Taken from their forthcoming album Zion, watch Drunk Driver, the new video from Wilder Maker, the songwriting project of Gabriel Birnbaum. Also our Song of the Day.
Gabriel shared the following on Drunk Driver:
“Multi-instrumentalist Katie Von Schleicher takes her turn on lead vocals for “Drunk Driver” – a song about a total emotional crisis happening, as it often does, in a very mundane environment, where the incredible tension between the feeling of having just been gutted and the sight of the people around you going about their evenings – trying to get drunk, get laid, connect – can make you lose it. It’s the gulf between the very normal day you thought you’d been having, and the disastrous one you are actually living. For a moment, your two selves look each other in the eye as one of them becomes someone else.”
The album is set for release on July 13th via Northern Spy Records who describe Drunk Driver as “Taking cues from Richard & Linda Thompson’s 70s cynical folk-rock as well as Fleetwood Mac at their bleakest (think “The Chain”), “Drunk Driver” is 5 minutes of escalating tension with an infectiousness that keeps the listener coming back.”
James Joyce once said that if all of Dublin was destroyed, they ought to be able to rebuild it brick by brick just from reading his novels. Wilder Maker’s Zion is the first chapter in a musical novel that makes the same claim for Brooklyn, NY. Written by guitarist / saxophonist / singer Gabriel Birnbaum and brought to life with long time collaborators Katie Von Schleicher, Nick Jost (Baroness), Adam Brisbin (Sam Evian, Jolie Holland) and Sean Mullins, Zion is a kaleidoscopic snapshot of years hustling for a break in New York City: waking up at 5 am to pour coffee for the brownstone-owning elite, waiting for a drug dealer on a city bench outside a blurry house party, moving catastrophically from apartment to apartment in the garbage scented heat, glimpsing euphoria through the ritual of taking your place among the anonymous crowd at a music festival, having your heart shattered in front of an audience at a bar, drunkenly contemplating bodega window displays, circling ever closer to something that could either be perfection or the drain, depending on the day.
Pre-order Zion: http://smarturl.it/WilderMakerZion
Visit the Northern Spy Records website: https://northernspyrecs.com/