Indie Singer/ Songwriter CHRIS STAPLES Reveals New Single from Upcoming Album!
Cloud Souvenirs is the sixth full length album by American songwriter Chris Staples, out May 26th on Hot Tub Recordings. The ten songs spun from accumulated memory and flashes of insight into the hidden corners of life.
Recorded in the midst of travel back and forth to Florida to deal with his mother’s declining health, Staples built an unselfconscious masterpiece, a cathartic and complete expression of his craft. Cloud Souvenirs is a parade of sculpted moments, some light and airy, some gray and heavy with rain– variations on beauty, tenderness, grief and unexpected joy.
Today Chris Staples shared the third single from Souvenirs titled Bulldozer Mouth!
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Chris Staples - Bulldozer Mouth (official single):
What is gone is all still here. Florida is a place steeped in memories and significance for Staples, landscape, humidity, shapes in the sky, intangible tokens of youth. He worked on the album intermittently during these visits, but had to cancel recording sessions to take his mother to the hospital. Her ever present piano playing around the house was a key to finding music. Her loss is a reality impossible to express.
Cloud Souvenirs is laced with insistent phrases and melody lines that linger long after listening. Songs that hint at narrative without being weighed down by unnecessary detail. Evocative and economical, melancholic and magical. Songs that nourish life and encourage self-reflection. Pulsing electronica, acoustic strummers, synth stabs, dry snare drums setting the pace, clear melodies fill the sky, no rain for days.
Staples is more pop artist than an indie singer, a poet and craftsman working in an independent tradition and at a human scale. A twelve-string guitar or warbling effect pedal, a buoyant brass arrangement, a passage of vocal harmony–this pleasing sonic tapestry is anchored by his warm voice and naturalistic lyricism. Staples enlisted a hometown friend, producer Jeremy SH Griffith, to bring a fresh perspective to ten years of self-recording, their easy collaboration shines on each crisp and devastating track.
Cloud Souvenirs is released May 26th on Hot Tub Recordings. Pre-order it here: https://www.chrisstaplesmusic.com/store
Chris will be on EU/ UK tour this fall, please spread these tourdates:
09/16 - SE STOCKHOLM, SE / STADSTEATERN (only Chris)
09/18 - ZURICH, CH / EL LOKAL (only Chris)
09/19 - LONDON, UK / OSLO
09/20 - NEWCASTLE, UK / THE GROVE
09/21 - GLASGOW, UK / BROADCAST
09/22 - EDINBURGH, UK / SNEAKY PETE'S
09/23 - SHEFFIELD, UK / THE FLY TOWER
09/24 - DUBLIN, IE / SUGAR CLUB
09/25 - MANCHESTER, UK / GULLIVERS
09/27 - PARIS, FR / L'ARCHIPEL
09/28 - ROTTERDAM, NL / THEATER WALHALLA
09/29 - BERLIN, DE / MARIE ANTOINETTE
09/30 - ZWOLLE, NL / THEODORAKAPEL
10/01 - HAMBURG, DE / AALHAUS
10/02 - FLENSBURG, DE / NORDER147
10/03 - MÜNSTER, DE / PENSION SCHMIDT
Artist: Chris Staples
Title: Cloud Souvenirs
Format: LP, Digital
Label: Hot Tub Recordings
Genre: Singer-Songwriter/ Indie
Release Date: 26/05/2023
