Tidelands – “The New Black” [Free Download]

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The Skinny: The San Francisco-based duo Tidelands will release its sophomore album We’ve Got A Map on August 7th. The album’s first single and video “The New Black” is now available for download from your favourite little rock site. We’ve Got A Map is the follow-up to the band’s debut If… released last year.

“We never really stopped after we completed that record,” says Tidelands vocalist, guitarist and flugelhorn player Gabriel Leis. “We were booking three-day sessions six weeks apart all throughout the summer and fall of 2011.” The key word to describe ‘We’ve Got A Map’ is spontaneity,” says Leis’s bandmate, drummer Mie Araki. “Much of our current songwriting style is based on this word.”

Leis also notes the new sound of We’ve Got A Map as compared to the band’s previous album, owing this to his ongoing deliberate effort to create a more uplifting listen and to get away from the heaviness and headiness of his natural writing style. “We had moments of that kind of celebratory joyousness on If…, but this time around I wanted the overall feel of the record to reflect this attitude,” he explains.