Combine Records is turning 35 this year. In addition to a primarily unannounced summertime celebration (just the dates July 24-27 have actually been openly verified), a brand-new Superchunk single is coming.”Everyone Diesis out now, with its B-side “As in a Blender” (a cover of the Alastair Galbraith tune) and physical release following on January 26. Hear “Everybody Dies” listed below.
The brand-new single was motivated by the “avalanche of loss” coming from the previous couple of years; Mac McCaughan pointed out David Bowie, Prince, Pharoah Sanders, Tina Turner, and others before referencing his own buddies and peers. “It indicates naturally we’re growing older, and while we understand from an early age that yes, everyone passes away, it does not make these departures any less stunning,” he stated in a declaration. McCaughan continued:
When I tape-recorded the demonstration of the A-side, I played a bad replica of a Drive Like Jehu– type drum pattern; Rick Froberg was a musical motivation. Fortunate for everybody, I didn’t attempt to sing like him on this track. When we were thinking about covers to tape for the B-side– committed to Hamish Kilgour in the runout groove– I can be found in one day and stated, “What about an Alastair Galbraith tune?” and Jim stated, “‘As in a Blender’?” Galbraith’s meditation on death and the passage of time is rather more sanguine than ours and was precisely the one I had actually been listening to.
The brand-new single was tape-recorded by Mac MacCaughan, Laura Ballance, Jim Wilbur, and Laura King– the post– Jon Wurster lineup of the bandSuperchunk’s last album was 2022’s Wild Loneliness