeating<\/em> changes tact from the jungle-inflected world of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/showyourbonespr.us4.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=4c25773ce0262fea87830a367&amp;id=12db3f9601&amp;e=718aede610\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>New Outlook II<\/em><\/a>&nbsp;finding&nbsp;the band tapping into a punkier sound, switching flows and dynamics in a similar fashion to Magazine, Wire, etc. Speaking about the track, Dane Jarvie of the band says: &#8220;<em>The song was created as a word pastiche of inconsequential data, spit out in aura of self-importance. The song deals with a loose promise of either cathartic piety, or vanity, through repetition, depending on who you\u2019re talking to.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u20185-3-8\u2019 \u2013\u00a0titled as a reference to\u00a0the lyrical refrain that appears at a few points of the album of \u201cfifths, thirds, octaves only\u201d \u2013\u00a0was recorded at Sonic Ranch in Tornillo, Texas and Highland Recording Studio in Phoenix, Arizona; it was produced by\u00a0Tony Brant\u00a0and Sonny Di Perri\u00a0(Protomartyr, DIIV, Nine Inch Nails, Animal Collective, Emma Ruth Rundle, Dirty Projectors)\u00a0before being\u00a0mastered at Elysian Sound by Dave Cooley.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Listen to <em>Vain Repeating<\/em> via all platforms <a href=\"https:\/\/showyourbonespr.us4.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=4c25773ce0262fea87830a367&amp;id=d51267fb9e&amp;e=718aede610\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a> or via YouTube below. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-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\/9ajDeVb7Y5k?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>Dendrons hit the road before they even knew exactly where they were headed. On New Year\u2019s Day 2018, Dane Jarvie and Zak Sprenger first convened in Chicago to start a new project, recording a demo at home by the seat of their pants, and almost immediately after, began to play shows. \u201c<em>I would just email as many people as possible,\u201d<\/em> says Jarvie. \u201c<em>I\u2019m like, \u2018Can we open this?\u2019 It didn\u2019t matter if it was in Dallas or New Orleans or Sioux Falls, South Dakota. It was like, let\u2019s go.\u201d<\/em><br><br>With a band name chosen by flipping through books in the library (\u201cDendron\u201d is Greek for \u201ctree\u201d) and a sound and lineup in healthy evolution as they bounced around North America, Dendrons were finding who they were in front of a live audience. Over the course of 2018 and 2019, they were developing a propulsive, acerbic rock style both reminiscent of midwestern peers like Deeper and Dehd and reaching beyond to develop an unmistakable aura all their own. They put out their debut, 2020\u2019s Dendrons, and were packing their bags for a full European tour before it had to be abruptly canceled when borders closed and venues shut down around the world. Suddenly, a band that cut their teeth on the road had to get comfortable staying at home.<br><br>\u201c<em>It was out of necessity,<\/em>\u201d says Jarvie, who started brainstorming ideas for a new album back at his family\u2019s home in Phoenix, Arizona, just after the pandemic took hold. When he returned to Chicago a few months later, the full band of Jarvie (vocals\/guitar\/synth), Sprenger (synth\/guitar), Matt Kase (bass\/synth\/vocals), John MacEachen (guitar\/samples), Nick Togliatti (drums), and Stef Roti (drums) formed a bubble to get together and work out what would prove to be their highly ambitious and meticulously crafted second album, \u20185-3-8\u2019. \u201c<em>It was just like, well, we can\u2019t tour, we can\u2019t do anything,\u201d<\/em> Jarvie remembers. \u201c<em>So we might as well just stick together and really create something.\u201d<\/em><br><br>Meeting three or four times a week, and ultimately rehearsing almost 40 song ideas, Dendrons began to methodically whittle down the batch to a set of songs that weaved through one another intricately, with lyrical and musical motifs dancing around a swirling rock arrangement. Taken on their own, tracks like <em>Vain Repeating<\/em> and <em>Octaves Only<\/em> tap into the manic energy and wit of bands like Wire and Stereolab\u2014but in the context of the album\u2019s full vision, they come together to paint an album informed by the post-truth spectacle, and a desire for optimism in the face of isolation.