Strange Ranger Share New Track "Way Out", 'Pure Music' arrives July 21st !
Strange Ranger are amidst “their metamorphosis from indie rock to experimental electronic pop, keeping one foot in each genre with stirring, fascinating results” (Stereogum). Next month, the indie veterans will release their new album, Pure Music, out July 21st on Fire Talk, and today present its new single, “Way Out,” with an accompanying visualizer by Fiona Woodman. A Talk Talk-inspired paean to isolation, “Way Out” features a striking saxophone solo from the band’s own Nathan Tucker, and continues Strange Ranger’s occupation of a space best described as uncanny. On Pure Music, the band indulges an obsession with Loveless, but they infiltrate any comparison to shoegaze with overtures to disco, house and experimental pop. “Way Out” continues along an electric trail of singles — the “cinematic” (MTV) “She’s On Fire” and the “striking” (Paste) “Rain So Hard” — proving once again that Strange Ranger are “one of the most compelling rock bands in America” (NME).
Of “Way Out,” bandleader Isaac Eiger says: “I wrote this one while going through my memories of being a teenager in Montana and then it got all biblical for some reason. We produced it at the house in the woods and I remember feeling extremely alert, almost manic working on it late at night. At the time, we thought of it as a sort of condensed Talk Talk song, but I’m not sure if it ended up that way.”
Tomorrow, Strange Ranger will perform in Philadelphia alongside fellow experimental pop pioneers Water From Your Eyes, followed by a hometown NYC show at 4 Irving Ave with Chanel Beads. In conjunction, the band will perform a pair of Pure Music release shows on August 4th at DROM in New York and August 5th at Johnny Brenda’s in Philadelphia.
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