State Shirt - This Is Old

Ethan Tufts, he's the backbone of State Shirt, an indie rock outfit from Los Angeles, perhaps I should say he is State Shirt. As far as we concern, he's the guy whose behind all the instrumentation involved in those beat thumping tracks. And all I can say, he's a dope man. A dope man that makes intriguing tones.

State Shirt sculpts fiery, intense indie rock anthems for the wondering, wandering and hopeful. Venturing wildly into the farthest corners of heavy-hearted American landscapes, State Shirt's music displays vivid, gripping stories of nostalgia, despair and hope.

From Southern California's droning and faceless San Fernando Valley to the snowy back roads of Western Massachusetts. Steeped in a cycle of inescapable, mind-numbing full-time jobs, State Shirt relies on hand-built loops, neglected instruments and riveting vocals to artfully describe captivity in a familiar never-ending cycle: work, drink, sleep, repeat.

But, through it all, a glimmer of hope shines.

From a modest bedroom sanctuary devoted to writing and recording, sparkles of surreal, melancholic melodies bubble up. Voltage runs through a collection of dusty pedals, guitars and electronics to deliver This Is Old, State Shirt's deeply textured second album, a set of swirling and burning indie-tronic statements proving that monotonous lives can produce exceptional results.

This Is Old will hit stores on November 11 through Los Fucking Angeles Records.

Via Fanatic.