PACKS Shares New Single "Brown Eyes", Sophomore album 'Crispy Crunchy Nothing' out March 31st
Today we’re thrilled to share a new track "Brown Eyes" from PACKS! Stream it & watch the band's self-directed music video.
“Brown Eyes” is the third single from PACKS’ new album available digitally and on vinyl on Fire Talk, a burst of sludgy slacker rock that holds a low key sense of menace beneath its sunny exterior.
Mixed by Nick Kinsey (Kevin Morby), & mastered by Sarah Register (Big Thief), Crispy Crunchy Nothing has more charmingly playful anecdotes while feeling more polished & delightfully languid than ever Earning consigns from Brooklyn Vegan, Consequence of Sound, Stereogum & more, "one listen of PACKS and you’re sure to be endeared" (Alternative Press).
Maddie notes: "I had lots of fun writing this song because it’s a simple rock song about falling in love disorientatingly hard and fast. Disorientationally? Disorientably? Love disorients me."
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‘Crispy Crunchy Nothing’ puts to rest any notion Madeline Link had about finding the end. Burnout, dead-end jobs, bike theft, stress dreams, heartbreak — PACKS move forward through them all one line, one lick, one beat at a time, equal parts Alex G’s whimsy and Helvetia’s thunderous dynamics. Sticking together songs written in Toronto, Ottawa and Mexico City (while Madeline completed a papier-mâché residency), Crispy Crunchy Nothing revisits the fuzzy alt-rock of 2021 debut Take the Cake and adds some folksy twang to the mix for an album that explores the tension between independence and isolation, between living life to the fullest and feeling like you’re wasting your time. Influenced by country-tinged contemporaries like Renee Reed and Angel Olsen and Madeline’s lockdown-era listening sessions with her dad, of albums by Hank Locklin and Hank Williams. Crispy Crunchy Nothing is heavy, and Madeline makes little effort to hide the depths of her feelings. But after the rain, flowers peek up from the soil. “Laughing Till I Cry,” a reject from a commercial, recalls fond memories of spending time with her sister: “Sometimes, I feel like life is on my side.” And “Always Be a Kid,” jangling and swaying with the Nashville guitar in the foreground, keeps her chasing those smaller Matryoshka dolls, looking for companionship but settling for herself in the meantime. “So now, I feel alive,” she repeats, over and over again. And by the end, it sounds like she’s starting to believe it.