Font Announces Debut album, Shares Video For New Song “Hey Kekulé”
Strange load Out July 12 via Acrophase Records
02 May 2024
Photo: Rosie Clements
Austin's new five-piece Font have announced their debut album, Strange loadand shared his first single, “Hey Kekulé,” via a music video. Strange load is due out on July 12 via Acrophase Records. Check out the single below, followed by the tracklist and album art, as well as the band's upcoming tour dates.
The font is Thom Waddill (guitar/synth/vocals), Jack Owens (drums), Anthony Laurence (guitar/synth/sampler), Logan Wagner (percussion/sampler) and Roman Parnell (bass/synth).
Cormac McCarthy's essay 'The Kekulé Problem', about a German chemist, inspired the new single. Waddill explains more in the press release: “As with the other songs on the record, there is no intentional meaning to the symbols, references, phrases and images I use. I'm not trying to “say” anything about the subconscious — I'm just trying to channel it. And a big reason I was able to do that here was because it was one of the first songs where the five-piece machine of the band really started to hum – I had no hand in almost any of the music on the song. The rhythm, the piano part, everything came from the band and because it was a really foreign container, I could just release it and respond.”
Strange load Track List:
1. The golden calf
2. Hello Kekulé
3. Looking at the machines
4. Proposition I
5. This
6. Cattle Fri
7. Natalie's song
Font Browsing Dates:
Marry. May 29 – Phoenix, AZ @ Linger Longer Lounge
Thu May 30 – Solana Beach, CA @ Belly Up Tavern *
Fri May 31 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Regent Theater *
Sat. June 1 – Pioneertown, CA @ Pappy and Harriet's *
Mon June 3 – Santa Cruz, CA @ The Catalyst Atrium *
Tue June 4 – San Francisco, CA @ The Independent *
Thu June 6 – Portland, OR @ Mississippi Studios *
Fri June 7 – Vancouver, BC @ Rickshaw Theater *
Sat. June 8 – Seattle, WA @ The Crocodile *
Tue June 11 – Denver, CO @ Hi-Dive %
* Yard Support Act
% w/ Quintron & Miss Pussycat
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