Merchandise, the post-punk band from Tampa, Florida, are again with their first new music in 9 years. “You Shot Me Down (Single Mix)” follows the group’s 2016 album, A Corpse Wired for Sound, and it arrives through frontman Carson Cox’s new digital label, Symbol + Sound. Hear the monitor beneath.
Merchandise—the trio of singer Carson Cox, guitarist David Vassalotti, and bassist Patrick Brady—have been largely dormant since sharing A Corpse Wired for Sound and ending their tour in assist of the album in 2017. Vassalotti, in 2019, launched the solo album Guitar Dream, and Cox launched Image + Sound in Could, making Vassalotti’s Deep Space Willie his first launch on the label.
“I’ve been engaged on our sixth Lp since 2019,” Cox shared in an replace to followers. “It’s onerous to say how lengthy it ought to take to complete an album within the chaos of those previous years nevertheless it’s coming quickly, simply not fairly but. All the identical I needed to share one thing, after a very long time of radio silence.”
He continued: “This for the followers that in any case these years nonetheless ask me for brand new music. Myself and my bandmates all reside in several cities, we have now completely different reside now however i nonetheless have extra to say with this challenge. It’s loads more durable to make something work now as everyone knows however I don’t really feel like I ought to let it cease me. I do know music can nonetheless open hearts.”
Vassalotti added: “Merch ain’t useless, we’ve been slowly and steadily engaged on new materials over the previous seven years. That is only a style. Rather more to return (LP maybe). Life will get more durable, getting along with mates to be inventive will get more durable (esp w/ a thousand miles in between), nevertheless it’s nonetheless so satisfying to collaborate with my brothers on this challenge 💓.”
