PREMIERE
Hear the new single from The High Water Marks on BPM now. Fronted by Elephant 6 co-founder Hilarie Sidney, the Grøa, Norway-based foursome is set to release Ecstasy Rhymes, its first album in 13 years, via Minty Fresh on Nov. 20, 2020.
“On their new single, ‘Award Show,’” BPM writes, “the band rips through an indie barnburner that would have felt perfectly at home released sometime in the early ‘90s – I’m looking at you Foolish-era Superchunk. But as much as the song owes a debt to bands of that time, and Sidney’s own work during those years, it never comes across as beholden to a specific aesthetic. It’s classic indie rock, yeah, but there is something more coursing through its melodic veins, resulting in a wry distillation of influence and experience which few bands can express with any sense of finality.”