‘Tearing Seams‘, the first single and video from The Ides of June‘s upcoming EP of the same name, sees the nearly decade old Georgia band ratcheting their sound and songwriting to new heights.
Built on a steely riff that drips with hazy heat, the band creates a groove that sounds like a Hill Country stomp through a wall of Fender Twins. “‘Tearing Seams’ is about me and my brother,” comments singer/bassist Dusty Huggins. “But in a broader sense it’s about family conflict, how perceptions and mistrust – all based on nothing, and all wrong, of course – can strain the fabric of family and cause (sometimes irreparable) damage. It’s all about people blowing us off, not having any faith in us and saying we belonged in jail cause we were hellions. But we’re good people, we ended up on the right side of history, so to speak, so we proved them all wrong and kind of had the last laugh. When we were writing it, Alex (Gannon, lead guitar) came in with the main lick and then Eli (Browder, other lead guitar) wrote another part of it and I just started singing the chorus and we built it out from there. In the past year, as a band, we kind of had this breakthrough in our songwriting where we trust each other’s intuition and we all feel comfortable enough to just sit back and let the songs take on their own lives as we write them.”
Fusing personal stories with swampy electric blues, Muscle Shoals soul and a few fingers of whiskey, The Ides of June write the latest chapter in the grand tradition of Southern Rock, and “Tearing Seams” is only the preface for what’s to come.
