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San Francisco experimental rock band Oxbow announce new album 'Love's Holiday'

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San Francisco experimental rock band Oxbow will unveil their eighth studio album this summer.

Announced yesterday, the 10-track effort titled Love’s Holiday will be released on July 21 via Ipecac Recordings. The first single from the album titled “1000 Hours,” which features keyboardist/singer Roger Joseph Manning Jr. (Beck, Jellyfish), comes with a music video directed by John David Levy. Oxbow vocalist Eugene Robinson said this about the new song and video:

“’1000 Hours’ for the OXBOW completist, 100 percent ties into our other song “1000,’ thematically in my mind. But filming the video, given that I just had surgery a few days before, felt very much like Mann’s ‘Death in Venice’ to me. You know where waiting to die never felt more beautiful, which really feels like the essence of love. Or at least one of them.”

Guitarist Niko Wenner also said:

“’1000 Hours’ began life with the bright, extroverted feel you hear most, but inevitably the darker introspective mood of the coda and intro emerged. Both qualities are essential to Love’s Holiday. Roger (backing vocals), John (video director) and Joe Chiccarelli (co-producer of Love’s Holiday with Wenner) all did extraordinary work to heighten these emotions.”

Love's Holiday can be pre-ordered here right now.

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Love’s Holiday tracklisting:

1. Dead Ahead

2. Icy White & Crystalline

3. Lovely Murk

4. 1000 Hours

5. All Gone

6. The Night The Room Started Burning

7. “ “

8. Million Dollar Weekend

9. The Second Talk

10. Gunwale

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