Charm School has today released their new single titled ‘Happiness Is A Warm Sun’ from their upcoming album’ Debt Forever’ dropping in January.
Combining a bit of beat rock with a touch of early post-modern (that music that later morphed into what was called alternative), ‘Happiness Is A Warm Sun’ mixes up the revolution with coffee house bravado and punk show delivery for the slacker generation building a slow crescendo to a powerful anti-climatic conclusion. This is music for the cool kids; the ones that are cool, but have yet to realize it.
About ‘Happiness Is A Warm Sun’ & ‘Debt Forever’
Louisville, KY post-punk outfit Charm School will release its debut full-length album, ‘Debt Forever’, in January. This single is a bit different from the rest of the album (which falls somewhere between Shellac and Protomartyr) and sounds a bit like Lou Reed fronting Can.
“This song is kind of an outlier on the record. It’s the only song that was basically improvised in the studio, and the only one where the lyrics were written sort of “automatically.” They’re all ideas that have been swirling around in the collective unconscious for awhile now, pertaining to the intense state of the world: the rise of fascism, ongoing wars, financial pressure, overpopulation, media at a million miles per hour, the spectre of the algorithm, the total lack of empathy online, etc..”
Charm School
‘Debt Forever’ Tracklist
- Debt Forever
- Je t’aime (A Quoi Bon)
- Boycott Everything Everywhere
- Crime Time
- Cherry Red
- Breaking The Waves
- I Wanna Feel It
- Without A Doubt
- Youthquaker
- Figure 8
- Happiness is a Warm Sun
About Charm School
Charm School is the latest project from Andrew Sellers, a.k.a. Andrew Rinehart, and longtime collaborators Matt Filip, Drew English, & Brian Vega, along with drummer and multi-instrumentalist Jason Bemis Lawrence. The name change signals a move away from Sellers’ previous songwriting efforts (as evidenced by his recent duet with Bonnie Prince Billy) toward a much darker and more aggressive sound. Think 70s Post-Punk & No Wave mixed with 90s Post-Rock and you’ll be close.
Originally from Louisville, KY, Sellers has paid his dues in both the NYC and LA DIY music scenes, co-founding The Body Actualized Center in Bushwick and helping run the DIY venue Basic Flowers in Downtown LA.
Charm School’s 1st EP ‘Finite Jest’ was released in 2023, and their forthcoming LP (titled ‘Debt Forever’) is due out in January of 2025.
Featured image by Destiny Robb.
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https://open.spotify.com/artist/0dw0yoBLUACycC9fNcNnFl