Tequila Sirens throw it down to ‘PVD 6/20’
The Somerville project from multi-instrumentalist and producer Shaun Curran releases the ‘Fast Clouds’ EP on March 19
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New single ‘PVD 6/20’ lands this Friday, March 5
Somerville, Mass. -- Last month, Tequila Sirens warned that “You’re Gonna Face Somebody.” Now, the Somerville project from songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer Shaun Curran wants the person you’ll be facing to be yourself. With a slightly different vibe and feel from the brash psych-pop of his forthcoming EP’s lead single, Tequila Sirens this Friday unveil a weathered Americana-tinged track called “PVD 6/20.”
The new single is the second song released from new EP Fast Clouds, out March 19, and it’s a change-of-pace both sonically and thematically from the prior effort.
“I was thinking of people during the protests last summer,” says Curran. “I feel now that it is a bit privileged-sounding but, I had just moved to Providence and there were marches happening. I wanted to make a pop song that mixed some sort of connection with the protests between either a child or girlfriend or a lover that were being portrayed as evil but were actually fighting for life and family.”
Curran, like a lot of us, are still processing, and reflecting on, the events that transpired over the course of 2020, culminating in the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement across America. “It all doesn’t make sense, it still doesn’t,” Curran says of our country’s racial divide. “But like a lot of people, in my city and all the others, I don’t feel like I can settle anymore. There were a lot of fireworks last summer.”
The reflective “PVD 6/20” further enhances the dynamics of Tequila Sirens’ Fast Clouds EP; it’s a solo project by name only, as the artist finds himself surrounded by friends, family, and collaborators on this gritty batch of new material -- everyone from former Soft Pyramids bandmates to Boston music scene veterans (including Sarah Borges and Jim Leonard) to his wife, Marisa Curran.
“Tequila Sirens was supposed to be a band but we went into lockdown,” Curran says. “My favorite part of making music is the collaboration, and people were very generous with their time and talent.”
The Fast Clouds EP was engineered and mixed by Curran at Napoleon Complex in Somerville, MA, and Pugilist Recording in Providence, RI, beginning in June of last year -- a date that lends itself to the new single’s title -- and completing this past January. It was mastered by Curran’s former Soft Pyramids collaborator Dwight Hutchenson.
Shortly after the record was finished, the world heard the EP’s lead track, “You’re Gonna Face Somebody,” and its brash rock and roll swagger and lived-in feel set a tone for the EP to follow. Fast Clouds is 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.
Elsewhere across the genre-defying EP’s five compositions, the title track leans in on hypnotic pop and R&B that’s almost daydream-like in aural texture, where the confessional and yearning “The Underground” soars through towering avenues of prog and soft rock. The EP closes with a buzzing cover of Dwight Twilley’s lost ‘70s power-pop nugget "Looking For The Magic," which pulls the listener right into Curran’s close personal circle.
And it’s a title, and selection, the listener is very much allowed to read into.
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. He 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.
Please contact michael@publisist.co for more information.
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The music of Tequila Sirens has been heard on:
WZBC’s Virtual Detention; Salem State Radio’s Everything You Know Is Wrong; Boston Emissions with Anngelle Wood; Bay State Rock, WMPG in Portland, ME; BumbleBee Radio; Mark Skin Radio; and WMFO’s Rising With Skybar.
Add it to your playlist by requesting radio-ready files at michael@publisist.co.
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Tequila Sirens collaborators on the ‘Fast Clouds’ EP:
Dwight Hutchenson, Dave Brophy, Paul Poremski, Marisa Curran, Rich Lynch, Mike Greenstein, Jim Leonard, Sarah Borges, Tyler Jackson, Matthew Glover
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Tequila Sirens press photo:
Photo Credits: Marisa Curran
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Media contact and all press and radio inquiries: michael@publisist.co