New York City via Philadelphia quartet Strange Ranger are releasing a new album, “Pure Music”, released through Fire Talk. Now the band have shared the album’s fourth single, “Wide Awake,” via a music video. Lola Dement Myers directed the video.
“I was thinking about these flashes of memory that stick in your head forever,” Eiger says of “Wide Awake” in a press release. “Bursts of senses that return every now and again but don’t lead anywhere beyond themselves like a GIF in your brain. It’s weird to think about what stays with you and if that’s at all related to how important the thing in question was.”
“Pure Music” includes “Rain So Hard,” a new song the band shared in March. Then when the album was announced in May, the band shared its second single, “She’s on Fire,” via a music video. Then the band shared a further track and the bands third single, “Way Out.”
“She’s on Fire” has a bit of an ’80s vibe at the start before it embraces ’90s shoegaze (the previous press release cited My Bloody Valentine’s Loveless).
“Pure Music” is the follow-up to 2019’s “Remembering the Rockets” album and 2021’s “No Light in Heaven” . The album was written while Eiger and Woodman were breaking up and was recorded in a cabin in Upstate New York during a blizzard.
“With a few exceptions, I can’t tell whose production ideas were whose, when I listen back to it,” said Nixon in a previous press release. “We were literally trapped in this cabin, manically working at all hours, and the energy was crazy, in a fun way.”
“Music makes us transcend the feeling of being alienated from or trapped by the world,” Woodman added. “I want the experience of listening to “Pure Music” to be euphoric.”
Strange Ranger is Isaac Eiger, Fiona Woodman, Nathan Tucker, and Fred Nixon.
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