Tequila Sirens step out of the shadows
The Somerville project from multi-instrumentalist and producer Shaun Curran is back with March 19’s ‘Fast Clouds’ EP, led by exhaling lead single ‘You’re Gonna Face Somebody’
The Somerville project from multi-instrumentalist and producer Shaun Curran is back with March 19’s ‘Fast Clouds’ EP, led by exhaling lead single ‘You’re Gonna Face Somebody’
Somerville, Mass. -- There’s a moment in “You’re Gonna Face Somebody,” the new single from Somerville psych-pop project Tequila Sirens, where you just fucking feel it. You feel the exhale, you feel the release of tension, you feel the weight of the modern world lifted off songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer Shaun Curran’s metaphorical shoulders and blown right out of the speakers.
We’d call it exuberant, if only it wasn’t so damn necessary.
There’s a golden magnetism to “You’re Gonna Face Somebody,” with its brash rock and roll swagger and weathered, lived-in feel, that sets a tone for the EP to follow.
It’s called Fast Clouds, set for March 19 release on all major streaming platforms, and it’s a swirling record doused in the troubled minds of society’s fallen concerns, a collection of psychedelic, folk, and garage rock songs whose themes of pandemic paranoia, isolation, and skepticism run as rampant as the days.
Curran’s world is all his own, and these compositions are a window into not only his musical creativity and songwriting acumen, but also into his own nocturnal existence. The former Soft Pyramids bassist and keyboardist resides where days fade to nights and back into days without much change beyond the shade density through the blinds, calendars turning a strobe light’s pace one week and then a snail’s crawl the next. He exists from a distance; breathing in the underground and enduring nights spent watching Netflix’s lineup of True Crime docs. Sometimes it shakes out differently. Sometimes he finds himself out in the wild.
So when Curran declares that we’re all gonna face somebody, as he does in the poignant “You’re Gonna Face Somebody,” the person we are facing might in fact be ourselves.
“Bad girlfriends, bad family members, bad love, bad at being a husband, exploring racial inequality, having arguments with bigots, and consuming boxes of wine and transforming because of the times,” Curran says of the track. “Thinking about people who believe in god and how pretty much everyone’s gonna be fucked and crippled and dead and poor.”
He pauses, then adds: “It’s like that quote from Barry Lyndon: ‘Good or bad, handsome or ugly, rich or poor they are all equal now.’ You can’t be rich when you’re dead.”
And now, we’re all gonna face it.
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Tequila Sirens collaborators on ‘You’re Gonna Face Somebody’:
Shaun Curran (electric guitar, combo organ, percussion, loops, vocals)
Dwight Hutchenson (bass)
Dave Brophy (drums)
Paul Poremski (electric guitar)
Marisa Curran (vocals)
Mike Greenstein (saxophone)
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Tequila Sirens press photo:
Photo Credit: Marisa Curran
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