The Bad Penny (beta)

Supergloom and The Bad Penny are getting super wicked excited about the upcoming release of their debut album, due this fall, and today we have the good fortune to unveil a new song, “Kingfisher,” from what is shaping up to be a dizzyingly delicious record.

Following the rollout of first single “sideFX” earlier this month on New Noise, “Kingfisher” is more tragic than its predecessor but retains the fusion of dream-pop and indie-rock with which the L.A. band is making a name for itself. Supergloom recently checked in with The Bad Penny to explain that “Kingfisher” is about trying, fruitlessly or not, to recapture the heady feeling of early romantic relationships.

Listen to “Kingfisher” here:

“When we wrote ‘Kingfisher,’ we wanted to make something that was really heavy, but also melodic and sort of heartbreaking,” says guitarist/vocalist Drew Aron, who wrote the song. “Something in the vain of DIIV and A Place to Bury Strangers, but in a way that was more ‘us.’ I was working on another supergloom song one day and had writer’s block, so I just started messing around and came up with the opening riff. I quickly tracked it and then used a synth to write the lead hook you hear in the intro of the song, and the rest came together fairly quickly after that.”

Aron adds that supergloom tracked founder and leader Shane Graham’s drums and newest member/collaborator Ian Stahl’s bass at Coyote Run Studio in California’s prized artist retreat of Joshua Tree. The band then returned to Graham’s home studio to record Aron’s guitars and vocals.

Stahl, who also sings for the band, engineered “Kingfisher” along with reputed New Order/Oasis collaborator Jason Rhodes, who handled the same duties for “sideFX.” Graham mixed “Kingfisher” and Will Borza (Deftones, Narrow Head) mastered it.

“This was the first time we tracked guitars and vocals at my place,” Graham states. “We challenged ourselves on the production by experimenting with layering a lot of guitars and vocals. The mix definitely put us through the wringer but in the end we came out with something we are all proud of.”

The three-piece hit the ground running last year with sets at Echo Parking Rising and Seattle’s Tremelo Fest. Supergloom—who have opened for Holy Wave, Vinyl Williams, and Taleen Kali—also intertwine noise- and alt-rock into their multifaceted sound.

The supergloom LP, which doesn’t have a title yet, will come in the wake of their August 2023 EP, Immaterial. Jeff Schroeder (Smashing Pumpkins) and Jules de Gasperis (Bleached, Low Hum) recorded and produced the five-song short player.

Head to supergloom’s Instagram, Bandcamp and Facebook pages for more on the emerging shoegazers.

Photo courtesy of supergloom.

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