Decca/Vertigo are thrilled to announce The Teskey Brothers’ second album, ‘Run Home Slow’, to be released on 2nd August 2019. To celebrate, the band has revealed the album’s powerful first single and accompanying video, ‘Hold Me’.
‘Hold Me’ is a fitting introduction to what is a raw, honest and masterfully crafted album. The single sees The Teskey Brothers strip back to their most rudimentary form; boots stomping on floorboards, claps holding the beat and four friends harmonising around a single microphone while lead singer Josh Teskey rouses the pack with opening line: “That storm coming down hard, I’m your shelter anytime it starts”. It’s a primal, haunting reminder of what The Teskey Brothers can do with just their voices, hands, feet and a few instruments.
Over the 11 wide-ranging tracks on ‘Run Home Slow’, The Teskey Brothers (singer Josh Teskey, guitarist Sam Teskey, bassist Brendan Love and drummer Liam Gough) more than deliver on the promise of their much-loved first record, ‘Half Mile Harvest’ (2017), and manage to pull off a feat that has eluded many other bands. They have followed up a breakthrough debut with an album that not only pushes their music in new directions – and in the process solidifies their sound into something truly their own – but they’ve done it without sacrificing any of the charm and authenticity that endeared them to their ever-growing audience in the first place.
“We were really aware that we didn’t want to alienate fans,” Liam says. “We love our fans and feel really proud of the first album, but the second album needed to be a step up.” To help them navigate this process they enlisted the help of producer Paul Butler (Michael Kiwanuka, St Paul & The Broken Bones, Andrew Bird) who flew in to work with the band at their home studio in Warrandyte, Victoria in Australia. In Butler, The Teskey’s found both a mentor and critic who would allow them to progress sonically without losing the raw simplicity and space they had achieved on ‘Half Mile Harvest’.
Originally from The Yarra Valley just outside Melbourne, brothers Josh and Sam Teskey, with local neighbourhood friends Brendon Love and Liam Gough, all started playing together as teenagers, and it was then that they discovered their shared love of 1960’s American soul music.
On ‘Run Home Slow’, avoiding genre labels is something that the band have strived for musically, incorporating elements of southern rock, Americana, psychedelia, Dixieland jazz, gospel and a surprise striking pop centrepiece. Here, The Teskey Brothers have made an album that honours their past, resonates wonderfully in the present and looks forward to a continually brighter future.
Having sold out venues all over the country, including London’s Omeara followed by Union Chapelearlier this year as part of their UK tour, The Teskey Brothers have an impressive run of UK summer festival dates ahead, taking them to Love Supreme (6th July), Cornbury Festival (7th July), Citadel (14th July) and Latitude (19th July), to the delight of their loyal fans.
UK LIVE DATES:
6th July – Love Supreme Festival, Glynde, East Sussex
7th July – Cornbury Festival, Oxfordshire
14th July – Citadel Festival, Gunnersbury Park, London
19th July – Latitude Festival, Suffolk
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