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Boy Scouts Announce New Album 'Free Company'
Monday, June 24th, 2019

Boy Scouts Announce New Album 'Free Company'

As Boy Scouts, Oakland-based songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Taylor Vick makes the kind of music that hits like good advice from a beloved friend. It's generously warm and inviting, built atop her open, searching voice, but it doesn't shy away from tough emotional truths.

Vick's songs survey the damage that can come from loving other people with curiosity and grace. Her new album, Free Company – her first for ANTI- Records set for an August 30th release - is her most vital and incisive work yet, a stunningly tuneful rumination on heartbreak and loss that is always galloping toward the horizon. Watch Taylor perform the new song “Get Well Soon” on a couch floating through Los Angeles via balloons HERE; the video was directed by Ramez Silyan (Lil Peep).

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The album’s opener, "Get Well Soon" reckons with the difficult epiphany that comes when you've worked overtime to help someone you love, only to realize they won't meet you in the middle and help themselves. "It's a hard thing to say. You're hoping somebody will eventually feel better, but there's also this weird new distance between you. You can't do anything else, but you still really hope that they're OK," Vick says.

Her tightest and most cohesive collection of songs, Vick recorded Free Company in a tiny studio her friend Stephen Steinbrink set up inside a rented shipping container--a unique spot that ended up being perfect for her. "It's a windowless little room, but that made me feel really comfortable," she says. "We did it in the comfort of a weird, atypical recording space."

Steinbrink plays drums, synth, and bass throughout the record in addition to singing backup. It was the first time Vick had opened up her recording process to someone besides herself, and the inclusion of her friends (Rose Droll, Nikolas Soelter, and Chase Kamp also contributed to the album) helped her polish Boy Scouts' indie pop sound to a sparkle.

With a keen ear for melody and a palpable sense of empathy, Vick picks apart all the confusing and contradictory ways that people glance off of each other while moving through their lives. Her music is an invitation to shake off the weight that's been dragging you down, to lighten your step and keep moving forward no matter what lies ahead.

This fall she will tour accompany Jay Som on a nationwide US tour – all upcoming shows are listed below.


TOUR DATES
9/11 – Phoenix, AZ – The Rebel Lounge#
9/12 – San Diego, CA – Irenic#
9/13 – Los Angeles, CA – Echoplex#
9/14 – San Francisco, CA – The Fillmore#
9/17 – Vancouver, BC – The Imperial#
9/18 – Seattle, WA – Neumos#
9/19 – Portland, OR – Doug Fir Lounge#
9/20 – Boise, ID – Neurolux#
9/21 – Salt Lake City, UT – Urban Lounge#
9/24 – Denver, CO – Larimer Lounge#
9/26 – Dallas, TX – Club Dada#
9/27 – Austin, TX – Barracuda#
9/28 – Houston, TX – White Oak Music Hall#
10/15 – Lawrence, KS – Granada Theatre#
10/16 – Minneapolis, MN – 7th St Entry#
10/17 – Madison, WI – High Noon Saloon#
10/18 – Chicago, IL – Lincoln Hall#
10/19 – Columbus, OH – The Basement#
10/21 – Detroit, MI – El Club#
10/22 – Toronto, ON – Velvet Underground#
10/23 – Montreal, QC – Bar le Ritz PDB#
10/25 – Brooklyn, NY – Elsewhere#
10/26 – Cambridge, MA – The Sinclair#
10/27 – Burlington, VT – ArtsRiot#
10/29 – Philadelphia, PA – The Foundry#
10/30 – Washington DC – Rock & Roll Hotel#
10/31 – Raleigh, NC – Kings#
11/1 – Atlanta, GA – The Masquerade#
11/2 – Nashville, TN – High Watt#

# - with Jay Som

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