<br><br>The lyrics paint those emotions with subtlety, having been put together partially through a cut-up method, grabbing words and phrases from places such as CNN and CSPAN. \u201c<em>That was a real intention with this record was to try different techniques in terms of how words are coming together\u2014stringing together sentences through collage,\u201d <\/em>Jarvie explains. On <em>New Outlook 1<\/em>, he sings in his direct, almost Stephen Malkmus-like style: \u201c<em>Soon we\u2019ll be stooped over laughing \/ Watching ourselves high on a vision.\u201d<\/em><br><br>\u201c<em>You\u2019re always gonna leave a record feeling like there is something more to be said,\u201d<\/em> Jarvie says. \u201c<em>I don\u2019t believe in a magnum opus. Art is contextual and exists for the specific time and circumstance it was created in. Every record is a conversation with the last.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mcusercontent.com\/4c25773ce0262fea87830a367\/_compresseds\/bf00e448-6554-baaf-a2c9-71c2d383effd.jpg?ssl=1\" alt=\"Dendrons 5-3-8 cover artwork\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2018<strong>5-3-8<\/strong>\u2019 <strong>track list<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/showyourbonespr.us4.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=4c25773ce0262fea87830a367&amp;id=e49bcf08e0&amp;e=718aede610\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Wait In Line<\/a><br>2.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/showyourbonespr.us4.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=4c25773ce0262fea87830a367&amp;id=939134cfa5&amp;e=718aede610\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Double Ending<\/a><br>3.\u00a0Vain Repeating<br>4. People Scare Me<br>5. New Outlook<br>6.<a href=\"https:\/\/showyourbonespr.us4.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=4c25773ce0262fea87830a367&amp;id=8ff885fac1&amp;e=718aede610\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u00a0New Outlook II<\/a><br>7. High In The Circle K<br>8. Interlude (Adjusting To The Light)<br>9. Octaves Only<br>10.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/showyourbonespr.us4.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=4c25773ce0262fea87830a367&amp;id=799140d49f&amp;e=718aede610\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Tangle<\/a><br>11. True<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pre-order Dendrons&#8217;\u00a0\u20185-3-8\u2019<a href=\"https:\/\/showyourbonespr.us4.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=4c25773ce0262fea87830a367&amp;id=055d7d0bdc&amp;e=718aede610\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Chicago-based five-piece,&nbsp;Dendrons&nbsp;have shared Vain Repeating, the final advance preview of their forthcoming second album,&nbsp;\u20185-3-8\u2019&nbsp;which is out via LA-based label,&nbsp;Innovative Leisure (Alex Maas, BADBADNOTGOOD)&nbsp;on&nbsp;August 26.&nbsp;The band, <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=38319\" title=\"Dendrons share new single \u2018Vain Repeating\u2019\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38320,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[22,23,28,30,1907],"tags":[10875,10876,10874],"class_list":["post-38319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guitar-rock","category-indie","category-music","category-new-release","category-news","tag-5-3-8","tag-dendrons","tag-vain-repeating"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/B7C70F99-E070-4F6B-97DB-D002AF162453.jpeg?fit=1000%2C1250&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2B2TV-9Y3","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":38371,"url":"https:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=38371","url_meta":{"origin":38319,"position":0},"title":"Dendrons release new new album &#8216;5-3-8&#8217;","author":"cultureaddicts","date":"August 27, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Chicago-based five-piece,\u00a0Dendrons\u00a0have released their much-anticipated second album,\u00a0\u20185-3-8\u2019 which is out now via LA-based label,\u00a0Innovative Leisure (Alex Maas, BADBADNOTGOOD).\u00a0The band has found widespread acclaim for this new album from\u00a0Uncut, Classic Rock,\u00a0Stereogum,\u00a0FLOOD, Brooklyn Vegan, Post Trash, CBC Radio,Under the Radar, KCRW\u00a0and more. 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