{"id":39742,"date":"2023-10-31T17:15:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-31T21:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=39742"},"modified":"2023-10-28T08:17:17","modified_gmt":"2023-10-28T12:17:17","slug":"the-laughing-chimes-shares-new-gloomy-songs-in-time-for-halloween","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=39742","title":{"rendered":"The Laughing Chimes shares new gloomy songs in time for Halloween"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The newest Laughing Chimes single, A Promise To Keep<\/em>, expands on the band’s now familiar jangle-pop sound with blooms and echoes of Southern Gothic rock (think Fables-era REM or the second Pylon album) as well as the ambitious grandeur of late 70s UK post-punk forebears. A Promise To Keep<\/em> blends lyricist Evan Seurkamp’s vision of countless abandoned towns of Appalachia with cavernous vocal poeticism, moth-wing guitars, and the lyrical bass of new band member Avery Bookman into a haunting anthem of decaying houses and moonlit fields.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the “B-side” we have the band’s version of Ballerina Out of Control<\/em>, a deep cut from 80s jangle\/dream-pop band The Ocean Blue and a formative influence on the Seurkamp brothers. The Laughing Chimes’ version is stunning, evoking a mood of melancholic ache that makes a perfect complement to the dark drive of A Promise To Keep<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2018A Promise To Keep<\/strong>\u2019 track listing<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a01. A Promise To Keep
2. Ballerina Out Of Control<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stream: A Promise To Keep + Ballerina Out Of Control<\/em> via Streaming Services<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The newest Laughing Chimes single, A Promise To Keep, expands on the band’s now familiar jangle-pop sound with blooms and echoes of Southern Gothic rock […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39743,"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":[11413,11412,11411],"class_list":["post-39742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guitar-rock","category-indie","category-music","category-new-release","category-news","tag-a-promise-to-keep","tag-ballerina-out-of-control","tag-the-laughing-chimes"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/FFE040EA-7CD3-444E-80D8-AF53A611EBCE.jpeg?fit=900%2C675&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2B2TV-al0","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":40589,"url":"https:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=40589","url_meta":{"origin":39742,"position":0},"title":"The Laughing Chimes share two new songs from new Slumberland single","author":"cultureaddicts","date":"May 18, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"The Laughing Chimes share two new songs from their new Slumberland single. 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