Get excited: We're less than a month away from Two Wheels Move The Soul, the new album from Vermont's own Robber Robber. The electronically laced indie rockers wowed us with early singles "Talkback," "The Sound It Made," and "Watch For Infection." They have another advance track out today, and it certainly isn't diminishing our excitement. "Pieces" moves a little slower than some other Robber Robber songs; the combination of Carney Hemler's lurching bass and Nina Cates' eerie siren song is extremely pleasing.
Cates chimes in:
This song is about trying to get the whole thing, but only managing to get pieces of it. Or thinking you have the whole thing, and seeing it get picked apart slowly or shattered in an instant. It’s about building your dream out of rusty scrapyard bits and navigating difficult terrain with no map. Every day mental gymnastics, echolocation, wading slowly through murky water.
Connor Turque directed the "Pieces" video, which features Robber Robber onstage at Einstein's, a Burlington bar frequented by a Grateful Dead cover band. Robber Robber say it captures "the vibe of blowing a fat cloud of weed smoke at a Pink Floyd poster and looking at trichomes through a kaleidoscope," adding, "Shout out Einstein’s for letting us film in their bar."
Watch below.
Two Wheels Move The Soul is out 4/3 on Fire Talk.
